Welcome to the lab, Emma Blazure!

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We are delighted to welcome Emma Blazure to the Hehnly Lab as an undergraduate research scholar in the Biology Program at Syracuse University.

Emma will be investigating the role of the centrosome in left–right organizer (LRO) morphogenesis and function, with a focus on how centrosome organization and remodeling contribute to cilia assembly, tissue architecture, and developmental patterning. Her project integrates quantitative imaging and ultrastructural perspectives to address fundamental questions in cell and developmental biology.

We are excited to have Emma join the team and look forward to her contributions to our ongoing efforts to understand how centrosome structure and function shape embryonic development. Welcome, Emma!


Our study on zebrafish embryo centrosomes is online!

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Our new study at Current Biology is online! Lindsay Rathbun and Abrar Aljiboury identified that in the zebrafish embryo mitotic centrosomes scale with cell size and are asymmetric in size! We had a great collaboration with the Bembenek Lab at Univ of Michigan along with his student Bai to also examine that this phenomenon is consistent in C. elegans. We had additional great contributions from undergrads to postbacs Nicole Hall and Julie Manikas. Finally we wouldn’t have been able to do any of it if the Amack Lab at SUNY Upstate didn’t introduce us to zebrafish and how awesome they are!

Check out the sweet video of zebrafish embryonic centrosomes:

Microtubules (EMTB-3xGFP) and centrosomes (Centrin-GFP)

Microtubules (EMTB-3xGFP) and centrosomes (Centrin-GFP)

You can check out the study here: Link to PDF.