Bobzin L, Roberts RR, Chen HJ, Crump JG, Merrill AE. (2021) Development and maintenance of tendons and ligaments. Development. 2021 Apr 15;148(8):dev186916. doi: 10.1242/dev.186916. Epub 2021 Apr 16. PMID: 33913478; PMCID: PMC8077520.

We are excited to welcome three new students to Merrill Lab: Arshia Bhojwani (PhD student in the Development, Stem Cell, & Regeneration program), Sebastian Ko (Master’s student in Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine), and Catherine Choi (DDS student).

Austin Nahouray has joined the lab as part of USC’s Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry Summer Research Fellow Program.

Audrey Nickle gave a platform presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on FGF Signaling.

Congratulations to Audrey Nickle on being awarded an F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from NIDCR. Read more in the Dean’s Bi-Weekly Message!

Lauren Bobzin, Audrey Nickle, and Aaron Huang presented posters at the 2022 USC Dentistry Research Day. Visit the Research Day website to view their posters.

Amy Merrill has been named a recipient of the 2022 USC Mentoring Award for mentoring graduate students. Fight on!

Amy Merrill chaired the Musculoskeletal sessions at the 2022 FGFR Syndromes Collaborative Research Network Conference.

Amy Merrill has been named Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.

Audrey Nickle has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship on USC’s NIH/NIDCR T90 training grant in Craniofacial Biology.