Marlis successfully defended her PhD thesis

Yujie joins us from the University of Chicago where she completed her Ph.D. with David Kovar. For her graduate work, Yujie worked on developing in vitro assays for imaging molecular interactions with actin filaments.

Congratulations to graduate student, Jonathan Jackson, on passing his qualifying exam.

Anthony is the newest postdoc in the lab. Anthony comes to us from the MIT Mechanical Engineering PHD program.

Congratulations to graduate student, Jonathan Coravos, on passing his qualifying exam.

Congratulations to graduate student, Clint Ko, on publishing his research titled Microtubules promote intercellular contractile force transmission during tissue folding in the Journal of Cell Biology. Clint discovered that microtubules maintain intercellular adhesion by regulating actin.

Juana De La O comes to us from the University of Chicago and the MIT Biology PhD program.