NEWS

Bess was recently awarded the 2025 Rainwater Prize for Innovative Early-Career Scientist. Established in honor of Robert Rainwater, the Rainwater Prize celebrates early-career scientists who demonstrate exceptional potential and make notable discoveries in their fields. Awarded annually, this prize highlights originality, impact, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge.

We welcome Dr. Aly Cavalier, a recent graduate of Tom LaRocca's lab from University of Colorado Boulder and Dr. Yutaka Yamamoto, fly geneticist extraordinaire, to our team. We are thrilled to have these two highly skilled scientists on board!

The Greater Boston Medical Student Training in Aging Research (GBMSTAR) Program at Harvard Medical School hosted Zach for their 2024 summer internship while our lab was in transit from UTHSA to Brown. This highly competitive program is dedicated to helping medical students conduct clinically-oriented aging research and teaches foundational concepts in geriatric medicine. During his time in Boston, Zach worked in the lab of Dr. George Church at the Wyss Institute for Biologica

Please join us in congratulationg Claira Sohn, Frost lab Ph.D. student, who just received notice from the NIH NINDS that her F31 will be funded!! Claira recently presented her work at the Gordon Conferences on Intermediate Filaments in Barcelona, Spain. Read about Claira's project.

The lab has relocated to Brown University in Providence, RI, as Bess begins her appointment as the Salame-Feraud Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, a joint initiative between the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Division of Biology and Medicine. We are looking forward to the many opportunities for collaboration in the wide range of disciplines at Brown, as well as continued bridging of basic science with clinical studies.

We are excited to announce a new Frost lab publication focused on the effects of pathogenic tau on protein translation: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acel.14245 This study was led by Dr. Gabbe Zuniga, who was inspired to analyze the effects of tau on translation due to her previous discovery that error-containing RNA transcripts accumulate in tauopathy due to failed clearance via nonsense-mediated RNA decay. In the current study, Gabbe found that the rate of tra

Frost lab Research Associate Melissa Soliz will begin her first year in Penn State's MSTP program in the fall of 2024. We are absolutely...

Paul will be joining the Brown University Center for Alzheimer's Disease as Lead Biostatistician.

Lulu has now advanced to candidacy after successfully passing her qualifying exam on Wednesday this week. Please join us in congratulating her!

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