The Roy Laboratory
2022
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Akshay Patel received 1st prize in the Bioscience Day poster presentation
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Akshay Patel earned two awards, the Philip J. Provost Graduate Fellowship Award & the MOCB-BISI M. Zain-Ul-Abedin Memorial Scholarship.
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Molly Maranto has successfully defended her undergraduate Honors thesis in the CBMG Dept
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Akshay Patel presented his work in the MA-SDB meeting
2020
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Alex has been awarded Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is for dissertations completed in 2019. The Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline.
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Lijuan was selected to give a talk in TAGC (The Allied Genetics Conference) 2020 virtual conference held by GSA. Concurrent thematic session: Developmental Genetics: Cell Specification and Competition. (Talk: Dynamic self-generation of FGF morphogen gradients by cytonemes during Drosophila tracheal patterning. Lijuan Du, University of Maryland.)
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Yujia has been awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2020.
2019
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Congratulations to Alex for successfully defending the Ph.D. thesis.
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Congratulations to Akshay Patel for receiving CMNS Dean's Match of the Cell and Molecular Biology T32 training grant.
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Akshay received Dean's fellowship, and Akshay received summer fellowships ---Congrats!
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Roylab received an NIH R35 grant supplement to purchase a state-of-the-art confocal microscope.
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Congratulations to Alex Sohr for receiving Award of Excellence for Best Talk in Molecular and Cell Biology Biological Sciences Graduate Program retreat.
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PUBLICATION: Congratulations to Alex for his paper in Bio-protocol "Ex vivo Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc Culture and Furin Inhibitor Assay."
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Way to go with a highlight in the cover page of the journal!
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Congratulations to Lijuan Du as her work was recognized and highlighted as one of the eight great post-doctoral works by The Society for Developmental Biology. Lijuan presented the research at the prestigious Hilde Mangold Symposium at the 78th SDB Annual Meeting, Boston.
Meet the Hilde Mangold Symposium speaker, Lijuan Du from our lab at the 78th Annual SDB meeting, Boston.
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Congratulations to Lijuan Du for receiving a travel award from the Society of Developmental Biology.
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Congratulations to Alex Sohr for receiving the Andrew Moyer Award as an outstanding graduate student from the CBMG Dept.
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Congratulations to Alex Sohr for receiving the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.
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Sougata presented a concept talk at the 119th International Titisee Conference, Germany on Tissue formation and regeneration: from molecules to models.
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Sougata Roy was invited to present the research on the mechanism of cytoneme-mediated FGF gradient formation at the Mid Atlantic SDB meeting (https://www.masdb.psu.edu/speakers/); Lijuan and Alex presented their research as well.
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Alex Sohr presented his new research findings on FGF signaling in the annual AAAS meeting.
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Sougata Roy talked on the formation of FGF morphogen gradient in the FGF in Development and Repair Conference, Nassau, Bahama.
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Received a poster award as well!
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PUBLICATION: Congratulations to Alex for the publication in the Journal of Cell Biology (http://jcb.rupress.org/content/218/5/1653.abstract).
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We welcome our two new PhD students, Akshay and Ahana.
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Congratulations to Akshay Patel for his NIH CMB training grant fellowship award.
2018
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Congratulations to Lijuan for winning the best post-doc research presentation award in the Mid-Atlantic Society for Developmental Biology meeting.
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Lijuan Du and Alex Sohr presented research in the Annual Drosophila Research Conference and Annual Society for Developmental Biology meeting.
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Sougata Roy presented in the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology conference, Santa Cruz, CA.
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PUBLICATION: Congratulations to Lijuan for the Elife paper "Feedback regulation of cytoneme-mediated transport shapes a tissue-specific FGF morphogen gradient" (https://elifesciences.org/articles/38137)!
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Way to go with a highlight in the volume cover
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PUBLICATION: Congratulations to Lijuan for the JoVE paper (https://www.jove.com/video/58268/an-efficient-strategy-for-generating-tissue-specific-binary)!
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PUBLICATION: A book chapter in the Methods in Molecular Biology is now published!
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FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS: Congratulations to Yujia Li for receiving Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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THESIS: (i) Congrats to Hind Hitti, a visiting post-graduate student from the Saint-Joseph University (USJ), Lebanon, for successfully completing her six months internship and post-graduate research thesis.
(ii) Congrats to Mishal Rao for completing her undergraduate research dissertation with a distinction. She did an excellent undergraduate research in our lab over the last three years!
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Akshay and Mishal, two talented undergraduate researchers in the lab, graduated today... Congrats!
2017
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Congratulations to Lijuan, her abstract is selected for talk in Minisymposium session "Multicellular Interactions: Tissue Assembly and Morphogenesis" at the annual ASCB-EMBO meeting (2017)
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AWARDS: Congratulations to Lijuan for receiving American Society for Cell Biology travel award for the annual ASCB-EMBO meeting.
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PUBLICATIONS: Lijuan, Amy, Akshay, Mishal, Kelsey got their paper published in Developmental Biology - Congrats!
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FUNDING: Roy lab received MIRA (ESI) R35 Outstanding Investigator Award for five years from NIH/NIGMS (Sept 2017-2022).
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Congratulations to Alex for receiving Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, 2017.
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Amy Zhou, first undergraduate student in the lab, graduated today.. Congrats!!
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We welcome our new PhD student, Yujia Li.
2015
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FELLOWSHIP: Congratulations to Alex for receiving a Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant Fellowship for the 2015/16 academic year.
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FUNDING: Roylab is funded by NIH/NHLBI R00 grant awarded till August 2017.