Mitosis Microsymposium at Naples Central School, Naples NY

Yesterday the Bergstralh and Hehnly lab hosted their 2nd Mitosis Microsymposium, but this time we did it in Naples NY. The Naples Biology Class participated, presented, and asked great questions during the event. I’ve attached some photos below, but special thanks to Jon Betrus for hosting and participating, and providing the most beautiful locale for dinner afterwards. SPECIAL thanks to the students of Biology at NCS for participating. Again, thanks to everyone that helped, particularly my husband Mike Chang, my mom Sharon Hehnly, and Allyn Pridmore.

Here’s several photos of everyone either at the Naples Central School, on a hike at Grime’s glen, or at dinner at Jon Betrus’s cabin.

Celebrating a great summer and Katrina with salt fish!

We were lucky to have Katrina Stevens from Clarkson University join us for a summer research program (SURF Upstate).  She did some exceptional work with her graduate student mentor Erica Colicino on chromosome missegregation in cancer cells. To celebrate we had a delicious dinner with friends/collaborators (the Castaneda lab), where we enjoyed Salt Fish (Salmon steamed in a mound of salt) and libations.  Katrina is at the head of the table in the fourth picture.

Congrats to Lindsay Rathbun and what a fun IZFC!

Lindsay won 3rd place at the International Zebrafish Conference (IZFC) this past week in Madison Wisconsin.  We had a great time visiting friends, learning about zebrafish, and presenting our work.  Lindsay also gave an oral presentation on her and Erica Colicino's studies testing the role of the cytokinetic bridge in lumen formation.  Great Job Lindsay! I can't wait to go next year to the IZFC! Also, my favorite conference companion Bart Hehnly Chang also had a successful flight and Madison trip!

Great Job to Erica Colicino!

Erica presented Lindsay Rathbun and her work on "Cytokinetic bridge triggers de novo lumen formation  In Vivo"  to the CNY Zebrafish meeting on Saturday and did a great job!