December 9, 2022

The lab celebrated our annual Holiday tradition of Fishmas! We feasted and exchanged gifts. We were thrilled to be joined by several notable Lab Alums, Flora, Rachel and Ben!

November 1, 2022

We had a great time attending a dinner and ceremony for awardees of biomedical research awards from the Smith Family Foundation. Eric presented a great poster of the work in our lab supported by a Smith Odyssey Award.  Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation for the fun evening and for their continued support!

October 31, 2022

Happy Haloween from thyroid hormone, melanophore, GFP, LacZ, lunatic fringe, sonic hedgehog, tdTom, Ptch2, gli2 & Bob Ross

September 10, 2022

We had so much fun at our annual off-site Lab Retreat! We had a day of planning, presentations, celebration and games (there may have been some Nerf guns!)

Thanks to John and Stacy for planning an amazing day, and congratulations to Melody and Bella for winning Lab Jeopardy! 

September 6, 2022

We are ecstatic to receive a MIRA R35 award from the National Institutes of Health! This major NIH grant supports our lab's discovery-based research for the next 5 years! We are so honored to receive this award and beyond excited to execute this project.

August 23, 2022

Our lab attended the 2-day Biology Department retreat in Portsmouth New Hampshire. Thanks to organizer Stacy Nguyen and all the organizers!

Big congratulations to grad student Eric Surette, who won the Reverend Donald J. Polke SJ award for best talk of the retreat!!!

August, 2022

Yes, she left the lab already twice, but lucky for us she keeps coming back first as a tech then as a post-bac scholar. Now she's leaving for a third time, and we're wondering if this is just a scam to get more cake?

Joan starts a PhD program at University of Pennsylvania in the Fall! We miss you already, Joan and know you're off to more great things!

July 20, 2022

Sarah, Brian, Melody and Joan traveled to Vancouver (situated in the "other" BC!) for an amazing meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Congratulations to Melody on her first poster at an international meeting!

June 3, 2022

Stacy's paper is published in Frontiers in Physiology! Check it out to learn about how the skeleton changes across late stages of juvenile and adult development. 

Stacy's Dataset is also available on FaceBase.org!

May 9, 2022

Congratulations to Eric Surette for successfully defending his comprehensive proposal and advancing to his PhD candidacy!

May 6, 2022

Congratulations to Bella Ranieri, Emma Mohlmann, Flora Dievenich Braes, Rachel Lee and Brendan Fitzgerald for presenting posters of their independent research projects at the BC Undergraduate Research Day!

April 3, 2022

The lab was thrilled to attend the first in-person Northeast Regional Society for Developmental Biology meeting since 2019! We had an incredible time learning about the great science going on in the region, and we presented two talks, including a fabulous talk by Melody Harper, and seven (!!) posters including five by our awesome undergraduates.

April 3, 2022

Congratulations to undergrad researchers Emma Molhmann (left) and Bella Ranieri (right) for winning Best Poster awards at NESDB 2022!! We're so proud of their accomplishments and all of the great work we presented at the meeting!

February 23, 2022

We wished a very sad farewell to Yinan, our postdoc of many years. A beloved fixture in the lab, Yinan will be greatly missed. We are excited for his new job as a Bioinformatics Scientist at Veracyte, Inc! 

(Enjoy this video of Yinan attempting COVID-safe candle extinguishing!) 

February 2, 2022

Congratulations to Emma Molhmann for accepting a job as a Research Associate with the Breault Lab at Boston Children's Hospital and Flora Dievenich Braes for accepting a job as a Research Associate with the Orkin Lab at Dana Farber/Boston Children's Hospital! 

Glad to see our undergrads moving forward in their research careers! 

January 10, 2022

Joan has returned to the lab  as a research associate following an internship with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology! Joan is funded through an NSF supplement to support Research Experiences for Post-Baccalaureate Students (REPS). We're delighted to have her back, and looking forward to her research contributions!

(Pictured here holding her goodbye cake that proved only temporarily true!)

January 10, 2022

Congrats to senior undergraduate Rachel Lee for accepting a position as a Associate Business Consultant with Veeva Systems!