Congratulations to Helena on winning the following awards at the 54th SSR meeting in St. Louis! Burroughs Wellcome Fund Travel Award SSR Poster Competition (Post-Doctoral) - Third Place

Peyton earned Distinction for research in MCB for fall 2021.  This honor will appear on his official University of Illinois transcript and on his diploma. This is certainly an accomplishment worth celebrating! Peyton will be recognized at the School of MCB Convocation Ceremony on Sunday, May 15, 2022.

Welcome to Debarun Roy, Ph.D as a postdoctoral fellow in the Reddi lab.

Kaitlyn M. Campbell*, Yiding Xu*, Chintan Patel*, Jeremy M. Rayl, Helena D. Zomer, Hari Prasad Osuru, Michael Pratt, Patcharin Pramoonjago, Madeline Timken, Lyndzi M. Miller, Abigail Ralph, Kathryn M. Storey, Yiheng Peng, Jenny Drnevich, Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne Philip C. Wong, Huanyu Qiao, Prabhakara P. Reddi. “Loss of TDP-43 in male germ cells causes meiotic failure and [...]

Congratulations to Helena, she will be starting as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Vet Med, Gainesville, Florida, in the fall of 2021. We wish her all the best!

Congratulations to Helena for winning the Top Award of the presentation competition at the college’s annual Celebration of Research. She presented a poster on “Deletion of Negative Elongating Factor B (Nelf-b) in Sertoli Cells Leads to Sperm Aberrations and Infertility in Mice”

Congratulations to Peyton Hopkins for the award of 2021 Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) Undergraduate Research Scholar. This is a 10-week paid fellowship for Peyton to conduct research in the Reddi lab this summer

Congratulations to Allison Schierer for oral presentation at the UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021. Her talk was on “RNAi knockdown in Sertoli cells affects Cathepsin-L expression”

Congratulations to Saakshi Pothina for poster presentation at UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021. Her poster was on “Deletion of the negative elongation factor protein (Nelf) in Sertoli cells of mice does not significantly affect their survival and maintenance”

Congratulations to Helena on the acceptance of her second paper in Molecular Reproduction and Development!