End-of-year presentation fun

The R-G lab recently participated in the Regenerative Bioscience Center Annual Symposium and the Developmental Biology Alliance Spring Retreat. Our lab members did a fantastic job representing us, through their leadership, organization, and communication abilities! We also love sharing our work on campus because of the thoughtful insights and ideas that our colleagues are always willing and eager to provide. Thank you, UGA Research community, for being so awesome!

Taylor won 1st prize for poster presentation at the RBC Symposium!

Macey (left) won 3rd place poster and Christina (right) won 2nd place talk at the Dev. Biol. Spring Symposium. All talks and presentations were excellent!

Catherine got to present her poster for the first time beyond the undergrad research symposium.

Lots of accolades for lab members!

Our lab Win Board has been BUSY this semester, with lots of accolades and honors for group members. Here is a round up!

  • Macey wrote and published a Perspective article on allometry in planarians.

  • Taylor won an Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.

  • Lab alumna Alejandra was honored with a Presidential Award of Excellence, one of the highest honors for senior undergraduate students.

  • Lab alumna Jazmine was accepted into the UGA ILS program and will be returning “home” to Athens for her Ph.D. this fall.

  • Skylar and Christina were selected for the Genetics T32 training grant for the 2024-2025 cycle.

  • Natalie was awarded a selective CURO Research Fellowship for her work in the lab this summer.

  • All three undergrads (Pierce, Catherine, and Natalie) have also received CURO Research Awards during the past academic year.

  • Catherine was selected for a summer internship at Pfizer.

  • Kendall received an excellent score on her recent F31 application (still pending, fingers crossed!).

  • Rachel received a Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award from Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA.

CURO symposium 2024

We were happy to have all 3 lab undergrads present at the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Symposium at UGA. Catherine, Pierce, and Natalie have been mentored by Ph.D. students Taylor, Kendall, and Macey. The whole team has done a really fantastic job this year and I told the undergrads that their posters this year were some of our best CURO presentations so far! Kudos!