I usually don’t miss our Undergraduate Research symposium (CURO) but had to miss it this year. Andres presented his work on neural control of stem cell behaviors and James presented his work on satiety in planarians. Grad students did a great job of supporting our trainees in my absence (thanks, y’all!). They reported back that Andres and James did a fantastic job!
Congratulations - Dr. Jennifer Jenkins!
Congratulations to lab member Jennifer on successful completion of her Ph.D. defense! She did a wonderful job, crafting a wonderful thesis and presenting her work in a beautiful seminar. She also worked hard to complete her projects and graduate on time, despite the challenges and delays of conducting graduate research through the pandemic. Also, she was the first student that joined the lab and she has been instrumental in both scientific and community lab missions!
Heterotrimeric G protein paper up!
Jennifer’s thesis work on heterotrimeric G proteins in planarians has just gone up at Genetics. You can check out her work HERE. It’s a wonderful paper full of lots of great observations and tempting new questions!
Preprints from the R-G lab!
Congratulations to Tulip, Taylor, and Kendall. Tulip’s preprint on glial biology in planarians was preprinted at bioRxiv and is currently under review. Taylor and Kendall also coauthored a paper with me on transcriptional regulators of regeneration; our preprint is also up at bioRxiv and under review. We’re excited about the new science we’re sharing with the world and welcome any feedback you may have!
Liver Party!
Rachel traveled to Bluffton, GA to White Oak Pastures to pick up a healthy beef liver for us to process into puree and chunks for our planarians to eat. Lab members worked together to process and aliquot the liver. I appreciate all of the hard work that they put into liver prep (and trying to have fun while they work!).
