Bon chance to Mackenzie and Rebecca, who are rotating to new labs. Welcome to Isabella, GMB PhD student who joins us for rotation 2!
Welcome Katy!
We are excited to welcome Katy Koreski who joins us after a postdoc at St. Jude’s!
Bon chance, Annalise and Connor!
We bid farewell to our labbies, undergraduate researcher Annalise, who graduated from Emory, and postbac technician Connor, who joins the Emory GMB PhD program. We will miss you!
Welcome to Rebecca and Mackenzie!
Rebecca and Mackenzie are part of the Genetics and Molecular Biology PhD program— they are rotating with us to get a feel for our reserach and lab culture. Welcome!
Welcome, Shilpi!
The lab is excited to welcome Shilpi Verghese! Shilpi is a fly AND cat lover and recently moved back to Atlanta. We can’t wait to work with you, Shilpi!
Bon voyage, Casey and Amirah!
We bid farewell to postdoc Casey Schmidt, who is starting her own lab at Lafayette University, and lab manager Amirah Hurst. We will miss you!
Sisi and Nicole are PhD candidates!
Congrats to Sisi and Nicole who both passed their PhD qualifying exams. On to the reserach!!!
Lauren and Annalise gradaute
Lauren celebrated her PhD hood on Friday 5/10, while Annalise received her BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology on Monday 5/13. Congrats!
Congratulations to Eric!
Eric won the Emory Biology Department Pat Marstellar Award in honor of his impressive undergraduate research. Congratulations, Eric!
Congrats to Connor and Hannah! NSF GRFP
Congrats to Connor, who will attend the Emory GMB PhD program in the fall, and lab alum Hannah who is currently a first year PhD student in the Emory/GATech Biomedical Engineering program in Dr. David Myer’s lab! Both were awarded NSF GRFPs!
Dr. Lauren Hodkinson, PhD!
Congratulations to Lauren who successfully defended her PhD thesis on March 22. What a day it was!
Congrats to Lauren on her Genetics paper!
Lauren’s paper was accepted at Genetics! Next stop: PhD!
The gang visits DC for TAGC 2024
and Lauren won an honorable mention for her poster!
Casey gets job... congratulations!
IRACDA postdoctoral fellow Casey will join the faculty at Lafayette College in summer 2024. Congratulations, Casey!
Congratulations to Tommy and Connor!
Tommy posted a preprint on bioRxiv:
Zelda is dispensable for Drosophila melanogaster histone gene regulation
Tommy is also a co-first author on a paper that Connor submitted to MicroPublication.
Congrats to both of them!
Congratulations to Lauren and co-authors
Lauren put the bulk of her PhD reserach on bioRxiv!
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.07.570650
Congratulations Casey, Lauren, and alumni: paper published!
Congratulations to Casey and Lauren and alumni Skye and Henrik, and undergradaute Samia for publication of “A cost-free CURE: using bioinformatics to identify DNA-binding factors at a specific genomic locus” at JMBE!
Congratulations to Lauren, Connor, Casey, and Eric: Paper published!
Lauren and Connor share first authorship, and Casey is co-corresponding author on:
A bioinformatics screen reveals hox and chromatin remodeling factors at the Drosophila histone locus
Congratulations to Hannah: paper published!
Congratulations to Hannah (and alum Gwyn), whose paper was recently published!
A hybrid RNA FISH immunofluorescence protocol on Drosophila polytene chromosomes
Welcome, Amirah!
We are so excited to welcome Amirah Hurst as our new lab manager! Amirah earned her M.S. from Georgia State University in 2021 and her B.S. in Neuroscience in 2016. Welcome, Amirah!