Mohammed Hassan recently presented at the WashU MRC Symposium. He presented his research on how dietary habits shape how our next generation will look like.
Mohamed Hassan presents at Science SLAM; wins travel award (Links to an external site)
Category: Awards
Department on Bone and Mineral Diseases celebrates Dr. Erica Scheller on her promotion to Associate Professor. (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Dr. Erica Scheller on her promotion to Associate Professor. Her contributions and dedication have earned her this well-deserved recognition. Congratulations, Dr. Scheller!
Scheller Lab presents posters at MRC Symposium (Links to an external site)
The Scheller Lab members presented their posters at the Musculoskeletal Research Symposium while Dr. Scheller presented her postdoc Dr. Muhammad Hassan’s research. The annual MRC symposium always challenges us to grow by putting our work out there. Congratulations to our experienced pros and first time presenters, and especially Xiao Zhang for taking home one of […]
Anna Li and Anurag Majumdar selected as BioSURF fellows (Links to an external site)
Undergraduates Anna Li and Anurag Majumdar were selected to join the 2022 class of BioSURF summer research fellows. They will spend 10-weeks full time over the summer pursuing their projects on the origins of skeletal innervation and neural regulation of bone marrow adiposity.
Presentations and awards at the 2022 MRC/CRM Symposium (Links to an external site)
We recently attended the MRC/CRM Symposium. Postdoc Jen Brazil and 3rd year graduate student Xiao Zhang gave oral presentations while Ivana Shen, Anurag Majumdar, and Anna Li/Alec Beeve presented posters. Alec Beeve/Anna Li were selected to receive an outstanding poster award.
Alec Beeve awarded NIH F31 fellowship (Links to an external site)
4th year BME student Alec Beeve was recently awarded an NRSA F31 fellowship from the NIH to support his work entitled “Neuroskeletal crosstalk in load induced bone formation”. Congratulations to Alec on his first research award!
Welcome and congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Hassan (Links to an external site)
Welcome to Dr. Hassan as he officially joins the lab to begin his postdoctoral fellowship training. In addition, congratulations to Mohamed on his acceptance into the Leadership and Management in Action Program in the division of Postdoctoral Affairs at Washington University for Fall of 2021.
Scheller Lab to receive funding from the Diabetic Complications Consortium (Links to an external site)
The lab was selected to receive 1-year of funding to support the study of Sarm1, neuropathy, and bone health in adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes. We hope that this will lead to new opportunities for early intervention with neuroskeletal therapeutics.
Xiao Zhang wins two research awards for work on marrow fat (Links to an external site)
Xiao Zhang won two of the prestigious awards for research at the recent BMA2020 meeting. After an independent committee review, his oral presentation “Fat in a fatless mouse: a novel origin of maladapted bone marrow adipocytes with age and disease” won 1st place in the best abstract category. In addition, his 2nd abstract “Neural contributions […]
Graduate student Alec Beeve awarded BMES travel award (Links to an external site)
Mr. Beeve was selected as a recipient of the Department of Bioengineering travel award to attend the BMES conference in San Diego, CA where he will present his work on the acute and chronic regulation of bone by bioelectric stimulation of the sciatic nerve. Congratulations Alec!
Ivana Shen awarded 2020 BioSURF Fellowship (Links to an external site)
Ms. Ivana Shen was awarded a 2020 BioSURF fellowship to pursue her work on the relationship between nerve quality and bone health in mice and humans with diabetes. Congratulations, Ivana!