A Top 10 List of RRG Lab Highlights:
1) We were awarded 2 grants this year from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. These grants will fund our work on nervous system regeneration in the coming years.
2) Graduate student Jennifer Jenkins passed her Qualifying Exam.
3) We welcomed several new lab members: graduate student Tulip Chandra and undergraduate students Rachel Grimes, Anusha Jain, Labo Oke, & Raag Patel.
4) Several undergraduate students finished their time in the lab, with many contributing valuable data and two - Jada Summerville and Yamini Chavan - writing undergraduate theses.
5) We enjoyed lots of exciting science events on campus, including Developmental Biology Alliance Fall Symposia and the Regenerative Bioscience Center Connections Series. We also had many wonderful guest speakers.
6) We participated in several excellent outreach activities. One highlight was our student-led STEMzone booth.
7) We tried some exciting new career development activities during group meeting: elevator pitches; storyboarding; mock peer review; & image processing.
8) We worked together to gather data on several exciting projects, with strong efforts toward getting multiple projects close to publication.
9) RRG taught Cell Biology and a First Year Odyssey class and loved getting to know her new classroom students.
10) We had fun and learned lots!