Congrats to Hehnly Lab Seniors!

Congrats to Alison Gerety who received a distinction in Biology, was a Renee Crown Honors student, and won an Outstanding Achievement in Biology award for her thesis on “Characterization of Vimentin in Zebrafish Lateral Line Development”!

Congrats to Abdalla W. Shamil who was awarded both Academic and Research Achievements, and was a Renee Crown Honors student!

We can’t wait to see all that you go on to do!

Abdalla, Heidi, and Alison before the Biology Award Ceremony.

Alison at her poster on her Thesis project.

Congrats to Shahina and Alison!

Congrats to Shahina Alibekova for receiving a SOURCE Award this summer from Syracuse University on the role of vimentin and lateral line formation. This work is taking off from a great foundation set by a previous undergraduate Alison Gerety, who just won an award for outstanding research as a Biology student! Congrats Alison! Alison was also a previous SOURCE Scholar.

Shahina at work at the bench.

Steve Doxsey-always at the Peri-center of things.

Recently, Dr. Hehnly’s postdoc advisor Steve Doxsey passed. You can read his memoriam that was featured in the ASCB Newsletter here: Link to attached file.

Better late than never—huge congrats to Isabella Morales, who was named a Spring 2025 SOURCE Scholar at Syracuse University!

Isa is tackling some fascinating questions in early embryonic development, investigating how Pericentrin contributes to spindle assembly both before and after the mid-blastula transition. Using a pericentrin null zebrafish line, she's uncovered some striking findings that are shedding new light on centrosome function during this critical developmental window.

Catch Isa and her exciting results this Friday at the SOURCE Research Festival. Way to go, Isa—we're so proud of everything you've accomplished!

Isa working away at the bench!