Member News March 2023-September 2023

*Member Names are in Bold

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• Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Washington University St. Louis and Erin Shuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023.
• Tom Baden, University of Sussex and Julien Vermot, Imperial College London, were elected as Members of EMBO.
• Rob Parton, University of Queensland elected as Associate Member of EMBO.
• Marnie E. Halpern, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, Ceclia B. Moens, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Deborah Yelon, University California, San Diego, and H. Jospeh Yost, University Utah, elected as inaugural members for the Society for Developmental Biology Academy.
• Robert Gerlai, University of Toronto, Mississauga elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
• Juhyun Lee, University of Texas Arlington, named a Fellow of the American Heart Association.
• Sarah Ackerman, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, named a 2023 Klingenstein-Simons Fellow.
• Yaniv Elkouby, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, receives Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Metzner Award for Oustanding Research.
• Yaniv Elkouby, Hebrew University School of Medicine, awarded the 2023 Zelman Cowen Academic Initiatives Prize for Discovery in Medical Research.
• D’Juan Farmer, University of California, Los Angeles and Sonya Neal, University of California, San Diego named inaugural HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars.
• Guo Huang, UCSF, awarded 2023 ISHR Mid-Career Investigator Research Award.
• Anming Meng, Tsinghua University, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Zebrafish Society.
• Cecilia Moens, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, receives a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from NINDS.
• Ann Morris, University of Kentucky, honored as 2023-24 University Research Professor.
• Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, awarded the 2023 Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation for her work on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity.
• Lynne Sneddon, University of Gothenburg, awarded the 2023 Charles River Excellence in Refinement Award for promotion of fish welfare in research.
• Kandice Tanner, NCI, NIH, awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for her work on cell migration in cancer.
• Kandice Tanner, NCI, NIH, awarded the E.E. Just Award and will present the award lecture at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in 2023.
• Tony Tsai, Washington University, St Louis named a 2023 Pew Scholar.
• Richard White, Oxford University, awarded the 2023 Outstanding Research Award from the Society for Melanoma Research.
• Kristine Willett, University of Mississippi, awarded the 2023 SEC Faculty Achievement Award.
• Daniel Gorelick, Baylor College of Medicine, named Editor-in-Chief for Biology Open.
• Image taken by Daniel Castranova, NICHD, NIH, included as part of the “Life Magnified” USPS stamp panel.
• Cameron Wyatt, Charli Corcoran, and Jonathan Smith awarded the Community Engagement Award from The University of Edinburgh.
• Gwendolyn Beacham (mentors Elliott Hagedorn and Christopher Chen, Boston University), Katherine Deets (mentor Nels Elde, University of Utah), and Rocky Diegmiller (mentors Ken Poss and Stefano di Talia),  named 2023 Jane Coffin Childs Fellows.
• Katherine Deets (mentor Nels Elde, University of Utah) named a 2023 Leading Edge Symposium Fellow.
• Liz Haynes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, named an SCPAB Transition to Independence (TTI) Fellow by the Simons Foundation.
• Valerie Tornini (mentor Antonio Giraldez, Yale University) is a 2023 Regional Blavatnik Award Finalist.
• Layra Cintron-Rivera (mentor Jessica Plavicki, Brown University) received honorable mention in the Evident 2022 Global Image of the Year Scientific Light Microscopy competition. Image: Here
• Sara Jorges (mentor Anna, Olsen University Porto) received 2023 ART award for 3R research project “ZMATRIX- Developing non-terminal methods to assess cortisol in adult zebrafish”.
• Michelle Kossack (mentor Jessica Plavicki, Brown University) awarded NE Society of Toxicology Paper of the Year award.
• Emily McMahon (mentor Paul Kasher, University of Manchester) awarded the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Neils Lassen Award.
• Brittany Truong (mentor Kristin Artinger, University of Colorado Anschutz) named a 2023 Mass Media Fellow. She will be reporting for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for her fellowship.
• Benjamin Chang (mentor Philip Bevilacqua) and Renata Proano (mentor Salvatore Stella) at Penn State University were awarded Undergraduate Research Awards: Excellence in Information Literacy for their outstanding student research utilizing zebrafish.
• Undergraduate Gabby Conover (mentor Jen Uno, Elon University) named a 2023 Lumen Scholar for her work on the Gut-Brain-Axis in zebrafish.
• Undergraduate Bridget Damon (mentor Donald Stearns, Wagner College) won an award for Best Poster Presentation at the 77th annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference for her work on the behavioral response of Daphnia to Zebrafish.

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