Lab News Archive 2021
Lab-o-ween 2021
October 29, 2021
We celebrated Lab-O-ween with treats and costumes and 'reverse rick-or-treating' around the department. Now, back to work or Reviewer 2 will get you!
Farewell to Ali
October 26, 2021
We wished a bittersweet farewell to Dr. Shahid Ali, who is starting a research position in Niel Shubin's lab at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Ali!
Lab granted a Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award!
October 15, 2021
We are very excited to be awarded a two-year Odyssey Award from the Smith Family Foundation! From the Foundation's website, "The Award supports the pursuit of high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research. The awards will fund high-risk, high-reward pilot projects solicited from our brightest junior faculty in the region." We are grateful for the support and the vote of confidence and we are very eager to pursue this project!
Dinner after Anna's talk
Aug 12, 2021
Anna Redgrave is now a PhD student at the University of Michigan, and she came back to BC to present some of her work in a Science on Tap Seminar! The whole lab went out for dinner afterwards and we even got to see Ben and Joan, other lab graduates!!
Lab Party and goodbye to Joan
May 22, 2021
Big congratulations to graduating seniors Hyungwoo Lee and Flora Hepp!!
We also wished a farewell to the lab's technician Joan Donahue! Joan is off to accomplish great things at a several months-long research internship at OIST in Okinawa, Japan! We miss hear already.
Welcome, Eric!
May 17, 2021
The Lab welcomes our newest PhD student, Eric Surette! We also have two new undergraduates who will be joining us over the summer, Isabella Ranieri and Brendan Fitzgerald. Welcome, everyone! We're delighted to have you on board!
NESDB 2021
April 20, 2021
The lab was very pleased to attend the Virtual Northeast Regional Society for Developmental Biology meeting. We presented four posters and a fantastic talk by postdoc Shahid Ali.
Posters by grad student Melody Harper and undergrad Emma Mohlman were awarded prizes in their respective categories! Congratulations to Melody and Emma!!