September 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology IT Specialist Eric Rzeszut.  He was recently named a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, part of a select group chosen to take this training and exam here at UAB.

August 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology professor Dr. Rosa Serra.  The work of Dr. Serra and her laboratory was highlighted in a recent editorial article in the journal Breast Cancer Research.

July 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology  post-doctoral fellow Yun-Ju (Jocelyn) Lai, in the laboratory of Dr. Fannie Lin.  Jocelyn recently received a Career Enhancement Award from the UAB Office of Post-Doctoral Education.

June 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology professor Dr. Elizabeth Sztul.  For the May 2009 issue of the ASCB Newsletter, Dr. Sztul wrote the "Women in Cell Biology" feature article, describing her recent yearlong experience as a rotating program director for the National Science Foundation.

   

  Dr. Sztul's career and research was also highlighted in the May 2009 "ASCB Profile."

May 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology professor Dr. Bradley Yoder, whose research was highlighted in a recent New York Times article: Antenna on Cell Surface Is Key to Development and Disease

April 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology student Subhashini Bolisetty (laboratory of Dr. Anupam Agarwal), who won Best Cell Biology Poster Presentation and 2nd place among all presentations at this year's National Student Research Forum for her presentation Role of Heme Oxygenase-1 in Cisplatin-mediated Autophagy in Kidney Epithelial cells.

March 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology student Stephen Jordan (laboratory of Dr. Julian Rayner) who has been selected to receive the 2009 Dean's Award as the Joint Health Sciences Outstanding Student.
• Congratulations to Cell Biology Assistant Professor Dr. Laura Cotlin, who has been selected as the 2009 Joint Health Sciences recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. 
  

February 2009

• Congratulations to Cell Biology Post Doctoral Fellows Melanie Styers (lab of Dr. Elizabeth Sztul) and Yun-Ju Lai (lab of Dr. Fannie Lin), who won second and third place awards, respectively, at the 2009 UAB Postdoctoral Research Day.

January 2009

• The Department of Cell Biology is proud to host the 2009 Southeastern Regional Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting in March 2009. Faculty co-chairs are Dr. Brad Yoder, Dr. Rosa Serra, and Dr. Chenbei Chang.
  

October 2008

• Congratulations to Dr. Etty (Tika) Benveniste, Professor and Chairman of Cell Biology.  Dr. Benveniste has been named the inaugural holder of the Alma B. Maxwell UAHSF Endowed Chair. (click to read more)

August 2008

• Congratulations to  Dr. Elizabeth Sztul, Professor of Cell Biology. Dr. Sztul has been elected to a 3-year term on the council of the American Society of Cell Biology.

July 2008

• Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Miller. His research into signaling methodologies in the C. elegans worm was recently featured in a "Your Health" segment on the Fox6 evening news.  Click here to watch the report.

June 2008

• Congratulations to faculty member Dr. Laura Cotlin.  Dr. Cotlin recently recieved a School of Medicine Argus Award from the class of 2001 as "Best Introductory Module: Fundamental I" and "Best Introductory Module Director." In addition, faculty members Dr. Jim Collawn, Dr. George Salter, and Dr. Shane Tubbs were nominated for "Best Lecturer." 
• Congratulations to Subhashini "Pria" Bolisetty, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Anupam Agarwal.  Pria has been awarded a two-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association for her grant "Site-specific Overexpression of Heme Oxygenase-1 in Acute Kidney Injury."
• Congratulations to Stephen Jordan, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Julian Rayner. Stephen won the Department of Medicine's Samuel B. Barker Award for his presentation of "Determination of the Optimal Domain for Inclusion in a PfMSP3-based Malaria Vaccine." 

May 2008 

• Congratulations to Melanie Styers, a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Sztul. Melanie received a fellowship from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for her grant "Characterizing Mechanisms that Regulate Cdc42 Activation in Breast Cancer."  
• Congratulations to Xueyan (Snow) Zhao, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Tika Benveniste, for winning the 2007 FEBS Journal Prize for her paper "The interferon-stimulated gene factor 3 complex mediates the inhibitory effect of interferon-β on matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression."