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Rachel’s tenure was approved (effective August 1). So grateful for trainees past and present for all of their hard work to move science forward in the lab and their contributions in building a lab culture of excellence and community!
From UGA Columns!
Our lab Win Board has been BUSY this semester, with lots of accolades and honors for group members. Here is a round up!
Macey wrote and published a Perspective article on allometry in planarians.
Taylor won an Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.
Lab alumna Alejandra was honored with a Presidential Award of Excellence, one of the highest honors for senior undergraduate students.
Lab alumna Jazmine was accepted into the UGA ILS program and will be returning “home” to Athens for her Ph.D. this fall.
Skylar and Christina were selected for the Genetics T32 training grant for the 2024-2025 cycle.
Natalie was awarded a selective CURO Research Fellowship for her work in the lab this summer.
All three undergrads (Pierce, Catherine, and Natalie) have also received CURO Research Awards during the past academic year.
Catherine was selected for a summer internship at Pfizer.
Kendall received an excellent score on her recent F31 application (still pending, fingers crossed!).
Rachel received a Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award from Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA.
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!
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 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!
