Wu Lab

Awards and Honors for the Wu Lab

Jian-Qiu Wu

  • 2009-2026 R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health
  • 2013-present   American Cancer Society Research Scholar
  • 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
  • 2019 Sanford Goldston Memorial Research Award from Ohio Cancer Research
  • 2009-2011 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from March of Dimes

Graduate Student Valerie Coffman:

  • First-author JCB paper on formins was selected to be highlighted by J. Cell Biology "In Focus" in 2013 at http://jcb.rupress.org/content/203/1/3.full
  • Awarded one-year Elizabeth Clay Howald Presidential Fellowship. Only two out of ~10,000 OSU graduate students receive this award each year.
  • Awarded 2nd place for a seminar presented at the Falkenthal Graduate Student Colloquium in the Department of Molecular Genetics at OSU.
  • American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Pre-doctoral Travel Award to attend the ASCB Annual Meeting in Denver, CO and Valerie was featured in the JANUARY/FEBRUARY ASCB NEWSLETTER.
  • First-author JCB paper was selected to be highlighted by J. Cell Biology "In Focus" in 2011 at http://jcb.rupress.org/content/195/4/539.full
  • Co-author paper was selected to be highlighted by J. Cell Biology JCB at: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/192/6/902.2.full
  • Awarded 1st place for a seminar presented at the Falkenthal Graduate Student Colloquium in the Department of Molecular Genetics at OSU.
  • Awarded two-year pre-doctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association, Great Rivers Affiliate. Amount: $46,000 plus tuition remission.
  • First-author MBoC paper was chosen by the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell to appear as an InCytes from MBC selection in the ASCB Newsletter
  • Berl Oakley Travel Award to attend the Plant and Fungal Cytoskeleton Conference at Lucca (Barga), Italy.

Graduate Student I-Ju Lee:

  • A best poster award at the Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium.
  • Awarded a two-year Pelotonia Graduate Fellowship. Amount: $54,000 plus tuition remission.
  • American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Pre-doctoral Travel Award to attend the ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
  • Selected to give an oral presentation at the Hayes Graduate Research Forum.

Graduate Student Ning Wang:

  • The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship.
  • First-author MBoC paper was chosen by the MBoC Editorial Board for Highlights. It appeared in the ASCB Newsletter at http://www.ascb.org/newsletters/2015/Jan-Feb/files/assets/basic-html/page51.html
  • First-author JCB paper was selected to be highlighted by J. Cell Biology at: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/205/3/284.2.full
  • Graduate Teaching Award.
  • American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Graduate Travel Award to attend the ASCB Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
  • Selected to give an oral presentation at the Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
  • Berl Oakley Travel Award to attend the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.
  • Awarded 2nd place for a seminar presented at the Falkenthal Graduate Student Colloquium in the Department of Molecular Genetics at OSU.
  • Awarded a university fellowship.

Graduate Student Yihua Zhu:

  • Awarded 1st place for a seminar presented at the Falkenthal Graduate Student Colloquium in the Department of Molecular Genetics at OSU.
  • Awarded a two-year Pelotonia Graduate Fellowship.
  • Awarded 1st place again for a seminar presented at the Falkenthal Graduate Student Colloquium in the Department of Molecular Genetics at OSU.
  • Berl Oakley Travel Award to attend the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Graduate Student Reshma Davidson:

  • Second place award for an oral presentation at the Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium in 2015.
  • Finished in 2nd place for the oral presentation at the 2014 Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
  • Second place award for an oral presentation at the Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium in 2014.
  • Second place award for an oral presentation at the Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium in 2013.

Graduate Student Yajun Liu:

  • Awarded a two-year Pelotonia Graduate Fellowship.
  • Won 1st place in oral presentation at the Molecular Life Sciences Graduate Programs Symposium
  • Won 2nd place in poster presentation at the Molecular Life Sciences Graduate Programs Symposium
  • American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Travel Award
  • Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Program Travel Grant

Undergraduate Student Katherine Zhang:

  • Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship
  • OSU STEP (Second-year Transformational Experience Program) Award
  • Jim Hopper Memorial Undergraduate Research Award (declined due to overlap with Pelotonia)
  • Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) Fellowship
  • Undergraduate Research Scholarship from Arts and Sciences Honors Program
  • Edward G. Mayers Scholarship
  • Bertram Thomas Memorial Fund Scholarship from Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Oral presentation at The Consortium Research Symposium
  • Poster presentation at Mol. Gen. Open House
  • Poster presentation at the Pelotonia symposium

Undergraduate Student Evelyn Goodyear:

  • Publish a coauthor paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell
    (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34910579/)
  • Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship
  • Poster presentations at OSU Undergraduate Research Festivals
  • Poster presentation at the Pelotonia symposium
  • Mayers Summer Research Fellowship
  • Undergraduate Research Scholarship from OSU Arts and Sciences Honors program
  • Currently attending the OSU Medical School.

Undergraduate Student Miguel Disbennett (co-mentored with Dr. Ruben Petreaca):

  • Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship
  • Successfully defended an honors thesis
  • Attended the Postbac program at University of Michigan
  • Co-authored a paper published in MDPI journal Methods Protocols
  • Poster presentation at the Pelotonia symposium
  • Currently attending the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate Student Shelby Naegele:

  • Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship
  • A coauthor paper published in the journal Cell Reports
    (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30840879/)
  • Presented a poster at Denman Research Forum at OSU
  • Currently attending the Medical school at Marshall University

Undergraduate Student Alexandra Russell:

  • A coauthor paper published in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell
    (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32432970/)
  • Successfully defended an honors thesis
  • Poster presentation at OSU Undergraduate Research Festival
  • Undergraduate Research Scholarship from OSU Arts and Sciences Honors program
  • Presented a poster at Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Gordon Research Conference August 12-17, 2018 at Proctor Academy, Andover, NH.

Undergraduate Student Tiffany Ko:

  • Jim Hopper Memorial Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Undergraduate Student Joanne Hyun:

  • A $2,500 Undergraduate Research Scholarship from College of Arts and Sciences Honors program in 2015.
  • A $12,000 Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship (final amount reduced due to other awards) in 2015.
  • A $3,500 Mayers Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarship in 2015.

Undergraduate Student Cally McGee:

  • Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship in 2012. Amount: $12,000.
  • Selected but declined to be a 2012 Summer Research Fellow funded through the Undergraduate Research Office at OSU.
  • Selected as a member of the NSF funded REU program at OSU.

Undergraduate Student Vitaliy Rotenberg:

  • Mayers Research Scholarship in the Natural & Mathematical Sciences at OSU in 2011.

Undergraduate Student Kersey Schott:

  • RUMBA (Research for Undergraduates: adventures in Mathematical Biology and its Applications) fellow.

Undergraduate Student Natalia Kravtsova:

  • RUMBA (Research for Undergraduates: adventures in Mathematical Biology and its Applications) fellow.