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Laura Cliffe of Huddersfield Yorkshire England, lately of Athens, GA., aged 34 passed away on Saturday, October 11, 2014. She was born, January 15th, 1980, to Barbara Cliffe and the late Ian Cliffe of Huddersfield, England.

Shaying Zhao has received a five year $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to identify colorectal cancer driver genes using a novel dog-human comparative genomics and oncology approach. Congratulations Shaying!

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Lopes da Rosa-Spiegler (Sabatini lab) on receiving an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship to study epigenetic regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription  in Trypanosoma brucei.

Congratulations to Dr. Yunzhou Wei (Terns lab) on receiving an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the capture of enemy (e.g. virus) sequences by CRISPR-Cas immune systems in bacteria and archaea.

A recent paper by Dr. Paula Lemons that was published in CBE - Life Sciences Education was selected as an Editor's Choice in Science.  You can read more here: Science 22 March 2013