Congratulations to:
2024- Submission of Timmons et. al 2024
2023- Welcoming the arrival of Maximilian Ganser (University of Salzburg) to the Katzlab!
2023- Adri Grow for her recent biography on Brandon Ogbunu, published in Genome Biology and Evolution.
2023- Laura Katz and Taylor Sehein, awarded “RUI: PurSUit: Biodiversity discovery of shell-building amoebae (Arcellinida: Amoebozoa) in low pH bogs and fens” NSF grant.
2023- Godwin Ani for being awarded a Spaulding-Smith Fellowship to support his graduate study. More information on the Fellowship here.
2023- Adri Grow (Ph.D. Student) for her recent biography on Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, published in Genome Biology and Evolution.
2016: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at EMBO…
2016: Xyrus Maurer-Alcalá received NSF xxx grant to study ciliates in Meng Chao Yao’s lab in Taipei
2016: Olivia Pilling and Ying Yan selected to present at Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference
2016: Ying Yan selected to present at 5th Workshop of the International Research Coordination Network for Ciliate Biodiversity (IRCN-BC)
2016: Chip Sisson, Ying Yan, Monica Wilson, Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at The International Research Coordination Network for Biodiversity of Ciliates’ Meeting on Taxonomy, Environmental Diversity, and Functional Ecology
2016: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at EMBL meeting: A New Age of Discovery for Aquatic Microeukaryotes.
2016: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at Sloan microbiology of the Built Environment Meeting
2016: Laura M. Walker joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2016: Jean-David Grattepanche, Xyrus Maurer-Alcalá, Ying Yan, Sarah Tucker and Laura M. Walker attend the Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Workshop in San Diego
2015: Ying Yan arrives for two years after being awarded China Scholarship Council Scholarship for joint PhD students
2015: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at GRS-GRC Applied & Environmental Microbiology
2013: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at SMBE Eukaryotic -Omics meeting
2010-2011: Dan Lahr, awarded the University of Massachusetts Graduate Fellowship Award
2009: Laura Katz and Dan Lahr, awarded “Testing phylogenetic hypotheses within Tubulinea, a clade of free-living lobose amoebae” NSF grant, 2009.
2008: Laura Katz, awarded the Seymore H. Hutner Prize for being ‘an outstanding scientist in the field of Protozoology’ by the International Society of Protistology.
2007: Laura Wegener Parfrey, recipient of Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research – Genomic Processing and Sequence Evolution in Foraminifera.
2007: Dan Lahr, recipient UMass OEB TA Award.
2007: Laura Wegener Parfrey, recipient of ISOP best student presentation.
2007: Dan Lahr, recipient of Brasilian Graduate Student Fellowship.
2007: Mary Doherty, recipient of UMass Boscov Fellowship.