Graduate students in the Molecular and Developmental Biology program at Cincinnati Children's have many opportunities to present their findings and earn awards for their work. Here is but a small sampling of the kind of recognition our students have received over the past few years.
 Elaine Shelton (entered 2003)
- American Heart Association-Ohio Valley Predoctoral Fellowship, 7/05 - 7/07
- Outstanding 3rd Year Platform Presentation at the Developmental Biology student symposium, 2005
- University of Cincinnati Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Winter 2006
- American Heart Association-Ohio Valley Affiliate, Pre-doctoral Fellowship #0515153B The role of Tbx20 in extracellular matrix remodeling during heart valve development. Elaine Howells, Fellow. K. Yutzey, Sponsor. Total direct costs $38,000, 2005 - 2007
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 Yoni Mahller (entered 2002)
- 3rd Place Poster Presentation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Graduate Student Poster Competition, 11/2005
- Top Poster Presentation, DB Symposium, 9/2005
- Top Oral Presentation, DB Symposium, 9/2004
- Functional Genomics Seed Grant, 2003-2004
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 Kevin Burns (entered 2002)
- Ruth Kirschstein NRSA individual Fellowship entitiled Regeneration by White Matter Progenitors after stroke.
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 Dong Yan (entered 2002)
- Albert J. Ryan Fellowship, The highest honor for the graduate students of the University of Cincinnati, 2005-2007
- American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, 2005-2007
- First prize of poster competition in Division of Developmental Biology annual retreat, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2004
- Student Travel award from 2005 Annul Glycobiology meeting. Boston , 2005
- Han, C. *, Yan D. *, Belenkaya, T., and Lin, X (2005) Drosophila Glypicans Dally and Dally-like shape the extracellular Wingless morphogen gradient in the wing disc. Development 132,667-679 (The first two authors contributed equally to this work). , 2005
- "Tao, Q., Yokota, C., Puck, H., Kofron, M., Birsoy, B., Yan, D., Asashima, M., Wylie.C.C, Lin, X., and Heasman, J. (2005) Maternal Wnt11 activates the canonical Wnt signaling pathway required for axis formation in Xenopus embryos. Cell 120, 857-871", 2005
- Tatyana Y. Belenkaya, Chun Han, Dong Yan, Robert J. Opoka, Marat Khodoun, Hongzhu Liu, and Xinhua Lin. (2004) Drosophila Dpp morphogen movement is independent of dynamin-mediated endocytosis but regulated by the glypican members of heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Cell 119, 231-244, 2004
- Li Yang, Dong Yan, Cong Yan and Hong Du. (2003) Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and ligands inhibit surfactant protein B gene expression in the lung. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 36841-36847, 2003
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Chun Han (entered 1999)- First prize in poster competition of Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, 2005, attach AScB photo
- The Merton Bernfield Memorial Award from American Society for Cell Biology, Awarded to only one graduate student or postdoctoral fellow every year by ASCB, 2004
- Outstanding Graduate Student Abroad Award from Chinese government, Awarded to the Chinese graduate students who have done the best graduate work outside China, 2004
- American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Award, 2003-2005
- Albert J. Ryan Fellowship, The highest honor for the graduate students of the University of Cincinnati, 2002 - 2004
- Travel Award for Annual Conference from Society for Glycobiology, 2004
- Third place at the 22nd Graduate Student Research Forum of College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 2002
- Richard A. Akeson Fellowship Traveling Award (2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005)
- First prize in Graduate Poster Forum of University of Cincinnati, 2001
- Keystone Symposim Scholarship, 2001
- Chun Han and Xinhua Lin. (2005) Shifted from Wnt to Hedgehog signaling pathways. Molecular Cell 17, 321-322, 2005
- Chun Han, Dong Yan, Tatyana Y. Belenkaya, and Xinhua Lin. (2005) Drosophila Glypicans Dally and Dally-like shape the extracellular Wingless morphogen gradient in the wing disc. Development 132, 667-679., 2005
- Chun Han, Tatyana Belenkaya, Kathy Wang, and Xinhua Lin. (2004) Drosophila glypicans control the cell-to-cell movement of Hedgehog by a dynamin-independent process. Development 131, 601-611. (This paper was commented by Amanda Tromans in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 256 (2004) and recommended by Faculty of 1000, 2004)
- Chun Han, Tatyana Y. Belenkaya, Marat Khodoun, Miyuki Tauchi, Xinda Lin and Xinhua Lin. (2004) Distinct and collaborative roles of Drosophila EXT family proteins in morphogen signalling and gradient formation. Development 131, 1563-1575, 2004
- Tatyana Y. Belenkaya, Chun Han, Dong Yan, Robert J. Opoka, Xinda Lin, Marat Khodoun, Hongzhu Liu and Xinhua Lin. (2004) Drosophila Dpp morphogen movement Is independent of Dynamin-mediated endocytosis but regulated by the glypican members of heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Cell 119, 231-244, 2004
- Ruiqiong Ran, Aigang Lu, Lu Zhang, Yang Tang, Hongyan Zhu, Huichun Xu, Yuxin Feng, Chun Han, Guoping Zhou, Alan C. Rigby and Frank R. Sharp. (2004) Hsp70 promotes TNF-mediated apoptosis by binding IKK gamma and impairing NF-kappa B survival signaling. Gene & Development 18(12):1466-81., 2004
- Tatyana Y. Belenkaya, Chun Han, Henrietta J. Standley, Xinda Lin, Douglas W. Houston, Janet Heasman, and Xinhua Lin. (2002) pygopus encodes a nuclear protein essential for Wingless/Wnt signaling. Development 129, 4089-4101 (The first three authors have contributed equally to the work.), 2002
- Chunming Liu, Yiming Li, Mikhail Semenov, Chun Han, Gyeong-Hun Baeg, Yi Tan, Zhuohua Zhang, Xinhua Lin, and Xi He. (2002) Control of ß-Catenin Phosphorylation/Degradation by a Dual-Kinase Mechanism. Cell 108, 837-847, 2002
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Jim Bridges (entered 2000)- Bridges JP, Xu Y, Na CL, Wong HR, Weaver TE. Adaptation and increased susceptibility to infection associated with constitutive expression of misfolded SP-C. J Cell Biol. 2006 Jan 30;172(3):395-407.
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Lisa Ehrman (entered 1995)- Albert J. Ryan Fellowship, The highest honor for the graduate students of the University of Cincinnati, 1997-1999
- Ehrman, L.A. and K.E. Yutzey. (1999) Lack of regulation in the heart forming region of avian embryos. Dev. Biol. 207:163-175, 1999
- Ehrman, L.A., and K.E. Yutzey (2001) Anterior expression of the caudal homologue cCdx-B activates a posterior genetic program in avian embryos. Dev. Dynamics 221: 412-421., 2001
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 Alex Lange (entered 2001)
- American Heart Association-Ohio Valley Affiliate, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, #0215078B Role of MCIP1, a Down Syndrome candidate gene, in valvuloseptal formation. Alexander Lange, Fellow. K. Yutzey, Sponsor. Total direct costs $51,000., 2002 - 2005
- Lange A.W., J.D. Molkentin, and K.E. Yutzey. (2004) DSCR1 gene expression is dependent on NFATc1 during cardiac valve formation and colocalizes with anomalous organ development in trisomy 16 mice. Dev. Biol. 266:346-360., 2004
- Lange, A.W., B.A. Rothermel, and K.E. Yutzey (2005) Restoration of DSCR1 to disomy in Trisomy 16 mice does not prevent Down syndrome-related cardiac or craniofacial development anomalies. Dev. Dynam. 233:954-963., 2005
- Lange, A.W. and K.E. Yutzey (2006) NFATc1 expression in the developing heart valves is responsive to the RANKL pathway and is required for endocardial expression of cathepsin K. Dev. Biol. In press., 2006
- Lincoln, J., A.W. Lange, and K.E. Yutzey (2006) Hearts and bones: shared regulatory mechanisms in heart valve, cartilage, tendon and bone development. Submitted., 2006
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 Timothy Plageman (entered 2001)
- American Heart Association-Ohio Valley Affiliate, Pre-doctoral Fellowship,#0215059B Regulation of cardiomyocyte differentiation and atrial chamber development by Tbx5 T.J. Plageman, Fellow. K. Yutzey, Sponsor. Total direct costs $34,000., 2002 -2004
- Plageman, T.F. Jr. and K.E. Yutzey (2004) Differential expression and function of Tbx5 and Tbx20 in cardiac development. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 19026-19034., 2004
- Plageman, T.F. Jr. and K.E. Yutzey (2005) T-box genes and heart development: Putting the "T" in HearT. Dev. Dynam. 232:11-20., 2005
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