by Heidi Hehnly in Papers
The paper is finally up at PLoS Genetics, congrats to everyone involved! You can check out the study titled “Rab8, Rab11, and Rab35 coordinate lumen and cilia formation during zebrafish left-right organizer development” here.
Figure 1 from the study that argues Left-Right Organizer cells start making cilia before they start assembling a lumen! This observations was first found by undergraduate Julie Manikas, who is an author on the study. Check it out!
by Heidi Hehnly
The Hehnly Lab is excited to celebrate with our Graduates Thomas Cammerino (winner of Biology’s Outstanding Biotechnology Award) and Christopher Taveras (winner of Biology’s Outstanding Biology Award). We also celebrated Abrar and Nikhila’s PhD hooding, and Nikhila was awarded Biology’s Alexander Gourevitch Memorial Award in Biology. Congrats everyone and we are all excited to see how you change the world.
Left to right: Nikhila, Heidi, Chris, and Thomas
Waiting to get hooded, Left to Right: Abbi, Heidi, and Nikhila
Favour Ononiwu (graduate student) and Yan Wu (Postdoc) both presented orally and posters at the NESDB meeting in Woods Hole, Favour gave a 15 min talk on Friday and Yan Wu gave a flash talk on Saturday. Graduate student, Kirsten Rasmussen (co-author on Yan’s poster), attended.
Yan presenting her flash talk.
Favour presenting her Friday talk.
We had a great time at the New York Area Zebrafish meeting. Jonah, Yan, Kirsten, and Favour all presented excellent posters.
Left to Right: Heidi, Jonah, Lan, Favour, Kirsten, and Yan