We have lots going on, but I wanted to highlight that Skylar Settles received a T32 Training Grant (Genetics) and Taylor Medlock-Lanier was just accepted to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Advanced Techniques in Molecular Neuroscience Course! Hooray for you both!
Congratulations, Andres!
Andres has been on a roll lately! He received a graduate research fellowship from NSF, a UGA College of Engineering Research Merit Award, and a Presidential Award of Excellence. Here he is smiling at the Presidential Honors Luncheon being honored for his undergraduate successes. In other exciting news, he also just committed to Northwestern University for his Ph.D. He will enter the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Yay for you, Andres!
CURO 2023
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!