Simcox Awarded Distinguished University Service Award!
Dr. Amanda Simcox was one of three outstanding scholars and
educators who received the Faculty Award for Distinguished University Service, recognizing service that significantly affects the quality of the University. Amanda demonstrates a remarkable record of service to her students, department, the Arts and Sciences, the university, and local and global constituencies.
Amanda Simcox engages in extensive, comprehensive service activities around campus, the surrounding community and around the world. Simcox is always all about students. As the Honor’s advisor in molecular genetics, she provides the same personal attention to 50 undergraduates that she does to her graduate students. She started a club for molecular genetics majors in 1999 and is still its advisor. Simcox will go anywhere and do anything to promote an interest in science. For more than a decade, Simcox and her undergraduate students have taken exciting molecular science to Columbus Public High Schools. Using a DNA fingerprinting unit Simcox invented, high school students are challenged to solve a “crime-scene investigation scenario.” Simcox and biochemistry colleague Venkat Gopalan, have generated NSF-funded summer research experiences for disadvantaged and underrepresented students since 2005. Recently, they created an interactive, teleconferencing science course for Ohio State students and Indian counterparts, which will be repeated in the fall. Last December, they went to India to offer workshops on “Tools for success beyond the laboratory bench.”
Monday, April 5 2010
Harold Fisk Recipient of Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award!
Dr. Harold Fisk was chosen by the Ohio Cancer Research Associates to win the Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award. This award is presented to a promising young investigator who best exemplifies the motto of the organization, "Give New Ideas a Chance". Harold received a two-year research grant from Ohio Cancer Research Associates, and after the first year, he leveraged the work to obtain an R01 from NIH. He will accept this award at the black tie optional gala to be held June 18 at the Hilton Easton. Congratulations to Harold!!!!
Thursday, June 18 2009
Textbooks for Courses
SUMMER 2010
MG500 Pierce, Benjamin. Genetics: A Conceptual Approach Pierce Gen 3eLL @OSU & eBook. OSU Edition, Publisher: Freeman. ISBN# 1-14292-3897-6 Book Required
Monday, May 11 2009
Congratulations to Erich Grotewold Elected to AAAS Fellow
Dr. Erich Grotewold, Professor, has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow. He is being honored for distinguished contributions to the field of plant regulation of gene expression, particularly in the areas of control of plant metabolism and plant development.
Friday, December 5 2008
Welcome to new faculty members!
Dr. Jian-Qiu Wu joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. Dr. Wu joins us from Yale University where he was a Postdoctoral Researcher for five years. His research includes the roles of signaling and cytoskeletal proteins in cell polarization and cell division.
Dr. Amanda Bird joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Department of Human Nutrition. Dr. Bird comes to OSU from the University of Utah where she was a Research Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher. Her research includes sensing of metal elements by eukaryotes; regulatory roles of novel RNAs and small proteins.
Dr. Maki Asano joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry October 1, 2008. Dr. Asano was a Research Assistant Professor at Duke University Medical Center. Her research includes cell cycle regulation in metazoans during development.
Dr. Robin Wharton will join the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Depatment of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry in January 2009. Dr. Wharton comes from Duke University Medical Center where he has been a Professor and a Howard Hughes Investigator for the last 15 years.
Monday, November 17 2008
Congratulations to our recent Ph.D.'s!
Jing Li (MG student in Gustavo Leone's lab) received her Ph.D. Spring 2009. She has a postdoctoral researcher position at Genentech.
Hui-Lin Liu (MG student in Steve Osmani's lab) received her Ph.D. Spring 2009. She has a position at the University of Massachusetts Medical School as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Emily Shifley (MG student in Susan Cole's lab) received her Ph.D. Spring 2009. She holds a postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Cincinnati Medical School.
Shih-yin Tsai (MG student in Gustavo Leone's lab) received her Ph.D. Spring 2009. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Congratulations to all!
Monday, November 17 2008
