Three McArdle graduate students recently received recognition from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research in Dr. Kinjal Majumder’s laboratory.
MegAnn Haubold (Cancer Biology Graduate Program) and Clairine Larsen (Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program) have been awarded 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports “outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers”. The goal of the program is to ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The GRFP 5-year fellowship provides three years of financial support to awardees and is highly competitive.
MegAnn is studying the mechanism of inhibition of the ATR-kinase pathway by single-stranded DNA viruses. The focus of Clairine’s research is the mechanism of transcriptional regulation by genome topology.
In addition, Majumder lab graduate student Rhiannon Abrahams (Microbiology Doctoral Training Program) received a GRFP Honorable Mention for her project on the mechanisms of eccDNA formation and persistence.
Congratulations to our McArdle students on this incredible achievement!
