March 2021

Four Bolterstein lab students (Vada Becker, Gina Ishu, Rut Ortiz, and Shahida Qazi) will be presenting posters at the 62nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference at the end of the month. This will be everyone’s first fly meeting!

Vada Becker (3rd year lab member and MARC scholar) officially accepted the M3D PhD program at the University of Washington, which she will start int the fall. Congratulations and best of luck, Vada!

November 2020

Lab member and MARC scholar, Rut Ortiz, received an award for her poster presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Congratulations, Rut!

September 2019

Our paper, Evidence for premature aging in a Drosophila model of Werner syndrome, was just accepted to Experimental Gerontology this morning. Congrats to the student authors: Deirdre Cassidy, Derek Epiney, Charlotte Salameh, and Tracy Zhou!

July 2019

Congrats to Vada Becker and Derek Epiney for winning travel awards from the NEIU foundation and the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society to attend the EMGS annual meeting in September. We’re looking forward to the meeting!

May 2019

Congrats, Charlotte Salameh on your graduation with honors! Best of luck in dental school!

December 2018

Congratulations to Chris Corso and Debbie Onofrei on graduating with their BS in Biology. Way to go!

July 2018

Congrats to Debbie Onofrei for winning a travel award to present her research at the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society meeting in September! We’re looking forward to visiting San Antonio!

August 2015

Imad was awarded a travel scholarship to present his research at the 2015 SACNAS National Conference in Washington DC in October. Congratulations, Imad!