News and Events

$1.45 million grant from NIH to Antony Lab

The Antony lab has received a four-year $1.45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the function of proteins involved in DNA repair and recombination. The project seeks to understand the mechanism of action of Replication Protein A (RPA), a key player in maintaining the integrity of the genome. Defects in RPA and coordination of DNA repair leads to genomic instabilities, a hallmark of most cancers.

Drs. Antony, St. Maurice, Petrella, Manogaran, and Yang receive the NSF-MRI grant of $251,424 for acquisition of a Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscope for Research and Education at Marquette University and the Greater Milwaukee Region for single molecule studies.

Dr. Sofia Origanti’s lab recently uncovered a new mechanism of regulation of the eukaryotic initiation factor-6 in response to starvation-induced stress. She received a research grant of $457,000 from the NIH through the NIGMS-R15 funding mechanism for this project. Read more

Dr. Rosemary Stuart receives $900,000 grant from the NSF for study of yeast mitoribosomes

Dr. Pinfen Yang receives $419,250 from the NIH for molecular study of eukaryotic cilia

Antony and Gamble awarded 2018 Way Klingler Young Scholar Awards

USDA grants Dr. Michael Schlappi $500,000 to study the mechanisms of cold stress tolerance responses in rice

Student Achievements

Biology seniors earn spots in McNair Scholars Program

• Three of our graduate students receive Marquette University Fellowship Awards:
  Aaron Griffing - Richard W. Jobling Distinguished Research Assistantship; Elliot Corless - Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellowship; Rachelle Beattie - Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J. Fellowship
• Aaron Griffing, graduate student in Dr. Gamble's lab, receives the 2019 - Society for Developmental Biology Emerging Models Grant
• Emma Tillison, undergraduate researcher in Dr. Antony's lab, receives the 2019-2020 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Undergraduate Scholar Award.