We were so excited to celebrate the defense of our wonderful student, Kendall Clay! She did a fantastic job writing her thesis and presenting her work at her oral defense. We are so proud of the research she has completed and - as I said at her defense - she is something like an octuple threat - she is a great teacher, fantastic at writing, passionate about outreach and service, talented at making science-related art, and more! It has been so fun to be part of her journey. Congrats, Dr. Clay!
Lab outreach at Memorial Park Day Camp!
We had a super fun time holding an outreach day at Memorial Park Day Camp, which is put on by Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services. This was our biggest outreach event ever, with 6 stations and a team of 8 volunteers from the lab to work with about 60 kids for 2 hours. We had stations on regeneration, species identification of several planarian species, animal behavior, using microscopes, neurons, and talking about what a worm is anyway! You can check out our outreach tab on the website if you are interested in some of our materials. We had a lot of fun and were excited for this new mode for our outreach effort!
Congratulations Camila!
Camila passed her qualifying exam last Friday and advanced to candidacy! She did a great job thinking on her feet and answering hard questions. We appreciated feedback on her project and progress from her excellent thesis committee! We celebrated with decorations of her desk and bench and then burgers this week! Congratulations Camila!!!
Burger lunch!
Proud colleagues (and decorators)!
SESDB & congrats to Ella!
We had a great visit to SESDB hosted by Kennesaw State University We had a great UGA presence and lab undergrads Kathleen and Ella presented poster. Ella was excited to be recognized for 1st place undergrad poster! There was lots of excellent science, great company, and fun community. Thanks to the attendees and organizers!
CURO Symposium
Our undergrad team presented their work at the CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities) Symposium at UGA. Kathleen and Ella presented their work in talks. Zoe, Anisha, and Emily (all in their first or second semester in the lab) presented their work in posters. They all did a great job!
Kathleen talking about her work on the stem cell niche.
Ella getting ready to talk about her efforts to identify synapse proteins in planarians.
Undergrad team S26! From L to R, Ella, Emily, Zoe, Anisha, and Kathleen. The middle three scholars presented posters on their research.