July 2024
Malek receives a T32 award from the Chemistry Biology Interface (CBI) Program for 2024-2025
Rachel and Carter start medical school at Sidney Kimmel Medical College – Thomas Jefferson University. Tanis lab forever!
May 2024
Rachel defends her senior thesis “Investigating the Protective Effects of Vitamin B12 on Amyloid-beta Proteotoxicity in a C. elegans model of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Jessica receives tenure and is promoted to Associate Professor!
April 2024
Emylee defends her MS thesis “The Impact of High Dietary Glucose on Amyloid-beta Proteotoxicity in C. elegans”
Rachel is inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most selective honor society, receives a scholarship from the Delaware Community Foundation to attend medical school.
March 2024
Malek, Karli, Lexi, Nahin, Tao, and Jessica attend The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) in Washington, DC. Malek gave a talk and everyone else gave posters 🙂
Karli receives the 1st place award in the C. elegans poster competition and an honorable mention poster award from the Genetics Society of America at TAGC
January 2024
Seven members of the Tanis lab attend the annual Biology Research Day (BiRD) – Malek is awarded 1st place for her lightning talk!
December 2023
Malek receives the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development from the Genetics Society of America. She will use this award to support her travel to The Allied Genetics Conference.
Tao, Nahin, Malek, Karli, and Jessica attend the Delaware Neuroscience Symposium – Malek receives 2nd place for her poster presentation
July 2023
Karli is accepted into the University of Delaware Chemistry Biology Interface (CBI) Program and is awarded a T32 fellowship for 2023-2024
June 2023
Malek, Emylee, and Jessica attend the 24th International C. elegans meeting in Glasgow Scotland – Malek receives honorable mention for her poster presentation!
May 2023
Congratulations to Tanis lab graduates John, Zach, Vasili, and Carter!
McKenna Millar receives the Richard M. Johnson Memorial Award, given annually to a junior undergraduate who exemplifies the ideals of sound scholarship and interest in research for its own sake
Vasilios Lomis receives the Paynter Memorial Award, given annually to the graduating senior with the highest academic index who is going to medical school
John Salsini-Tobias is awarded the L. Leon Campbell Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Senior Award; this award is given to a natural sciences major who has demonstrated outstanding intellectual promise and a commitment to scientific research
John Salsini-Tobias and Vasilios Lomis are inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most selective honor society
April 2023
Emylee Kerslake receives a Graduate Scholars Award to fund her research on the impact of glucose on amyloid beta induced proteotoxicity
January 2023
Seven members of the Tanis lab present their work at the inaugural Biological Sciences Research Day
Emylee Kerslake receives 2nd place for her presentation at the first annual Biological Sciences Research Day at the University of Delaware
December 2022
Flood in the Tanis lab on Christmas 🙁
October 2022
Five members of the Tanis lab present their research at the Annual Delaware Neuroscience Symposium
Andy Lam receives 3rd place for his lightning talk at the Delaware Neuroscience Symposium
September 2022
Malek Elsayyid receives a graduate diversity fellowship to determine how the G-protein RAB-28 impacts extracellular vesicle biogenesis
May 2022
Andy Lam is the winner for the 2022 Carson’s Best Graduate Student Publication Award in the Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware; be sure to check out his 2021 Cell Reports paper
Congrats to Dr. Andy Lam and Dr. Michael Clupper!!!!
Jessica Tanis receives the Outstanding Honors Mentoring Award
Even rain couldn’t dampen the excitement of Tanis lab graduates at the University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences Convocation. Congrats on your graduation Dr. Michael Clupper, Dr. Andy Lam, Ime Nkanta (MS), Rachael Gill (MS), Allison Davis (BS), Karli Sunnergren (BS), and Katherine Wagner (BS)!!!