May 2026: Superstar Shaelin won Best Graduate Student Presentation Award, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, AND a Travel Award to SDB 2027 at the Society for Developmental Biology Southeast Meeting at Kennesaw State University! She’s unstoppable!!

May 2026: Shaelin passed her qualifying exam with flying colors and is now a PhD Candidate! Congratulations!

May 2026: Zuri and Nooreen received their Honors Medals at the Undergraduate Ceremony! Outstanding achievements!

April 2026: Zuri was selected by the Emory Biology Department for the Undergraduate Speaker Award!

April 2026: We’re proud to announce that Zuri will be pursuing her PhD in the Molecular Biology Program at Princeton University!


March 2026: Shaelin gave a great Research-in-Progress Seminar for the Cell Bio Department!

March 2026: Nooreen and Zuri rocked their Honors Thesis defenses. Congrats!

March 2026: Check out Ruochong’s awesome claymation stop motion Science Sketch below that summarizes our recent MBoC paper!


March 2026: Congrats to Shaelin and Zuri for their beautiful review article that was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology!

January 2026: Thrilled to ring in 2026 with the publication of our manuscript in Molecular Biology of the Cell (with Raph’s image featured on the March 1st issue Cover and a Highlight by ASCB)! This was a true Seldin Lab collaboration…congrats to current and former lab members Ruochong, Kush, Raph, Khushi, Mike, Addy, David, and Nooreen!

December 2025: Happy Holidays from the Seldin Lab! We’re excited for a fun and productive 2026!

December 2025: Shaelin received great feedback on her research poster at the annual ASCB Meeting in Philly!

November 2025: We’re thrilled that Kierra has joined the lab!


September 2025: Shaelin received both ASCB and Win Sale Travel Awards to present her research at ASCB 2025 in Philly!


August 2025: Shaelin and Ruochong presented posters at VA Research Day hosted by Morehouse School of Medicine. CONGRATULATIONS TO SHAELIN FOR WINNING BEST POSTER AWARD!!!

June 2025: We are excited to have BCDB/MSTP graduate student Kierra rotating with us this summer!

May 2025: Lindsey presented Raph and Kush with their Highest Honors Medals at the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Honors Ceremony! Many Cell Biology faculty were there to bear witness…

May 2025: Check out our new bioRxiv preprint here! Congrats to co-first authors Kush, Raph, and Ruochong!

April 2025: Jack, Zuri, and Nooreen rocked their Bio499R presentations!

April 2025: End of the year lab celebration — farewell to Raph and Kush and welcome to Shaelin!

April 2025: Congrats to Kush for winning Student Employee of the Year in the category of Critical Thinking!


April 2025: Congrats to Kush who will be pursuing a joint MD/MBA at UMiami!


March 2025: Raph earned HIGHEST HONORS for his incredible Thesis defense! Setting the bar high - CONGRATULATIONS!

March 2025: After WOWING his committee members, Kush was awarded the top designation of HIGHEST HONORS on his remarkable senior Thesis! CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT! He’ll soon be pursuing a dual MD/MBA at UMiami!

March 2025: Congrats to Raph who will be pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry at Caltech!

March 2025: Congrats to Zuri for her acceptance into the Yale Biomed Amgen Scholars Program!


February 2025: We’re SUPER excited that Shaelin has joined the lab!


January 2025: Welcome to GMB rotation student Joseph!

December 2024: Congrats to Kush for being selected as a 100 Senior Honorary!

November 2024: Congrats to Zuri on her Outstanding Presentation Award at ABRCMS 2024!