Mary Ann Collins publishes paper from her PhD work in MBoC

Congratulations Dr. Yeh on defending your PhD and getting a job in industry! We wish her the best of luck.

Congratulations to graduate student, Mimi Xie, on passing her qualifying exam.

Congratulations Soline on the publication of a book chapter Mechanical Force Sensing in Tissues!

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.

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