{"id":813,"date":"2023-03-27T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/katz-lab\/?page_id=813"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:20:27","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/katz-lab\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to:<\/p>\n

2025- Congratulations to Adri Grow, winner of Johanna M. Resig Foraminiferal Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

2025- Welcome to Giulia Ribeiro, new postdoctoral fellow<\/p>\n

2024- Submission of “Foraminifera as a model of eukaryotic genome dynamism<\/a>” (Timmons et. al 2024)<\/p>\n

2023- Welcoming the arrival of Maximilian Ganser (University of Salzburg) to the Katzlab!<\/p>\n

2023- Adri Grow for her recent biography<\/a> on Brandon Ogbunu, published in Genome Biology and Evolution.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2023- Godwin Ani for being awarded a Spaulding-Smith Fellowship to support his graduate study. More information on the Fellowship here.<\/a><\/p>\n

2023- Adri Grow (Ph.D. Student) for her recent biography <\/a>on Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, published in Genome Biology and Evolution.<\/p>\n

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2016: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at EMBO\u2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2016: Xyrus Maurer-Alcal\u00e1 received NSF xxx grant to study ciliates in Meng Chao Yao\u2019s lab in Taipei<\/div>\n
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2016: Olivia Pilling and Ying Yan selected to present at Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference<\/div>\n
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2016: Ying Yan selected to present at 5th Workshop of the International Research Coordination Network for Ciliate Biodiversity (IRCN-BC)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2016: Chip Sisson, Ying Yan, Monica Wilson, Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at The International Research Coordination Network for Biodiversity of Ciliates\u2019 Meeting on Taxonomy, Environmental Diversity, and Functional Ecology<\/span><\/div>\n
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2016: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at EMBL meeting: A New Age of Discovery for Aquatic Microeukaryotes.<\/div>\n
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2016: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at Sloan microbiology of the Built Environment Meeting<\/div>\n
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2016: Laura M. Walker joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2016: Jean-David Grattepanche, Xyrus Maurer-Alcal\u00e1, Ying Yan, Sarah Tucker and Laura M. Walker attend the Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Workshop in San Diego<\/div>\n
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2015: Ying Yan arrives for two years after being awarded China Scholarship Council Scholarship for joint PhD students<\/div>\n
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2015: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at GRS-GRC Applied & Environmental Microbiology<\/div>\n
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2013: Jean-David Grattepanche selected to present at SMBE Eukaryotic -Omics meeting<\/span><\/div>\n
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2010-2011: Dan Lahr, awarded the University of Massachusetts Graduate Fellowship Award<\/span><\/div>\n
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2009: Laura Katz and Dan Lahr, awarded \u201cTesting phylogenetic hypotheses within Tubulinea, a clade of free-living lobose amoebae\u201d NSF grant, 2009.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2008: Laura Katz, awarded the Seymore H. Hutner Prize for being \u2018an outstanding scientist in the field of Protozoology\u2019 by the International Society of Protistology.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2007: Laura Wegener Parfrey, recipient of Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research \u2013 Genomic Processing and Sequence Evolution in Foraminifera.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2007: Dan Lahr, recipient  UMass OEB TA Award.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2007: Laura Wegener Parfrey, recipient of  ISOP best student presentation.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2007: Dan Lahr, recipient of Brasilian Graduate Student Fellowship.<\/span><\/div>\n
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2007: Mary Doherty, recipient of UMass Boscov Fellowship.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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