It has been a productive Fall for the Goll lab with TWO students defending their thesis. Congratulations to Audrey Calvird, who has now started a position as a licensing associate in the technology transfer office at Georgia Tech, and Alysha Higgs who is now a Scientist at LGC clinical diagnostics! Also welcome to Garren Davis, a former UGA undergraduate who is now working as our lab manager, and Shaelin Lin and Tod Butenschon, the latest undergraduates to join our team!
Lab news round up: Summer 2022
It has been a fun and productive spring for the Goll lab, with lots of good news! Congratulations to Ashely Aris for being Awarded a NIH T32 Traineeship and Katie Duval for being Awarded the Jan and Kirby Alton Fellowship (a top honor from the UGA Genetics department)! Congrats to Audrey Calvird for her first author publication, which includes contributions from many lab members past and present! Also congrats to Katie Duval for being awarded a best poster prize at the EMBO Chromatin and Evolution meeting which took place in Aarhus, Denmark. Audrey Calvird completed an internship with the Innovation Gateway here at UGA, and has accepted a position as a licensing research associate at Georgia Tech ( she’ll start as soon as she graduates) ! We are very proud of double dawgs student Anvith Reddy for defending his master thesis, he’ll go on to an MD/PHD program at Vanderbilt this fall. Also congratulations to undergraduates Morgan Broniec, Annabel Crippen, and Danielle Obiri, who successfully graduated and will be headed to Medical School this Fall. GO TEAM!
Welcome Ashley and Evelyn!
Welcome to our newest graduate students Ashley Artis and Evelyn Baaba Quansah! We are so excited to have you on our team!!!!!!!!!!
Belated Welcome to Ashley
A belated welcome to our first rotation student of 2021, Ashley Artis! We hope to recruit two students this year so please reach out if you are interested in joining our team!
New Funding for the Goll lab!
We’ve just received Notice of Awards from the NIH for an R35 to study chromatin regulation and function during early vertebrate embryogenesis, and an R21 to study the impact of early toxicant exposure on chromatin regulation !!! We are now very well funded for the next 5 years and we are hiring!!!!
Welcome summer students
Welcome to our summer undergraduate students! Morgan McGrath (SUNFIG REU), Lauren Ha (UGA) and Vani Arora
Congratulations Anvith
Congratulations undergraduate Anvith for successfully graduating from UGA, and for winning the Genetics Department Award for best undergraduate thesis! Lucky for us Anvith will be sticking around to complete a 1 year masters thesis as part of the Double Dawgs program!
We wrote a review!
Congratulations to Bagde Akdogan and Katie Duval on their review: Chromatin dynamics at the maternal to zygotic transition: recent advances from the zebrafish model
check it out here: https://f1000research.com/articles/9-299
A belated congratulations to Katie Duval!
A belated congratulations to Katie Duval who was awarded an ARCs foundation fellowship and the Linton and June Bishop Graduate fellowship Award this past year. NICE WORK KATIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome Chauncey
Welcome to our new Lab technician Chauncy!!!!! Chauncy was a former REU student in our laboratory, and we are very happy to welcome him back to our group!