Great Job! Three graduate students affiliated with our Cell Biology & Physiology (CBP) Track faculty presented their research at the Annual UAMS Student Research Day this past Tuesday (March 10, 2020). Iad Alhallak (breast cancer), Caitlin Caperton (thyroid cancer) and Seunghyun Jung (nanoparticles/neural differentiation) talked about their recent findings from work carried out with mentors […]
Department News
UAMS-Led Research Spurs Artistic Revelation
It looks like something conjured by the imagination, or perhaps an other-worldly landscape. But an award-winning artistic image actually has roots in the laboratory and creative minds of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Brian Storrie, Ph.D., a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and […]
Congratulations Dr. Bellido
Dr. Teresita Bellido, incoming Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, has been named Arkansas Research Alliance Scholar. https://news.uams.edu/2019/12/05/uams-researcher-teresita-bellido-named-ara-scholar/ Dr. Bellido will begin her role as Chairman of Physiology and Biophysics on July 1, 2020
Holiday Joy 2019
Great Holiday Party hosted by Leoamie Jefferson and the students of Physiology and Biophysics. Food, Fellowship, and loads of Fun and Games set a Joyous atmosphere for all!
SPOOKTACULAR Potluck
The Annual Physiology and Biophysics Halloween Potluck was Spooktacular! Thank you to Leoamie Jefferson for a boo-tiful job planning fun and games and fellowship–she even brought Trick or Treaters. Adam Corken, Postdoctoral Fellow, transformed the hallway and break room in to a bone-chilling dark and creepy spider’s den to set the atmosphere. Adam was also […]
Congratulations Maya Merriweather – 2019 Phillip L. Rayford Scholarship Winner
The 2019 Phillip L. Rayford Memorial Scholarship winner is Maya Merriweather. Maya received a Bachelors in Biology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 2017. She is a member of Student Advocacy Council and is Vice President of the Edith Irby Jones Chapter of Student National Medical Association. She is also the recipient of […]
Great Job
Congratulations are in order to Pankaj Patyal who was awarded first place for his poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience held on Sept. 30, 2019 at UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The title of the presentation is “The wmN1 Enhancer Region of the Mouse Myelin Proteolipid Protein Gene (mPlp1) is Indispensable for […]
Congratulations Ph.D. Candidates
Congratulations to Departmental Graduate Students Receiving White Coats Rebecca Ring, a graduate student in Dr. Maria Almeida-Schuller’s lab, Zinia D’Souza, a graduate student in Dr. Vladimir Lupashin’s lab, and Caitlin Caperton, an M.D./Ph.D. student of Drs. Aime Franco and Jerry Ware received their white coats at the recent UAMS Graduate School’s Research Induction Ceremony. The […]
Congratulations Zinia D’Souza
Ms. Zinia D’Souza for successfully passing her Ph.D. Qualifying Exam! This summer Zinia presented her research at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology and was selected to participate in the EMBO Practical Course on Current Methods in Cell Biology, which will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany in September. She also published her […]
Parimal Chowdhury, Ph.D., Retirement Reception
Congratulations Dr. Chowdhury on your retirement! The department hosted a retirement ceremony on June 21, 2019.