GDCB faculty and additional recognitions

Around 100 faculty, staff, students, and other invited guests of the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology gathered together to celebrate the achievements of their colleagues over the past year at the 2024 GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon on May 2. Photos are by Abhas Bhatt.

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(Top photo) Faculty, staff, postdocs and students received departmental awards at the luncheon. From left are Aron Nakama, teaching staff; Fang Liu, postdoc; Ankur Kumar, graduate student; Jinoh Kim, postdoc; Ping Kang, adjunct faculty; Inga Baldus, undergraduate; and Panchali Chakraborty, graduate student. Carla Harris, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences staff, also received an award.

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(Left photo) GDCB Assistant Teaching Professor Renu Srivastava (right) received a GDCB Teaching Award at the GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon. GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin congratulates her. GDCB Professor Jeff Essner received a GDCB Research Award.

(Center photo) GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin welcomes the audience to the 2024 GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon on May 2 in the Molecular Biology Building atrium.

(Right photo) The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences named GDCB Associate Teaching Professor Jelena Kraft (left) and GDCB Assistant Professor Dior Kelley to the CALS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows (2024 cohort). GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin congratulates Kraft.

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(Photo on left) The GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon honored GDCB faculty who received promotions recently. From left are GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin; Jelena Kraft to associate teaching professor; Carly Manz to teaching professor; Maura McGrail to professor; and Geetu Tuteja to professor.  

(Photo on right) The Undergraduate Support Team for biology and genetics was recognized at the GDCB Honors and Awards Recognition Luncheon in May. From left are GDCB Chair Yanhai Yin, Lauren Ramos, Alexis Atkinson and Alison Esser. Others on the team are Zack Bonner, Em Kapler, Allison Manz and Norah Warchola.

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(Left photo) The Office of the Vice President for Research named GDCB faculty member Geetu Tuteja a Research Faculty Fellow, and she was named the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship.

(Center photo) The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences presented GDCB Assistant Professor Raquel Espin Palazon with the Faculty Early Achievement in Research Award.

(Right photo) GDCB Associate Professor Mohan Gupta is the recipient of an LAS Frontier Science Fund.