The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) recently announced 12 ISU graduate students will receive $120,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship Program funding to support strategic university research over the next year. Two of the 12 students are genetics, development and cell biology (GDCB) graduate students: Jacinta Correia in the Bai lab and Brian Zebosi in the Vollbrecht lab.

Undergraduate Maia Lawson, who is double majoring in microbiology and genetics, received the fall 2021 Academic Achievement Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Student Council.

Learn more about Lawson in the CALS article, "CALS Council Senior Awardee: Lawson receives Academic Achievement Award."

The Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) announces the Spring 2022 GDCB Graduate Student-Postdoc-Staff Seminar Series. The seminar is held online on Fridays at 4:10 p.m. Ephraim Aliu, a graduate student in the Department of Agronomy’s Wang Lab, will present the first seminar in the spring series, “CRISPR RNA-guided Integrase system for Agrobacterium genome editing,” on Friday, Feb. 4, at 4:10 p.m.  

Feb. 4 meeting link — https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?MTID=m329a6beaa4ce6a143b45a01d88dccf35

The Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology announces its Spring 2022 Seminar Series. Flyers with more information about the speakers, titles and abstracts will be distributed weekly.