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Recent Graduate Student Achievements
Natalee Hite received the 2023 SIU System Student Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes and honors the efforts and contributions of students in the SIU System “whose acts of service are demonstrative of excellence and exemplary commitment to the support, advancement and achievement of fellow students, their campus, and their community.”
Bristi Poudel (PhD Student, MCSP Graduate Program, Cheatwood Lab) received the Top poster award (Graduate) at the 2023 Student Research and Creative Activities Forum as well as the Outstanding Graduate Presentation during the Sigma Xi Poster Competition
Bristi Poudel (PhD Student, MCSP Graduate Program, Cheatwood Lab) received the People's Choice award at the 2023 "Three-Minute Thesis" competition in the SIU Graduate School. This competition promotes gradute students' ability to communicate their research in a short 3 minute time frame.
Natalee Hite (PhD Student, MCSP Graduate Program, Sarko Lab) received the Rose and Essie Padgett Scholarship which to recognizes highly-qualified student members of Sigma Xi. Click here for more information on this scholarship and here for a photo
Bristi Poudel (PhD Student, MCSP Graduate Program, Cheatwood Lab) received a 2022 Histochemical Society Cornerstone Grant
Pratyusa Das was awarded 2nd place for her oral presentation at the 32nd Annual Trainee Research Symposium held April 12 & 15 at SIU School of Medicine. Pratyusa's mentor is Dr. Buffy Ellsworth.
Titas Roy has been selected to receive the Marlene Rotbart Matten Excellence in Health Research Award. The award is in memory of Marlene Rotbart Matten, a nurse at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, who, while working full-time as Director of Education and raising a family of four children, earned Masters and Doctoral degrees at SIUC.
Rupak Thapa and Pratyusa Das were selected to be the SIU student representatives for the Illinois Symposium on Reproductive Sciences (ISRS) meeting which will be held the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on October 11, 2021.
Congratulations to Pratyusa Das who was selected for the 2021-2022 Research Experiences for Graduate and Medical Students (REGMS).The REGMS program includes support for participation in endocrinology research and year-round career development as well as ongoing mentorship to help Pratyusa achieve her career goals.
Recent graduate Dr. Caitlin Stallings received the award for Outstanding Dissertation for her submission titled "Forkhead Factors FOX01 and FOX03 in Pituitary Gland Development and Function.
Pratyusa Das was featured in the Daily Egyptian detailing the focus of her current research. Click on the link to view the article. https://dailyegyptian.com/106172/multimedia/weekly-international-student-feature-pratyusa-das/
Congratulations to Deepak Hiremath on having his paper "High levels of testosterone cause chondrocyte accumulation and loss of smooth muscle in the mouse penile body" featured in the SSR weekly news .
Purab Pal received 3rd place at the "Three-Minute Thesis" competition in the SIU Graduate School. This competition promotes gradute students' ability to communicate their research in a short 3 minute time frame.
Deepak Hiremath received 1st place at the SIU SOM trainee research symposium poster competition for his poster titled "Sexual Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Familial-Male Limited Precocious Puberty."
Caitlin Stallings received 2nd place in oral presentations during the SIU SOM reserach symposium for her talk titled "FOXO1 Contributes to Somatotrope Differentiation Through Regulation of Key Transcription Factors."
Sandeep Adhikari received 3rd place in oral presentations during the SIU SOM reserach symposium for his talk titled "Assessing the Pathogenicity of Newly Identified De-Novo Variants in DEAF1-Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorders (DAND)."
Nikola Sekulovski was the the recipient of the 2019 Gates Foundation-SSR Scholarship (Made possible by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Nikola was selected to attend the MBL Frontiers in Reproduction course offered from April 27-June 9, 2019.
Caitlin Stallings was published in Endocrinology for an article entitled " Premature Expression of FOX01 in Developing Mouse Pituitary Results in Anterior Lobe Hypoplasia". Click on the link to view the article. https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/159/8/2891/4999691
Caitlin Stallings was the recipient of an Early Career Forum Travel Award from the Endocrine Society. The annual ENDO meeting will be March 16-20, 2018.
2018 Assembly of the Fellows
Chelsea Griffith was invited to attend the SIU Graduate School 2017 Assembly of Fellows Reception held on October 12 where she was recognized as a recipient of the Dissertation Research Award for the School of Medicine.
Caitlin Stallings was the recipient of a Women in Endocrinology Young Investigator award. The award will be given at the WE dinner on Saturday April 1, 2017. She will receive a monetary award which can go towards her attendance to the Endocrine Society meeting.
Chris Weston received the Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. Graduates. Pictured below are Anirrudha Ghosh, Anushka Dikshit, Lan Hai and Sheree Speckman
Jessica Whitaker earned first place in the oral presentations at the 26th Annual SOM Trainee Symposium for her talk entitled, “Muscle-Specific Expression of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Chick Embryos”.
Anushka Dikshit was the recipient of the SIUC DRA (Dissertation Research Award). Click for more information
Lan Hai received the Lalor Foundation Merit Award and third place award in the Trainee Research Poster Competition at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society of the Study of Reproduction in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Jyoti Kapali was the Women in Endocrinology Sponsored Early Career Forum Travel Awardee for ENDO 2015.
Ferdousy S, Chen B. An assessment of genome-editing efficiency of a newly developed Cas9 in C. elegans. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Jul 17;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000601. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000601. eCollection 2022.
McGee SR, Rajamanickam S, Adhikari S, Falayi OC, Wilson TA, Shayota BJ, Cooley Coleman JA, Skinner C, Caylor RC, Stevenson RE, D' Angioli Costa Quaio CR, Wilke BC, Bain JM, Anyane-Yeboa K, Brown K, Greally JM, Bijlsma EK, Ruivenkamp CAL, Politi K, Arbogast LA, Collard MW, Huggenvik JI, Elsea SH, Jensik PJ. Expansion and mechanistic insights of de novo DEAF1 variants in DEAF1-associated neurodevelopmental disorders. Hum Mol Genet. 2022 Aug 18:ddac200. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddac200. PMID: 35981081
Stallings CE, Kapali J, Evans BW, McGee SR, Ellsworth BS. FOXO Transcription Factors Are Required for Normal Somatotrope Function and Growth. Endocrinology. 2022 Feb 1;163(2):bqab263. doi: 10.1210/endocr/bqab263.PMID: 34971379
Hite, N.J..; Sudheimer, K.D; Anderson, L..; Sarko, D.K. Spatial Learning and Memory in the Naked Mole Rat: Evolutionary Adaptations to a Subterannean Niche. . Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022. https://doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.879989
Weston,W.C.; Hales, K.H.;
Hales, D.B. Flaxseed Increases
Animal Lifespan and Reduces
Ovarian Cancer Severity by Toxically
Augmenting One-Carbon
Metabolism. Molecules 2021, 26, 5674.
https://doi.org/10.3390/
molecules26185674
A Review of Principal Studies on the Development and Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in the Laying Hen Gallus gallus.
Pal P, Starkweather KN, Hales KH, Hales DB.Comp Med. 2021 Aug 1;71(4):271-284. doi: 10.30802/AALAS-CM-20-000116. Epub 2021 Jul 29.PMID: 34325771
Constitutive LH receptor activity impairs NO-mediated penile smooth muscle relaxation.
Hiremath DS, Priviero FBM, Webb RC, Ko C, Narayan P.Reproduction. 2021 Jan;161(1):31-41. doi: 10.1530/REP-20-0447.PMID: 33112284
Altered hippocampal astroglial metabolism is associated with aging and preserved spatial learning and memory.
Ebersole J, Rose G, Eid T, Behar K, Patrylo P.Neurobiol Aging. 2021 Jun;102:188-199. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.02.015. Epub 2021 Feb 26.PMID: 33774381
Hai, L., Hiremath, D.S., Paquet, M. and Narayan, P. (2017) Constitutive luteinizing hormone receptor signaling causes sexual dysfunction and Leydig cell adenomas in male mice. Biol. Reprod. 96:1007-1018.
Dikshit A, Gomes Filho MA, Eilati E, et al. Flaxseed reduces the pro-carcinogenic micro-environment in the ovaries of normal hens by altering the PG and oestrogen pathways in a dose-dependent manner. British Journal of Nutrition. 2015:1-12.
Hai, L, McGee, S.R., Rabideau, A.C., Paquet, M. and Narayan, P. (2015) Infertility in Female Mice with a Gain-of-Function Mutation in the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor is due to Irregular Estrous Cyclicity, Anovulation, Hormonal Alterations and Polycystic Ovaries. Biol. Reprod. 93:16, 1-11. PMID 26040673.
Welborn JP, Davis MG, Ebers SD, Stodden GR, Hayashi K, Cheatwood JL, Rao MK, and MacLean JA (2015). Rhox8 ablation in the Sertoli cells using a tissue-specific RNAi approach results in impaired male fertility in mice. Biology of Reproduction 93(1):8-16 PMID: 25972016
King ML, Lindberg ME, Stodden GR, Okuda H, Ebers SD, Johnson A, Montag A, Lengyel E, MacLean JA, and Hayashi K (2014). WNT7A/β-catenin signaling induces FGF1 and influences sensitivity to niclosamide in ovarian cancer. Oncogene 34(26):3452-62. PMID: 25174399
Stodden GR, Lindberg ME, King ML, Paquet M, MacLean JA, Mann JL, DeMayo FJ, Lydon JP, Hayashi K (2014). Loss of Cdh1 and Trp53 in the uterus induces chronic inflammation with modification of tumor microenvironment. Oncogene 34(19):2471-82 PMID: 24998851
Lindberg ME, Stodden GR, King ML, MacLean JA, Mann JL, DeMayo FJ, Lydon JP, and Hayashi K (2013). Loss of Cdh1 and Pten accelerates cellular invasiveness and angiogenesis in the mouse uterus. Biology of Reproduction 89:8. PMID: 23740945
Kanak DJ, Rose GM, Zaveri HP, Patrylo PR. 2013 Altered network timing in the CA3-CA1 circuit in hippocampal slices from aged mice. PLoS ONE. In press.
Brown RM, Davis MG, Hayashi K, MacLean JA 2nd. 2013 Regulated expression of Rhox8 in the mouse ovary: Evidence for the role of progesterone and RHOX5 in granulosa cells. Mar 27. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23536368
Majumdar S, Farris CL, Kabat BE, Jung DO, Ellsworth BS. 2012 Forkhead Box O1 is Increased in Embryonic Pituitary in the Absence of p27kip1. PLoS ONE, 7:e52136. PMID: 23251696
Eilati E, Pan L, Bahr JM, Hales DB. 2012 Age dependent increase in prostaglandin pathway coincides with onset of ovarian cancer in laying hens. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 87:177-84. PMID: 23089186
Kanak DJ, Jones RT, Tokhi A, Willingham AL, Zaveri HP, Rose GM, Patrylo PR. 2011 Electrical and Pharmacological Stimuli Reveal a Greater Susceptibility for CA3 Network Excitability in Hippocampal Slices from Aged vs. Adult Fischer 344 Rats. Aging Dis. 2:318-31. PMID: 22396884
Reardon SN, King ML, MacLean JA 2nd, Mann JL, DeMayo FJ, Lydon JP, Hayashi K. 2012 CDH1 is essential for endometrial differentiation, gland development, and adult function in the mouse uterus. Biol Reprod. 86:141, 1-10. PMID: 22378759
Scott CA, van Huyen D, Bany BM. 2012 Angiopoietin-like gene expression in the mouse uterus during implantation and in response to steroids. Cell Tissue Res. 348:199-211. PMID: 22350948
Huyen DV, Bany BM. 2011 Evidence for a conserved function of heart and neural crest derivatives expressed transcript 2 in mouse and human decidualization. Reproduction. 142:353-68. PMID: 21527398
McConaha ME, Eckstrum K, An J, Steinle JJ, Bany BM. 2011 Microarray assessment of the influence of the conceptus on gene expression in the mouse uterus during decidualization. Reproduction. 141:511-27. PMID: 21300692
Hayashi K, Yoshioka S, Reardon SN, Rucker EB 3rd, Spencer TE, DeMayo FJ, Lydon JP, MacLean JA 2nd. 2011 WNTs in the neonatal mouse uterus: potential regulation of endometrial gland development. Biol Reprod. 84:308-319. PMID: 20962251