Visiting University of Rochester Medical College!

I had a great time visiting the University of Rochester Mecial College’s Department of Physiology last week. It was especially great to hang out with John Lueck and his laboratory and hear about all the great science going on in the department! Thanks for letting me visit!

John Lueck and I enjoying a delicious beverage.

ASCB Washington DC 2019

Lindsay Rathbun (graduate student), Jessica O’Connell (graduate student), Nikhila Krishnan (graduate student), and Julie Manikas (postbac) all did a great job mixing with scientists and presenting their work at ASCB! Julie Manikas gave a talk to a packed room on cilia formation in the developing zebrafish embryo and the rest of the lab gave poster presentations on centrosome signaling, membrane trafficking, forces required to create a tissue, and cell division during embryogenesis. I even had a guest presenter to present my poster on PLK1 activity at the centrosome, Hehnly Lab Alumni Erica Colicino!

Erica Colicino (Hehnly Lab Alum) presenting on cenexin and PLK1

Julie Manikas presenting on Cilia formation in the developing embryo

Jessica O’Connel presenting on the role of the cytokinesis bridge in Rosette formation.

Lindsay Rathbun presenting her work on the role of the Cytokinetic bridge in lumen formation.

Nikhila presenting on the role of endosomes and the centrosome during cell division.

We also enjoyed a great dinner with collaborators and old friends! It was awesome to hang out with Julia Riley from the Castaneda lab, Hui-Fang Hung and Ana Vertii, old friends from the Doxsey Lab, and Colleen McDowell (Wisconsin).

Julia Riley, Erica Colicino, Heidi Hehnly, and Julie Manikas

Heidi and Hui-Fang Hung

Lab Dinner

Ana and Heidi

Heidi and Colleen

Fun in DC

Bart and Mike at the Botanical Gardens

Developmental Biology New York at Ithaca College

Abrar, Lindsay, Julie, and Nikhila did a great job giving oral talks in the morning on the role of cell division, the centrosome, endosomes, and cilia in tissue morphogenesis! Following the talks were posters from Michael, Jess, Michelle, and Nicole. Great job Hehnly Lab!