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News and achievements

Congratulations to Margeaux Shelley and Rita Ononiwu for completing their 1st rotation in the Arndt Lab.

October 30, 2024 

Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren wins the Best Poster Prize at the ASBMB Transcription meeting. Congratulations!

September 29, 2024 

The Arndt lab presents at the ASBMB "Transcriptional regulation by chromatin and RNA polymerase" Meeting in Alexandria, Va. 

Karen (talk) , Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren (poster) and Tasniem Fetian (Poster) 
September 26-29, 2024  

New paper from the Arndt Lab is out. Congratulations, Alex!  
September 24, 2024 

Congratulations to Alex Francette for a successful thesis defense!

September 10, 2024 

Karen Arndt is awarded the PittBioSci Departmental Impact Award 
April 18, 2024 

Karen Arndt presents a seminar at Stony Brook University 

April 4, 2024 

Alex Francette presents a talk at the Steel City Chromatin Club 

March 28, 2024 

Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the Pitt Grad Expo 

March 28, 2024 

Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Leo B. and Teresa Y. Wegemer Endowed STEM Fellowship for the academic year 2024/25  
March 27, 2024 

Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the GSA TAGC24 meeting in Washington, DC.  

March 9, 2024 

Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren presents a talk in the Hillman Cancer Center Genome Stability Group Work-In-Progress series 

February 5, 2024 

Alex Francette wins travel award and presents at ABRCMS in Phoenix, AZ

November 15, 2023 

The Arndt lab wins the Best Poster award at the Annual PittBioSci departmental retreat 
October 20, 2023

Karen Arndt speaks at the Cold Spring Harbor Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription meeting 

August 29, 2023 

Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Mary P. Edmonds Award for the publication of an outstanding research paper by a graduate student  
August 24, 2023 

Aakash Grover is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First Year of Graduate Study 
August 24, 2023 

The Arndt lab presents at the Penn State's 39th Summer Symposium on Chromatin and Gene Regulation in State College, PA.

Alex Francette (talk), Sarah Tripplehorn (poster), Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren (poster), Tasniem Fetian (Poster) 
August 6-9, 2023  

Sarah Tripplehorn wins a travel award to attend Penn State's 39th Summer Symposium on Chromatin and Gene Regulation 

July 2023 

Alex Francette is awarded the Provost’s Dissertation Year Fellowship for Historically Underrepresented Doctoral Students for the Academic year 2023-2024 

Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the Hillman Cancer Center Genome Stability Program Retreat 

June 20, 2023 

Karen Arndt speaks at the Steel City Chromatin Club 

May 25, 2023 

Tasniem Fetian presents a talk at the Hillman Cancer Center Genome Stability Group Work-In-Progress seminar series 

May 3, 2023 

Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Andrew P. Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024

March 5, 2023 

The Arndt lab presents at PittGene: Annual Pitt Genetics Retreat at the University of Pittsburgh.

Sarah Tripplehorn (talk), Alex Francette (poster), Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren (poster), Tasniem Fetian (Poster) 
November 30, 2022 

Alex Francette presents at the Fragile Nucleosome virtual seminar series 
October 26, 2022 

Alex Francette and Tasniem Fetian present posters at the ASBMB Transcriptional regulation: Chromatin and RNA polymerase II in Snowbird, UT. 
September 29 – October 2, 2022 

Sarah Tripplehorn and Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren present posters at the GSA Yeast Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.  
August 17–21, 2022 

Alex Francette is awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship to attend the Gordon Research Conference 
May, 2022

Alex Francette wins the Outstanding Poster Presentation award at Pitt Grad Expo 
March 18th, 2022

Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren is awarded the Andrew P. Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2022-2023 
April 12, 2022 

Tasniem Fetian is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First Year of Graduate Study 
August, 2021

Sarah Tripplehorn wins the Outstanding Poster Presentation award at Pitt Grad Expo 
April 12, 2021

Sanchirmaa Namjilsuren is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First  
Year of Graduate Study 
August, 2020 

Sarah Tripplehorn is awarded the NIH T32 Research Grant for the academic year 2020/2021 
October 12, 2020

Alex Francette is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support the next three years of his graduate career 
April 21, 2020

Alex Francette is awarded the Ivy McManus Award for Academic Excellence in First Year of Graduate Study 
July, 2019

Alex Francette is awarded the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship for the academic year 2018-2019

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