We were happy to have all 3 lab undergrads present at the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Symposium at UGA. Catherine, Pierce, and Natalie have been mentored by Ph.D. students Taylor, Kendall, and Macey. The whole team has done a really fantastic job this year and I told the undergrads that their posters this year were some of our best CURO presentations so far! Kudos!
Eclipse 2024
We weren’t in totality in Athens, but we had a fun time checking the eclipse out with a viewer (made by lab tech Chris) and some eclipse glasses that Kendall got from Jeni’s ice cream (which smelled like waffle cones!).
Congratulations Skylar!
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!
Congratulations Christina!
Congratulations to Christina Endara-Arnold, for passing her qualifying exams and advancing to Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience! Christina did a great job answering questions and presenting her thesis plan to her committee! My favorite part was when she volunteered to describe mass spectrometry without her committee members even asking! My favorite Christina-ism in the exam was “I would love to tell you about that!” Yay for you!
Dr. Tulip Chandra leaving us for Rice University!
We were lucky to have our recent Ph.D. graduate, Tulip Chandra, stay with us for a few weeks to finish up a screen she was conducting before she left for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Uribe Lab at Rice University. We celebrated her during her last week in the lab with a lunch and photo shoot at UGA landmarks like the Arch and the Chapel Bell. We already miss Tulip loads but can’t wait to see what she does next!
