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DATE CHANGE
Social has been moved to Monday, June 8!!!
Come celebrate with MODTS with a free social Tuesday, May 26! Come meet the new program director and other students and celebrate the end of the spring semester!
RSVP to Sam! (email found on flyer)
@UTSWGradSchool @docdeeodphd
Come celebrate with MODTS with a free social Tuesday, May 26! Come meet the new program director and other students and celebrate the end of the spring semester!
RSVP to Sam! (email found on flyer)
@UTSWGradSchool @docdeeodphd
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Congrats to @UTSW_MODTS student @emilyrnett for successfully defending her PhD today!!!
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MODTS welcomes new students to @UTSWGradSchool @UTSW_MODTS
Come get some pizza and learn more about the MODTS track!
We are so excited to have Dr. Danielle Robertson @docdeeodphd as our program’s new director!! Information on how to apply to this track will be coming soon.
UTSW Mechanisms of Disease/Translational Sciences retweeted
Congrats to Danielle Robertson, O.D., Ph.D., @docdeeodphd, on her January 1, 2026 appointment to Director of @UTSWGradSchool's Mechanisms of Disease and Translational Sciences (@UTSW_MODTS) track! gsbs.utsouthwestern.edu/prog…🥳👏
ALT Danielle Robertson, O.D., Ph.D.
🚨Another MODTS student, Collette LaVigne, will be defending her thesis on Monday, September 22!🚨 Tune in online or come in person!
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Congrats to the 2025 winners of OBI's Research Day poster contest – Haley Moore, @UTSWmstp student in @KonopkaLab & @TexasMemory; @RM_Neuro, Neuroscience @UTSWGradSchool in Roberts Lab; & @Irvin_TGarza, Genetics, Development and Disease @UTSWGradSchool, in the Gray Lab.
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🚨 We’re officially on LinkedIn! 🚨
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Southwestern is now sharing student stories, research highlights, and career journeys—where science meets professional growth.
🔗Connect & Grow with Us: bit.ly/3YijXGn
#UTSW #PhDLife
Congratulations to our MODTS student @Irvin_TGarza !
Congratulations to @Irvin_TGarza who was awarded a @UTSWBrain Sprouts grant. Irvin is engineering novel #AAVs for neuronal, neuromuscular, and muscular diseases using machine guided learning. Sprouts grants support trainees exploring new directions in #brain research.
Tis the season for dissertation defenses!
Come support our MODTS students as they encounter their last hurdle of graduate school.
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📢 SAVE-the-DATE - Jan 30th, 2025
PROVIDES welcomes Dr. Sonya Neal (@Neal_Lab), Associate Professor,
@HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCSD.
“The role of rhomboid superfamily Guardians of membrane-related processes and homeostasis”
Congratulations to 4th year student, Emily Nettesheim (@emilyrnett ), for having a newly published paper on clinical characterizations of CLN7 disease. This is work culminating from her MODTS internship and collaboration with the UTSW Pediatric Neurology Department!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
If you're interested in reading it, here is a link to the paper!
