July, 2021
Press release for PNAS article: UConn researcher’s work with flies could be a birth control boon.
April, 2021
Cindy Li received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) award.
April, 2021
Katarina Yacuk is selected as Beckman Scholar.
April, 2019
Katya Skaritanov is selected as Beckman Scholar.
April, 2018
Timothy King received the OUR Supply Award from Office of Undergraduate Research.
April, 2018
Ekaterin Skaritanov received the UConn IDEA Grant.
Mar, 2018
Celina Caetano received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) award.
Jan, 2018
Audrey Dellert received the OUR Supply Award from Office of Undergraduate Research.
Jan, 2018
Lylah and Wei’s eLife paper is highlighted on the eLife Homepage.
May, 2017
Lylah Deady received James S. Romanow Memorial Award for her excellence in research and contribution to the research training of others.
April, 2017
Jessica Young received both UConn SURF Award and Beckman Scholar Award.
Jan, 2017
STAT reported our lab research project.
“First Look: Could a fruit fly’s sex life be the key to a new type of contraception?”
Nov, 2016
We won Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenges Grant for contraceptives research. UConn Today reported our project.
More information is available on Gates Foundation website.
Sep, 2016
Radhika Malhotra received OUR supply award from Office of Undergraduate Research.
May, 2016
We are one of the recipients of the 2016 UConn Research Excellence Program Storrs awards.
May, 2016
We are excited to receive a R01 award from NICHD to fund our research project on ovulation for the next five years (2016-2021).
April, 2016
Risa Kiernan is awarded the Claire Berg Award!
The Claire Berg Award will be awarded to an outstanding female senior in Biological Sciences, EEB, MCB, or PNB who has conducted original research in molecular or microbial genetics. The award was established in memory of Professor Claire Berg, Molecular and Cell Biology Department.”
April, 2016
Elizabeth Knapp received 2016 TAGC Travel Award from Genetics Society of America to present her research findings at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) in Orlando, FL.
Mar, 2016
Radhika Malhotra received a 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) award.
Oct, 2015
The paper of “A follicle rupture assay reveals an essential role for follicular adrenergic signaling in Drosophila ovulation” is available online now in PLoS Genetics. PLoS Genet 11(10): e1005604. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005604
Oct, 2015
Risa Kiernan received OUR supply award from Office of Undergraduate Research.
Oct, 2015
Lylah Deady won Data Blitz Prize at Neuroscience at Storrs.
Sep, 2015
Lylah’s paper “A follicle rupture assay reveals an essential role for follicular adrenergic signaling in Drosophila ovulation” is accepted for publication in PLoS Genetics.
Feb, 2015
The UConn Today reported our first article in PLoS Genetics, “Abuzz over ovulation similarities between two very different species“.
Feb, 2015
The lab’s first paper “Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 Is Required for Ovulation and Corpus Luteum Formation in Drosophila” is published in PLoS Genetics. PLoS Genet 11: e1004989. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004989
Mar, 2015
Lylah presented “Follicular adrenergic signaling plays an essential and conserved role in Drosophila ovulation” on 44th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago.
Feb, 2014
Sarah Mosure received both Holster and IDEA awards.