Dillon Lue, second-year BME student, and Zhiwen Xu, first-year Biology student were awarded the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. This is an award given to only 40 undergraduate students around the university every year. Dillon and Zhiwen join Lisa, Rita, and Ngozi as the latest Harrison Awardees. Congratulations to all of them.
Lab members celebrated a successful 2019.
Noah Perry, who graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and Yonathan Aberra, who graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of California Irvine, joined the lab as PhD students.
Civelek Lab is the undisputed champion of the 2019 Systems Biology Club Volleyball Tournament
Dr. Qianyi Yang joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. She is a molecular biologist who comes to our lab from another postdoc position in Washington University St Louis. She will work on adipose tissue-related projects in the laboratory.
Our lab received a joint grant from NSF with Farzad Hassanzadeh of UVA Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to characterize the local sequence context dependent errors in synthesis, replication, and sequencing of DNA and identify a mathematical model to correct these errors for data storage purposes.
Our lab is now part of an international consortium funded by the Fondation Leducq: PlaqOmics Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms that lead to atherosclerotic plaque instability.
Our lab is officially funded by an R01 grant from the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. This grant will support our work in adipose biology.
