NEWS

We are excited to share that Frost lab undergraduate and rising junior Joanna Sohn was accepted to FlexMed at Mt. Sinai! The FlexMed program at the Icahn School of Medicine is a highly competitive early admissions program for medical school. Wowzer, Joanna, you are on a roll.

Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Thomas (pictured) and undergraduates Meredith Jenkins and Julianna Chang on their graduation!

Welcome to Aitana Zamora Varela, our summer undergraduate intern! Aitana is a rising senior at Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Neuroscience and Behavior and Psychology. During the regular year, Aitana works in the lab of Ken Colodner, where they study chromatin architecture in Drosophila models of tauopathy. In the Frost lab, Aitana is working with Ph.D. candidate Lulu Schulz to investigate mechanisms of retrotransposon-induced toxicity in tauopathy.

Props to Zach Uttke, Frost lab graduate student, who just received notice that his F30 will be funded by the National Institute on Aging!! The F30 program enhances the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students on the MD/PhD track. Zach is working to determine how nucleoside analogs such as 3TC reduce innate immune activation in response to pathogenic forms of tau.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sohn on the successful defense of her dissertation, "Investigating the role of nuclear mechanotransduction in physiological and pathological settings." Thank you to all who attended, and to Claira's committee members for their thoughtful input and questions throughout the dissertation process: Dr. Lizhen Chen (committee member) Dr. James Donald Lechleiter (committee member) Dr. David Libich (committee member) Dr. Gregg Gundersen (external