June 2026
Congratulations Maddie! Maddie Fuller was one of four trainees selected to receive a predoctoral fellowship from the Program in Translational Medicine (PiTM) at UNC. The PiTM is supported by the NIH (T32GM149370) and trains basic science PhD students to work in multidisciplinary teams composed of scientists, physician-scientists, and clinicians, using state-of-the-art approaches and pat
June 2026
Congratulations Audrey! Audrey was invited to give an oral presentation at the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Intermediate Filaments in Castelldefels, Spain. Audrey also won the Best Selected Talk for her presentation: "Altered IF Proteostasis Correlates With Neuromuscular Deficits in Giant Axonal Neuropathy".
June 2026
Audrey, Maddie and Natasha presented our latest research on AxD and GAN at the 2026 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Intermediate Filaments in Castelldefels, Spain. We thank the UNC Graduate School and the UNC Neuroscience training program for supporting our graduate students' travel to this important conference.
October 2025
The Snider Lab won the annual CBP Pumpkin Decorating Contest!! Thanks to Audrey for leading this effort and to the rest of the lab for the great ideas and pitching in.
September 2025
Audrey and Natasha attended the European Intermediate Filament Meeting in beautiful Lyon, France. Audrey presented some of our current work on GAN.
May 2025
Cassie successfully completed her PhD in Cell Biology and Physiology from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her thesis work advanced our understanding of the molecular and cell biology of gigaxonin, the product of the gene that causes Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN). Cassie was supported by the UNC Translational Medicine Program (T32GM122741) and a pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association.