Maria Pacheco Selected for USC’s Graduate Student Government Professional Development Grant
Maria Pacheco is selected for USC’s Graduate Student Government Professional Development Grant in February of 2025.
Category Archives: Merrill Lab News
Amy Merrill Presents at 5th Fusion Conference
Amy Merrill gives an invited presentation at the 5th Fusion Conference on Growth Factors in Regeneration and Regenerative Medicine in February of 2025 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Amy Merrill Awarded NIDCR’s R35 SOAR Award
Amy Merrill is awarded NIDCR’s R35 SOAR Award to study mechanisms that coordinate development, assembly, and maintenance of the craniofacial skeleton as multi-tissue system. (September, 2024)
Arshia Bhojwani Wins for Best Presentation by a Graduate Student at Annual Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology Meeting
Arshia Bhojwani was selected to give a presentation at the 47th Annual Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology meeting in Kansas City, MO in September of 2024 and won an award for best presentation by a graduate student.
Audrey Nickle Wins Award at 47th Annual Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology Meeting
Audrey Nickle wins a AAA-sponsored poster presentation award at the 47th Annual Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology meeting in Kansas City, MO in September of 2024.
Amy Merrill Appointed Acting Associate Dean of Research for the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Amy is appointed to serve as Acting Associate Dean of Research, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC in August 2024.
Amy Merrill and Gage Crump Awarded Multi-PI R01
Amy Merrill and Gage Crump are awarded a multi-PI R01 to study the role of LGRs in jaw development in July of 2024.
Amy Merrill Presents at the GRC on Craniofacial Morphogenesis Tissue Regeneration
Amy gave an invited presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (Barcelona, Spain in May 2024).
Nickle is elected as Chair of the 2026 FGF GRS
Audrey Nickle was elected by her peers as the next chair of the Gordon Research Seminar on Fibroblast Growth Factors in Development and Disease.
Nickle wins award at the FGF GRC
Graduate student Audrey Nickle was presented with the best graduate student speaker award at the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling in Development and Disease, which was sponsored by Developmental Dynamics.