Awards and recognition of faculty, staff, students and alumni of the CWRU Biology department.

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Congratulations Graduate Symposium 2025 Presentation Award Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of this year's best graduate student presentations. Osmary Medina-Baez: Assessing vulnerability of butterflies to climate change in Ohio using their physiological tolerances. Best Talk Taiwo Mercy Faloni: Beyond the Ice: Viral Community Dynamics Across Permafrost Thaw Gradients. Best Lightning Talk Suneeti Madhavan: FASNated by fat: WNT signaling activation causes early decline of de-novo...

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Biology Undergraduate Ayah Lababede Awarded First Place at Intersections

Ayah Lababede, an undergraduate student working in the Crown Lab, was among the first place winners for the Fall 2024 Intersections for her poster titled “Two Possible Triggering Mechanisms of pch2-dependent Pachytene Checkpoint That Induce Interchromosomal Effect”. A description of her project is below: Crossover formation enables the reciprocal exchange...

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Biology Graduate Student Alicia Matthews Wins Abstract Achievement Award at American Society of Hematology Conference

Alicia Matthews, a 3rd year PhD student from Dr. Fortenberry’s lab, was selected to present her research at the 66th American Society of Hematology (ASH) exposition. Her research entailed a novel aptamer-based sickle-cell disease therapeutic that targets polymer formation in sickled red blood cells titled “The Intracellular Effects of...

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