Congratulations to Skylar Settles, who passed her qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy as a Genetics Ph.D. student! She was really wonderful at thinking on her feet and asking some tough committee questions that were very wide ranging. Skylar is tackling a newer project in the lab and has taken such extraordinary ownership, taking the research in new and exciting directions (and even bringing me papers that I haven’t seen before)! It has been so fun to watch her ideas develop during the Qual process! Woohoo, Skylar!
