Civelek Lab is the undisputed champion of the 2019 Systems Biology Club Volleyball Tournament
Civelek Lab is the undisputed champion of the 2019 Systems Biology Club Volleyball Tournament
Civelek Lab has been awarded a three-year Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association. The title of the award is “Genetic Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Gene Expression.”
Jewel and Lisa graduated with a degree in Biology and Biomedical Engineering, respectively. Jewel will be attending a PREP program at the University of Georgia and Lisa will do a design-focused Biomedical Engineering MS program at UVA.
Mete was awarded the “Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year” by the UVA Office of Undergraduate Research. He was nominated for this award by Lisa, Ngozi, and Rita. See the news about this award.
Mete represented the Genetics Society of America as part of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Capitol Hill Day to lobby Virginia lawmakers to increase funding for NIH and NSF.
Rita Anane-Wae and Sarah Innis, both second year BME students, were awarded the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. Rita will work with Redouane over the summer and Sarah will be part of the summer Diabetes Research Program at UVA.
Our laboratory was awarded a three-year Innovative Basic Sciences grant from the American Diabetes Association entitled “Dissecting the KLF14-regulated transcriptional network in adipocytes.” See the news about the grant.
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.
