Postdoctoral Achievements

• Grant - NIH/NIGMS Kirschstein NRSA (F32) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2010
• Grant - NIH/NIDDK Kirschstein NRSA (T32) Molecular Endocrinology Training Grant, 2007-2008
• Meeting - Oral presentation, 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference (Mar 3-8, 2009), "Ecdysone regulates female germline stem cell division and self-renewal."

• Grant - NIH Kirschstein NRSA (F32) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007-09
• Paper - Bolger T.A., Folkmann A.W., Tran E.J., Wente S.R. The mRNA export factor Gle1 and inositol hexakisphosphate regulate distinct stages of translation. Cell. 2008 Aug 22; 134(4): 624-33.
• Paper - Tran E.J., Bolger T.A., Wente S.R. Snapshot: nuclear transport. Cell. 2007 Oct 19; 131(2):420.
• Meeting - Oral presentation: 2008 Meeting on Translational Control, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

Brian L. Nelms

• Grant - American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007-2009
• Award- Best Postdoctoral Talk, 2008 Program in Developmental Biology Retreat
• Award- Best Postdoctoral Poster, 2008 Meeting of the Southeast Stem Cell Consortium (Athens, GA)

• Grant - American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008-2010
• Paper - R. Nambiar, R.E.McConnell and M.J. Tyska; "Control of cell membrane tension by myosin I"; submitted
• Meeting - Oral presentation at 52nd Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in Long Beach, CA; February 2008

Bhaskar Sarmah

• Grant - The American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship for the year 2005-2007
• Paper - Sarmah B, Latimer AJ, Appel B, and Wente SR. Inositol Polyphosphates Regulate Zebrafish Left-Right Asymmetry. Developmental Cell 2005; 9:133-45.
• Paper - Sarmah B, Winfrey VP, Olson GE, Appel B, and Wente. A role for the inositol kinase Ipk1 in ciliary beating and length maintenance.
  PNAS 2007; 104(50): 19843-8.
• Paper -Sarmah B and Wente SR. Dual functions for the Schizosaccharomyces pombe inositol kinase Ipk1 in nuclear mRNA export and polarized cell growth. Eukaryotic Cell 2009; 8(2): 134-46. [Epub 2008 Dec 1]
• Meeting - Oral presentation: 7th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development & Genetics, Madison, Wisconsin, June 14 - 18, 2006.
• Other - Travel award to ASCB mtg 2005

• Grant - Institutional Predoctoral Reproductive Biology Training grant, 2T32HD007043, 2008
• Grant - NIH RO1 Minority Supplement Grant, R01 GM069875-01A2S, 2003-2006
• Paper - Jessica R. Von Stetina, Susanne Tranguch, Sudhansu K. Dey, Laura A. Lee, Byeong Cha, and Daniela Drummond-Barbosa. a-Endosulfine is a conserved protein required for oocyte maturation in Drosophila. Development, 135(22): 3697-706, 2008.
• Paper - D Pretto, R Barco, J Rivera, N Neel, M D Gustavson and J E Eid. The synovial sarcoma translocation protein SYT-SSX2 recruits b-catenin to the nucleus and associates with it in an active complex. Oncogene, 25: 3661–3669. 2006.
• Grant - Institutional Predoctoral Developmental Biology Training grant, 2T32HD007502, 2001-2003
• Award- Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation- 10th Annual Program in Developmental Biology Retreat, Paris Landing State 2006
• Award- 4th Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation- Southeast Regional Society for Developmental Biology Meeting 2006, Nashville, TN.
• Talk - Jessica Von Stetina, Susanne Tranguch, Sudhansu Dey, Ethan Lee, Laura Lee, Daniela Drummond-Barbosa. a-Endosulfine is a conserved protein required for meiotic maturation that interacts with an E3 ubiquitin ligase and regulates Twine/CDC25 levels. 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Abstract 152. (April 2-6, 2008). San Diego, CA.
• Fellowship - Whitehead Institute/MIT Dr. Terry Orr-Weaver May, 2009

• Grant - NIH Kirschstein NRSA (F32) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006-08
• Paper - Bolger T.A., Folkmann A.W., Tran E.J., Wente S.R. The mRNA export factor Gle1 and inositol hexakisphosphate regulate distinct stages of translation. Cell. 2008 Aug 22; 134(4): 624-33.
• Paper - Tran E.J., Bolger T.A., Wente S.R. Snapshot: nuclear transport. Cell. 2007 Oct 19; 131(2):420.
• Meeting - Oral presentation at RNA Society, Madison, WI 2007