We’re so excited to welcome Christina Endara to the R-G lab for her 2nd rotation. SO glad to have you join us!
Welcome - Skylar and Macey!
We’re welcoming our first two ILS rotation students today, Skylar Settles and Macey Wilson! We’re so eager to work with them on some fun new projects!
Fun at the CBIO Retreat
We had a super fun time at the Cellular Biology departmental retreat, the first one we have had since before the pandemic. We heard lots of great talks, including one by our own Tulip Chandra. Taylor Medlock-Lanier presented a poster on her collaborative work with Kendall Clay. Taylor won BOTH best poster pitch and best poster awards at the retreat, so congratulations to Taylor. We also enjoyed games, conversation with colleagues, and excellent company, particularly after the isolation of the past two years. We look forward to a year of more interactions and engagement on campus and beyond!
Congratulations to Taylor!
Other summer lab news and events!
1) Rachel headed to the McKnight Foundation Symposium for Neuroscience for the first time (after some cancellations or inability to travel because of COVID). It was an inspiring symposium and she even tried out some white water rafting!
2) The lab was awarded its first R01, from NINDS. It will fund our work on neurogenesis and neural maintenance in the context of robust brain regeneration. The lab got Rachel a cake to celebrate (I don’t actually like this kind of cake, they are teasing me!).
3) Due to our busy schedules, we tried a lab symposium as a catch-all for the lab meetings we would normally have had over the summer. We worked on a lab mission statement (still in progress), did an exercise to work on citation practices, and we all presented either research progress reports or journal clubs or practice talks! It was a fun option and we might try it again!
4) I worked on some collaborative experiments with Dr. Kelly Hines (Chemistry). It was fun to try something new and to get to work with my friend!
5) We had a lab cleanup day! Woohoo!
6) We had some fun lab lunches to celebrate our group. Here, we are sending off Alejandra, who is going to take a gap semester and then return to UGA to finish up and graduate. We miss her already!
Congratulations to Jazmine on a successful NSURE summer!
Trainee Jazmine Dent presented her poster on neurotransmitters in regeneration at the NSURE symposium. She did a remarkable job through the summer, especially for someone relatively new to research. Taylor and Kendall mentored Jazmine and also did a lovely job. Jazmine is headed back to Towson University and we all miss her terribly already.
