Welcome to our new research intern, Payton!

We’re happy to have a new research intern join our lab this week, newly graduated from Valparaiso University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry and Biology. Time to celebrate with ice cream!

Welcome Payton!

Chris wins the WISL award for communicating PhD research to the Public!

The Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy invites doctoral candidates in science and engineering
to include a chapter in their Ph.D. thesis that describes their scholarly research to non-science audiences.

Chris won for his chapter on "Finding the bottleneck in brain rejuvenation: mechanisms underlying
neural stem cell quiescence exit."

Congratulations!

http://scifun.org/Thesis_Awards/thesis_awards.html

Aging Science Talks - Stem cell aging Symposium

Darcie will Chair a Stem cell aging symposium for the Aging Science Talks community. Speakers include:

Saul Villeda, UCSF

Marlen Knobloch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Yukiko Yamashita, MIT/Whitehead

Maria Llorens-Martin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

New review in the journal Cytoskeleton

One of Chris’ reviews written during our safer-at-home time will be published in Cytoskeleton and is online now! Congrats Chris!

Vimentin's side gig: regulating cellular proteostasis in mammalian systems

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33190414/

PMID: 33190414

Good luck and farewell!

Another farewell goes out to our lab manager Kayla, who has been with the lab for 4 years! We wish you all the best in your next steps! We’ll miss you!

 
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Darcie is awarded a Vallee Scholar Award!

Press release:

In this unprecedented year, when the world needs exceptional scientific research, the Vallee Foundation is proud to award $1.8 million to six new Vallee Scholars. The Vallee Scholar program provides unrestricted funding for national and international junior faculty at a critical stage in their tenure-track careers. “The awards committee was extremely impressed by the breadth and vision of this year’s candidates and the selection was difficult,” said committee chair Wade Harper, Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology, and Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. "Each of these brilliant young Vallee Scholars brings new and exciting technologies to problems ranging from neuroscience to cancer to the interactions of virus with humans including during previous pandemics, all areas with enormous implications for human health.”

The Vallee Scholar Awards Program recognizes outstanding early career scientists at a critical juncture in their careers. Each Scholar receives $300,000 in discretionary funds to be spent over four years for basic biomedical research. Candidates are competitively selected based on the originality and innovation of their science, the quality of their proposal as evidenced by ideas and execution, and their record of accomplishment.  Since 2013, 35 junior faculty have been appointed Vallee Scholars for an investment total of more than $9.5 million.

Awardees are:

Weizhe Hong, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and of Neurobiology at the University of California Los Angeles

Dan Landau, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Darcie L. Moore, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pontus Skoglund, PhD, Group Leader of the Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, London

Michael Yartsev, PhD, Assistant Professor in University of California, Berkeley's Department of Bioengineering, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Li Zhao, PhD, Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics at The Rockefeller University

About the Vallee Foundation
The Vallee Foundation was established by Bert and Kuggie Vallee as their legacy to the advancement of medical science and medical education. The Foundation stimulates development of interdisciplinary sciences related to human health by promoting interaction between productive scientists worldwide.

https://www.thevalleefoundation.org/news

Congratulations and Farewell!

This month we have 2 of our wonderful lab teammates heading on to new and exciting paths!

Tiaira graduated with her M.S. and is beginning her PhD in Education Policy.

Jieun will head to Jennifer Garrison’s lab at the Buck Institute to enjoy her post-bac year.

We will MISS YOU!!!!!!!!

Winner of the UW-Madison Cool Science Image Contest 2020

Chris and Tiaira worked together to create and image the primary mouse neural stem cells with H2B-mCherry knocked into the ROSA locus, and vimentin endogenously tagged with mNeon. Here young mouse neural stem cells are exiting from quiescence, where they enter the cell cycle and upregulate vimentin protein.

https://neuro.wisc.edu/2020/06/10/morrow-and-porter-of-the-moore-lab-named-winners-of-cool-science-image-contest-2020/

Paper is published in Cell Stem Cell!

Our paper about how quiescent neural stem cells use vimentin and aggresomes to exit quiescence comes out today in Cell Stem Cell (online version).

https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(20)30018-7

See some news about the paper here:

https://news.wisc.edu/newly-identified-cellular-trash-removal-program-helps-create-new-neurons/

Darcie is interviewed for The Scientist

Darcie is featured in an e-book offered by The Scientist’s Rising Stars in Neuroscience:

https://offers.the-scientist.com/rising-stars-in-neuroscience-ebook

Welcome to our new graduate students!

Max Frenkel and Bo Peng, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) students, have joined the lab to pursue their PhD. Welcome to the family!

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Elizabeth Thompson and Eden Zewdie graduated with their Bachelors degrees from UW-Madison! Congratulations! Elizabeth will spend a gap year in the lab working as a research intern, and Eden will begin a PhD program at UNC in the fall!