Graduate Program in Genetics & Genomics

Elyse Kozlowski presents platform talk at Keystone Conference

Nancy S Roy — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:30:17 +0000

GPGG graduate student Elyse Kozlowski (third year, Jones Lab) recently attended the Noncoding RNAs in Cancer and Development (Keystone Conference) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Pictured below is Elyse being introduced by Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp prior to presenting presenting a talk titled “Widespread uridylation of mature microRNAs by Zcchc11 governs murine growth and survival.” Picture taken from her Major Professor’s iPad.

Rebecca Kusko featured in BU Today story

Nancy S Roy — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:38:19 +0000

GPGG graduate student, Rebecca Kusko’s (fourth year) research focuses on lung cancer in a nonsmoker population. She and her advisor, Dr. Avrum Spira were recently featured in a story in Health and Wellness in BU Today.

2012 GSI Research Symposium

Nancy S Roy — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:12:43 +0000

Students in the Graduate Program for Genetics and Genomics attended the 2012 Genome Science Research Symposium held on the Boston Medical School Campus in October.

Two students won awards for Oral Presentations:

Hila Milo Rasouly (W. Lu Lab) – Loss of Robo2 improves survival of ILK mutant mice

Kristen Ott (Navarro Lab) – Characterizing spindle-E, a protein involved in guarding the genome

Two students won awards for Poster Presentations:

Carly Garrison ( Spira Lab) - Mir-4423 promoted ciliated cell fate during airway epithelium differentiation

Rebecca Kusko (Spira Lab) - Comprehensive genomic profiling of the lung transcriptome in emphysema and IPF using RNA-Seq

Haldan Smith — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:27:07 +0000

The 2nd Annual GSI Research Symposium has come and gone this October. Hundreds of faculty, staff, and students stopped by the Heibert Lounge to support genetic and genomic research at Boston University.

The GPGG would like to congratulate our students who received awards:

Poster Award: Kristen Ott

Oral Presentations: Constantina Christodoulou, Rebecca Kusko, and Catalina Perdomo

The GSI Symposium Award Recipients: (top row) Elizabeth Tanner, Badri Vardarajan, Stephanie Correa, Rebecca Kusko, Constantina Christodoulou, Kristen Ott, Stephanie Schneider, Daniel Dworkis; (front row) Catalina Perdomo, Irene Degano, Stephanie van Veen, Cody MacDonald.