Image: Congratulations to the following graduate students on their impressive achievements and academic excellence! Megan Aarnio University of Georgia Graduate school travel award, 2013 Invited speaker for Society of Glycobiology Annual Meeting, 2013 Sandii Brimble, Ph.D Graduated from the Wells' laboratory; accepted instructor position in the Biology Department at UGA. Whitney Bullard NIH T32 predoctoral fellowship, 2014 University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Award, 2014 Eric DeJesus ARCS Foundation Global Impact Award, 2013 Sean Durning, Ph.D Graduated from the Wells' laboratory; accepted a post-doctoral fellowship in Immunobiology at Yale, 2014 Matt Furgerson ARCS Foundation Award, 2013 Mary Erlanger Fellowship, 2013 Graduate School Teaching Fellowship, 2012, 2013 Internship with the Technology Commercialization Office at UGA, 2014 Graduated from the Fechheimer laboratory; accepted research position at Sanofi/Genzyme, 2014 Matt Keller ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Student Program, 2013 Institute of Chemical Engineer (IChemE) Energy award finalist, 2013 Varshika Kotu University of Georgia Graduate school travel award, 2013 Joseph LaMattina University of Georgia Graduate school travel award, 2013, 2014 Sonali Majumdar Travel award, Cold Spring Harbor Lab Regulatory RNA meeting, 2014 Travel award, Annual CRISPR meeting, UC Berkeley, 2011 Publications: Caryn R. Hale, Sonali Majumdar, Joshua Elmore, Neil Pfister, Mark Compton, Sara Olson, A.M. Resch, Claiborne V. Glover, Brenton Graveley, Rebecca M. Terns, Michael P. Terns. (2012) Essential Features and Rational Design of CRISPR RNAs that Function with the Cas RAMP Module Complex to Cleave RNAs. Molecular Cell, 45(3): 292-302 Nickita Mehta Invited Plenary speaker for the Annual Drosophila conference, 2014 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental poster award, 2014 University of Georgia Graduate school travel award, 2014 Society for Glycobiology, Travel award, 2013 Invited speaker for the pre-conference for Glycobiology, 2013 Jessica Mitchell Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental poster award, 2014 Invited platform speaker for GSA Yeast Genetics Meeting, 2014 David Nix Visited the NIH for training, 2014 Invited Seminar Speaker at Georgia College, 2014 Visited John’s Hopkins for training, 2014 Workshop faculty for Analytical Glycobiology Training, 2013 Visited the University of New Hampshire for training, 2013 Nix, D. B., Kumagai, T., Katoh, T., Tiemeyer, M., Aoki, K. Improved In-Gel Reductive β-Elimination for Comprehensive O-Linked and Sulfo-Glycomics by Mass Spectrometry. J. Vis. Exp. (), e51840, doi:10.3791/51840 (2014) David Reynolds Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental poster award, 2014 Received a $52,000 pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to explore epigenetic regulation of gene expression in the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. This protozoan causes Chagas disease, which is a major cause of cardiac disease in South and Central America. David will study the role of a DNA base found within the parasite known as base J. Previous studies indicate that disruption of base J synthesis leads to changes in gene expression and renders T. cruzi defective in host cell invasion and egress. Work conducted under this grant will continue their investigation into what may be an important therapeutic target against Chagas disease. University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Award, 2014 Invited speaker for Molecular Parasitology Annual Meeting, 2014 Amanda Rhaesa Invited student speaker at BESC annual scientific retreat in Chattanooga TN NSF GRFP Honorable Mention April 2014. Chin Fen Teo, Ph.D Graduated from the Wells' laboratory; accepted a Howard Hughes Medical Institute post-doctoral fellowship at University California, San Francisco, 2014 Krithika Vaidyanathan, Ph.D Graduated from the Wells' laboratory; accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the Sanford-Burnham Institute in San Diego, CA, 2014 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departmental poster award, 2014 Best Poster Award at NIH Glycobiology Day in Bethesda, MD, 2014 Travel award from the Society for Glycobiology to attend annual meeting in St. Petersburg, FL, 2013 Society for Glycobiology Travel Award, 2013 Jonathan Viola University of Georgia Graduate School travel award, 2014 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center travel award, 2014 Tony Szempruch American Society for Cell Biology Local Meeting Grant for the Second Annual Cell Biology of Eukaryotic Pathogens Symposium at Clemson University, 2014 University of Georgia Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Poster Award, 2014 University of Georgia Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute University of Liverpool Fellowship, 2014 University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Award, 2014 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Frontiers in Biochemistry Symposium Poster Award, 2014 RNA Society Travel Award, 2013 University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Award, 2013 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Endowed Scholarship to Attend the Biology of Parasitism Course at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, 2013 Hyowon Ahn Southeastern Regional Yeast Meeting travel award, 2013 Yeast genetics meeting travel award, 2014 University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Award, 2014 David Thieker Complex Carbohydrate Research Center travel award, 2012 Publication: Meng, L., Forouhar, F., Thieker, D., Gao, Z., Ramiah, A., Moniz, H., & ... Moremen, K. (2013). Enzymatic basis for N-glycan sialylation: structure of rat α2,6-sialyltransferase (ST6GAL1) reveainls conserved and unique features for glycan sialylation. The Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 288(48), 34680-34698. doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.519041 University of Georgia Graduate School travel award, 2014 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center travel award, 2014 2nd place at the HealthCare Hackathon in Atlanta, GA, 8/2015 Jeremy Praissman Publication: Praissman JL, Wells L. Mammalian O-mannosylation pathway: glycan structures, enzymes, and protein substrates. Biochemistry. 2014;53(19):3066-78. doi: 10.1021/bi500153y. PubMed PMID: 24786756; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4033628. Society for Glycobiology travel award, 2014 Agniva Saha Genetics Society of America GSA travel award, 2014 University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Award, 2014 Poster presentation award by BCMB department at CCRC 2014
