Welcome to new lab members!

Our lab has grown by a few folks this semester, even as we have seen a few undergraduate students complete theses and move on to new adventures (we miss them already!).

Ph.D. students Camila and Jazmine are joining us from the ILS program at UGA. Camila has joined the Department of Cellular Biology and Jazmine has joined the Neuroscience Program. We are currently working on project ideas and excited to send them off into their thesis projects!

PREP (post-bacc) student Saraí is joining us for the semester as well, which she will balance with interviews for her Ph.D. programs. She will work with technician Chris on signals important for regeneration.

And Raul is joining our excellent undergraduate team. He will be mentored by Kendall and will focus on identifying proteins important for synapse formation in planarians.

Welcome all! :)

Christina - HHMI Gilliam Submission (fingers crossed)

Drinking sipping chocolate at Condor. Yum!

Christina has been hard at work on an application for the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship. She is the first lab member to apply and a great candidate (I know I’m a bit biased). Fingers crossed for her application, but I am also grateful to have spent time working on this application, which asked both of us to reflect and spend time thinking about goals in a holistic way and to contemplate how we can be agents of change at UGA and in the broader scientific community. Cheers to our ideas and plans, which I know we will pursue regardless of the outcome!

NSF CAREER Awardees Symposium

It was a great 2 days of science, encouragement, information, and NSF networking at the NSF CAREER Awardees Symposium, which was hosted by Posey Busby and NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences leadership in Alexandria. I came away with lots of ideas. Big grant writing goals ahead in 2025!

Being a CAREER Awardee has been a huge benefit to me and to the lab and this excellent opportunity was icing on the cake!