Mimi Xie Passed Qualifying Exam

Graduate student, Jaclyn Camuglia, submitted her research “Morphogenetic forces planar polarize LGN/Pins in the embryonic head during Drosophila gastrulation” and posted a preprint. We found that morphogenetic forces are required to orient cell divisions in the Drosophila embryo through a mechanism that establishes polarity of the Pins protein.

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

Congratulations to graduate student, Juana De La O, on passing her qualifying exam.

Biology graduate student, Natalie Heer, joins the lab. Natalie received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University where she worked in the Reck-Peterson lab on dynein motility.

Congratulations to graduate student, Marlis Denk-Lobnig, who was featured in the MIT Biology department news. Read the article.

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