January 2025 (PhD), May 2027 (MD)
UA Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Excellence in Research Award 2025
UACOM-T Graduate Peer Mentoring Fellowship 2024
University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) CRTEC Travel Award 2022, 2023
UA Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Travel Award 2022
UA NCI T32 Integrated Cancer Scholar Trainee 2022-2024
Arizona ARCS Foundation Scholar 2022-2024
Posters/Presentations:
American Association of Physicians (AAP), American Physician Scientist’s Association (APSA), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Joint Meeting, Poster; Chicago, IL April 2026
Translational Medicine Symposium, Podium Talk; Tucson, AZ March 2024
UACOM-T’s Research Day 2021, Symposium Talk; Tucson, AZ May 2023
American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) / European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Joint Meeting, Symposium Talk & Poster; Boston, MA December 2023
AAP/APSA/ASCI Joint Meeting, Poster; Chicago, IL April 2023
UA Cancer Engineering Initiative Inaugural Symposium, Poster; Tucson, AZ March 2023
ASCB/EMBO Joint Meeting, Micro-Symposium Talk & Poster; Washington, D.C. December 2022 American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR), Poster; New Orleans, LA April 2022
Julia M. Morris, Katharine G. Johnson, Chonlarat Wichaidit, Lauren Riede, Reeba P. Varghese, Dante Bellomo, Mary Yagle, Baris Kerimoglu, Megha Padi, Kelvin W. Pond, Nathan A. Ellis, Curtis A. Thorne. Phenotypic Profiling of Colon Cancer PDOs Reveals Chemoresistant, AKT-Driven Tumor Subpopulation. EMBO Molecular Medicine. Submitted.
Song H, Sontz RA, Vance MJ, Morris JM, Sheriff S, Zhu S, Duan S, Zeng J, Koeppe E, Pandey R, Thorne CA, Stoffel EM, Merchant JL. High-fat diet plus HNF1A variant promotes polyps by activating β-catenin in early onset colorectal cancer. JCI Insight. 2023 May 23:e167163. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.167163. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37219942.
Kelvin W Pond, Julia M Morris, Olga Alkhimenok, Reeba P Varghese, Carly R Cabel, Nathan A Ellis, Jayati Chakrabarti, Yana Zavros, Juanita L Merchant, Curtis A Thorne, Andrew L Paek (2022) Live-cell imaging in human colonic monolayers reveals ERK waves limit the stem cell compartment to maintain epithelial homeostasis eLife 11:e78837
Rivard RS, Morris JM, Youngman MJ. The PP2A/4/6 subfamily of phosphoprotein phosphatases regulates DAF-16 and confers resistance to environmental stress in postreproductive adult C. elegans. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 14;15(12):e0229812. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229812. PMID: 33315870; PMCID: PMC7735605.