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!
Good luck, Pamela!
Today we bid farewell to Pamela, who will return to Emory in fall 2024 to start her PhD in the Emory Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMP) program! Good luck, Pamela!
Bon voyage, Hannah!
Hannah has moved on to the Emory/GA Tech BME PhD program! But not before submitting her manuscript: Gilbonio, HE, GL Puckett, E Nguyen, and LE Rieder. A hybrid RNA FISH immunofluorescence protocol on Drosophila polytene chromosomes. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.12.544616v1
Congratulations, Hannah!
Hiring: laboratory manager!
We are excited to hire a laboratory manager! Your primary responsibilities will include reserach support, but there are also opportunities for side research projects. Salary depends upon experience, but is hourly (with overtime options) and begins around $36k/year.
https://staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/110656/job
Note: if you have additional experience or degrees, please still apply— I will be able to hire you into a salaried, more advanced position with higher pay!
Tommy awarded F31 from NICHD
We are thrilled that Tommy was recently awarded an F31 from NICHD! Congratulations, Tommy!
Nicole and Sisi join the lab!
We are thrilled to recruit both Sisi and Nicole to join us for their PhD research!
Sisi rotates in lab!
We are excited to welcome first year GMB graduate student Sisi into the lab for the third rotation. Welcome, Sisi!