The Rawls lab is happy to welcome Lizze Reich as our new Research Technician II. She will work closely with the Rawls lab and Duke Z-CORE to support our zebrafish projects.

Congratulations and farewell to Cecelia Kelly and Jayanth Jawahar on their successful defenses of their Ph.D. dissertations!  Cece is moving on to be a Lab Research Analyst in the Functional Genomics Core at Duke, and… Farewell to Cecelia Kelly and Jayanth Jawahar!

The Rawls lab bids a fond farewell to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Matt Tillman as he moves to a new position as a Medical Science Liaison at Eli Lilly & Co.

The Rawls lab is happy to welcome Peyton Moore, a new Ph.D. student in Duke’s Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Program.

The labs of John Rawls (Duke University), Balfour Sartor (UNC Chapel Hill), and Elizabeth Shank (U. Mass.) are happy and grateful to have received a new NIDDK R01 grant to define the genetic determinants of… Rawls lab receives new collaborative R01 grant to study human gut bacterium Phocaeicola vulgatus!

Congratulations and farewell to Gilberto Padilla Mercado on his new position as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellow and Data Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Maggie was awarded a F30 NRSA to support her research into how enteroendocrine cells within the gut epithelium sense and adapt to nutritional and microbial stimuli. Matt was awarded a F32 NRSA to support his… Graduate student Maggie Morash and postdoctoral fellow Matt Tillman awarded NIDDK Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowships

This article describes a genetic analysis of all three members of the HNF4 family of transcription factors in zebrafish, uncovering distinct and redundant roles in intestinal development and host-microbiota interactions plus striking conservation with mice.… Jenny Heppert and colleagues publish article in Genetics