Juana De La O passed qualifying exam
Congratulations to graduate student, Juana De La O, on passing her qualifying exam.
Congratulations to graduate student, Juana De La O, on passing her qualifying exam.
Congratulations Mimi Xie for publishing her work “Loss of Gα12/13 Exacerbates Apical Area-dependence of Actomyosin Contractility” in Molecular Biology of the Cell! Mimi showed how apical actin density can depend on apex size. Suppressing this dependence is important to coordinate contractility across a tissue.
Juana De La O comes to us from the University of Chicago and the MIT Biology PhD program.
Babli is doing summer research as part of the prestigious Khorana Scholars Program.
Congratulations Dr. Jackson on defending your PhD and getting a postdoc position in Germany. Best of luck.
Graduate student Clint Ko and Undergraduate Prateek Kalakuntla publish MBoC paper on how mitotic entry can repress ‘active’ contractility and result in relaxation that promotes neighboring tissue folding.
Congratulations Natalie on publishing her work “Actomyosin-based Tissue Folding Requires a Multicellular Myosin Gradient” in Development. Natalie discovered that a tissue-wide gradient in transcription and resulting contractility is necessary to fold a tissue. We had fun collaborating with Pearson Miller and the Dunkel Lab on this project.