3 Hehnly Lab Undergraduate students are going to Graduate school!

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3 of Hehnly Lab Undergraduates from SU Biology are going to Graduate School next year! Watch out science world. Congrats to Jonah Da Silva (Biology major, Renee Crown Honors student, SOURCE Scholar), Matthew Whaley (Biochemistry major), and Elijah Springer (McNair and SOURCE Scholar, Biotechnology major).

Matthew Whaley

Elijah Springer

Heidi (left) and Jonah Da Silva (right)


Check out the cool article on the Microscopy happening here at Syracuse University

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You can check out the article here featuring me and Jonah, and Mirna Skanata’s and Jenny Ross’s groups. The article is titled “Peek into the hidden world inside of cells”.

Left to Right: Mirna Skanata, Heidi Hehnly, Jenny Ross. Image on screen from Ali Patteson’s lab.

Physics major Hong Beom Lee ’23 operates a Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope. Biology major Jonah Da Silva ’24 is in the background.


Poster Day!

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Congrats to Hehnly Lab undergraduates Jonah, Thomas, and Chris on a great year of research at Syracuse University! I’m so excited to see all that our Seniors Thomas and Chris do after graduation, and Jonah in his senior year!

Thomas Cammerino (Graduating Senior) at his poster.

Christopher Taveras (Graduating Senior) at his poster.

Jonah Da Silva (Class of 2024) at his poster.