Merrill awarded R01 to study tendon-bone attachments
Amy Merrill has been awarded an R01 grant from NIH NIDCR to study development of the tendon-bone attachments in the jaw.
Category Archives: Merrill Lab News
Bobzin wins award at USC Dentistry Research Day
Graduate student Lauren Bobzin was presented with an award for her poster “Fgfr2 regulates establishment and commitment of fontanelle progenitor cells” at USC Dentistry Research Day 2021.
Merrill elected VP of SCGDB
Amy Merrill has been elected Vice President of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology.
Merrill speaks at Born a Hero symposium for FGFR syndromes
Amy Merrill presented at an October 2020 symposium hosted by Born A Hero, a research foundation dedicated to FGFR syndromes.
Bobzin wins 1st prize at SCGDB meeting
Lauren Bobzin was awarded first place student poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology.
Yi Sui & Siyan Wang defend master’s theses
Congratulations to Yi Sui, who successfully defended her master’s thesis on the role of Fgfr2 signaling in hair follicle cycling, and to Siyan Wang, who successfully defended her master’s thesis on the role of Runx2 in tendon-bone attachment unit development!
Merrill speaks at GRC on Craniofacial Morphogenesis & Tissue Regeneration
Amy Merrill delivered a presentation at the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration in Lucca, Italy.
2019 news
November 2019 ~Ryan gives seminar at CSU San Marcos October 2019 ~Amy speaks at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology July 2019 ~NEW PUB on the on the role of FGF signaling in regulating development of tendon-to-bone attachment June 2019 ~NEW PUB reviews nuclear Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor signaling […]
2018 news
September 2018 ~NEW PUB on the role of Fgfr2 in the development of the middle ear. August 2018 ~Joanna defends her Doctoral dissertation! April 2018 ~Ryan wins 2nd Place Poster Award at Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC Research Day. ~Diana speaks at the American Association of Anatomists Meeting at Experimental Biology. ~Diana wins 1st […]
2017 news
September 2017 ~Ryan defends his Doctoral dissertation! June 2017 ~NEW PUB on the etiological role of nucleolar stress in Bent Bone Dysplasia syndrome is published in Human Molecular Genetics. May 2017 ~Ryan is awarded USC’s Order of the Torch for his dedication to leadership and community service. ~Ryan gives speech for the Keck School of […]