Farewell Skye!

Skye has left us to take a Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory - Oxford College. We will miss her!

Congratulations, Skye!

Traveling Insect Petting Zoo!

Gwyn has curated an “Insect Petting Zoo!” It includes live baby mantids, friendly bess beetles, and other species, as well as beautiful pinned specimens from around the world and educational materials. We deployed our zoo at the East Atlanta Kids Club and had a fantastic time! Most of the kids were happy to eat cricket bites and cricket lollipops. We can’t wait to return.

See the people page for pictures of the event!

Tommy passes oral qual!

GMB student Tommy has passed his oral qualifying exam with quali-flying colors! Congrats, Tommy!

Undergraduate researcher Mary achieves highest honors

Mary worked with postdoc Casey Schmidt to define new protein components of the histone locus body. She wrote and defended her thesis to her committee and achieved highest honors! Great job, Mary!

Presentations at the 2021 GSA Drosophila Research Conference

Casey will be giving a talk: “Remote research: A bioinformatics adventure for undergraduates” (3/24 5-6:30pm) Talk #68 during the Education Platform Session

Mellisa will be talking about her research: “Mapping of high-throughput datasets reveal Max and E93 cluster at the histone locus” (3/25 5-6:30pm) during the Undergraduate Platform session

Dabin will be presenting his research: “Pipsqueak localization to the histone locus body” poster 453C

Mellisa will be presenting her research: “Mapping of high-throughput datasets reveal Max and E93 cluster at the histone locus” poster 278B

Casey will be presenting her research: “Investigating interactions that coordinate histone expression” poster 471C

Seeking a few good undergrads for Spring 2021

We realize that it is difficult for undergraduate students to get research experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are offering a remote bioinformatics-based opportunity to a few interested Emory undergraduate students during the spring 2021 semester. For more information, or to express interest, please email lrieder [at] emory.edu

Lauren awarded T32 support

Lauren has been awarded T32 support for her third year as a PhD student. Congratulations, Lauren!

John joins lab for summer!

John is a Morehouse undergraduate student who loves street photography, Marvel movies, and coding. He is working with Skye over the summer and we are excited to have him! Welcome, John!

Tommy joins lab!

Tommy is a rising second year student in the Emory GMB graduate program. Welcome Tommy!