Member News

Member News April 2024 – September 2024 

IZFS member names are in bold 

Sincere thanks to and Charli Corcoran, Michaela Nosková, and Madeline Ryan at @ZebrafishRock for help via the #DanioDigest.  Follow @ZebrafishRock on Twitter for up to the moment Zebrafish community news! 

Judith Eisen (U. Oregon) inducted into the National Academy of Sciences 

https://research.uoregon.edu/about/announcements/neuroscientist-judith-eisen-named-national-academy-sciences or https://www.nasonline.org/news/2024-nas-election/

Pamela Yelick (Tufts U.) names to the 2024 class of senior members of the National Academy of Inventors.

https://now.tufts.edu/2024/02/27/six-tufts-faculty-named-national-academy-inventors-senior-members

Newly inducted 2023 fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science:  

Raghuveer Parthasarathy (U. Oregon) 

Jordan Shavit (U. Michigan Health) 

Pamela Yelick (Tufts U.) 

H. Joseph Yost (Catholic U. of America, formerly U. Utah School of Medicine) 

https://www.aaas.org/fellows/2023-fellows 

 Newly elected EMBO members for 2024: 

Rui Oliveira (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras 

Joachim Wittbrodt (Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg) 

Emre Yaksi (Norwegian U. of Science and Technology) 

Karina Yaniv (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Newly elected EMBO Associate members for 2024: 

Miguel L. Concha (Universidad de Chile, Santiago) 

Alpha S. Yap (U. Queensland, Brisbane)

https://www.embo.org/press-releases/outstanding-scientists-elected-to-embo-membership/

New inducted 2024 members of the Society for Developmental Biology Academy 

Rebecca D. Burdine (Princeton U.) 

Mary Mullins (U. Penn) 

Sharon Amacher (The Ohio State U.) 

https://www.sdbonline.org/sdb_academy 

Minna Roh-Johnson (U. Utah)  awarded the WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research from the American Society of Cell Biology. 

Sonya Neal (U.C. San Deigo) awarded the Mentoring Keynote for the 2024 American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting 

https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2024-honorific-awards-and-recognition/

Lalita Ramakrishnan (U. Cambridge) awarded the 2024 Robert Koch Prize for her pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms behind tuberculosis. 

https://americankahani.com/community/indian-american-microbiologist-lalita-ramakrishnan-awarded-2024-robert-koch-prize/

Bernice Benayoun (U. Southern California) awarded the 2024 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Ageing Research.  

https://www.afar.org/news/afar-is-pleased-to-announce-the-recipient-of-our-2024-vincent-cristofalo-rising-star-award-in-aging-research-b%C3%A9r%C3%A9nice-benayoun-phd

Karina Yaniv (Weizmann Institute of Science) awarded the 2024 European vascular Biology Organisation Lecture Award. 

https://evbo.org/index.php/2022/03/08/spotlight-on-evbo-members/

Itamar Harel (The Hebrew U.) Awarded the 2024 Krill Prive from the Wolf Foundation

https://wolffund.org.il/itamar-harel/

Ken Poss (Duke University) was awarded a 2024 Distinguished Faculty Award by the School of Medicine.

https://medschool.duke.edu/news/2024-distinguished-faculty-award-kenneth-poss-phd

Mary Mullins (U. Penn) receives the 2024 CAMB Community Service Award 

https://cdb.med.upenn.edu/2024/09/10/mary-mullins-receives-2024-camb-community-service-award/

Rebecca D. Burdine (Princeton U.) awarded the 2024 Harry and Audrey Angelman award by the Angelman Syndrome Foundation for Meritorious Service. 

https://www.angelman.org/

Peter Fabian (Masaryk University) Awarded an MU Rector’s Award for extraordinary international grant competition results. 

https://www.sci.muni.cz/en/current-news/dies-academicus-recognition-of-personalities-who-bring-distinction-to-our-faculty-and-the-university 

 Joan Metcalf Hedge (EPA, Office of Research and Development in Research Triangle Park) awarded the Rosalind Franklin Society Special Award in Science for an article she published in Zebrafish in 2023. 

 https://cals.ncsu.edu/news/animal-science-epa/

Hans Lochmüller awarded Researcher of the Year by U. Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Department of Medicine. 

https://lochmullerlab.org/news/dr-hanns-lochmuller-awarded-researcher-of-the-year-by-university-of-ottawa-and-the-ottawa-hospital-department-of-medicine/

Maklas Said al Marshoudi (U Technology and Applied Science, Muscat) was awarded the Environmental and Biological Resources Prize at the 10th National Research Awards in Oman.

https://www.muscatdaily.com/2023/12/04/oman-announces-national-research-award-winners/ or https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1147471/oman/cadmiums-alarming-effects-on-male-zebrafish-revealed 

Marvin Cortez (mentor Rebecca D. Burdine, Princeton) and Brittney Voigt (mentor Ryan Gray, U. Texas at Austin) awarded presentation/participation awards at the 2024 Structural Birth Defects Meeting.

https://www.sdbonline.org/meeting?ResourceID=4209

Annika Nürnberger (mentor Didier Stainier) Esra JN Erkut and Casey Carlisle (mentor Ian Scott, SickKids Toronto), Gülsüm Kayman Kürekçi (mentor Rubén Marín-Juez, CHU Staine-Justine) and Wei-Han Lang (mentor Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Academia Sinica) won awards at 2024 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference. 

https://cpi-online.de/academynews/annika-nurnberger-receives-weinstein-cvd-presentation-award/  (there isn’t a link for each person so just link Annika’s to her name)

Millie Race (mentors Clare Buckley and Kristian Franze Cambridge U.) won the Sammy Lee award for her presentation at the 2024 Young Embryologist Network Symposium. 

https://thenode.biologists.com/different-ways-to-build-a-brain/research

Ida Marie Astad Jentoft (mentor Melina Schuh, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen) and Johannes Maximilian Kappel (mentors Herwig Baier and Johannes Larsch, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried) were awarded 2024 Otto Hahn Medals for outstanding scientific achievements, in connection with their doctorate.

https://www.mpg.de/prizes/otto-hahn-medal

Luigi Petrucco (mentor Ruben Portugues, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Münich) awarded the 2024 FKNE FENS-Kavali PhD thesis prize. 

https://fenskavlinetwork.org/mentoring/fkne-phd-thesis-prize/

Ethan Hagen (mentor Trevor Hamilton, MacEwan U. and U. Alberta) awarded an inaugural Personnel Award for Indigenous Scholars from Brain Canada Foundation, the BIHR institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, and the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada to support his doctoral studies.

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/medicine/news/2024/07/ethan-hagen-receives-personnel-award-for-indigenous-scholars.html

Muthukumar Karuppsawamy (mentor Matthew Alexander, U. Alabama at Birmingham) has been named a Civitan Emerging Scholar by the Civitan International Research Center for neurodevelopmental disorders for his postdoctoral research. 

https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/3064-two-researchers-named-emerging-scholar-award-winners-for-2024-2025

Kruuttika Satbhi (mentor Alicia Timme-Laragy U. Mass Amherst) placed first for the ASIO Dr. Dharm Singh Postdoctoral Fellow Best Abstract award and placed second for the Gabriel Plaa Mechanisms Award while 

Madeline Tompach (mentor Alicia Timme-Laragy U. Mass Amherst) placed second in the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section Graduate student Poster competition at the 2024 Society of Toxicology 63rd Annual Meeting. 

https://www.umass.edu/news/article/environmental-health-science-lab-researchers-receive-2024-society-toxicology-awards

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