Student Awards and Publications
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.
Sumeda Nandadasa
- Albert J. Ryan Fellowship, The highest honors awarded by University of Cincinnati College of Medicine to graduate students (2008-2010)
- Top presenter, 3rd year class platform presentation at the Molecular and Developmental Biology graduate student symposium (September 2007)
- Top poster, 4th year class poster presentation at the Molecular and Developmental Biology graduate student symposium (September 2008)
- Honorable mention, 29th Annual Graduate student research Forum, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (November 2008)
- Sumeda Nandadasa*, Qinghua Tao*, Pierre D. McCrea, Janet Heasman and Christopher Wylie (2007). G-protein-coupled signals control cortical actin assembly by controlling cadherin expression in the early Xenopus embryo. Development 134, 2651-2661 (* These two authors contributed equally to this work)
- Sumeda Nandadasa, Qinghua Tao, Nikhil Menon, Janet Heasman, and Christopher Wylie. N- and E-cadherins in Xenopus are specifically required in the neural and non-neural ectoderm, respectively, for cortical actin assembly and morphogenetic movements (manuscript in review, 2008)
Michelle Combs
- American Heart Association – Great Rivers Affiliate, Predoctoral Fellowship Award #0715107B. NFATc1 regulation of extracellular matrix remodeling and cell proliferation in heart valve development. Michelle Combs, Fellow. Katherine Yutzey, Sponsor. Total direct costs $42,000, 2007-2009.
- Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program Student Representative 2006-2009.
- Travel Award - 2008 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference, Houston, Texas, $1,000, May 2008.
- Top Poster Presentation for 4th Year Class- Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program Student Symposium, Loveland, Ohio, September 2007.
- Mehta PA, Eapen M, Klein JP, Gandham S, Elliot J, Zamzow T, Combs M, Aplenc R, MacMillan ML, Weisdorf DJ, Petersdorf E, Davies SM. (2007) Interleukin-1 alpha genotype and outcome of unrelated donor haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for chronic myeloid leukaemia. British Journal of Haematology Apr; 137(2): 152-7.
