Lab News

Juana De La O passed qualifying exam

Juana De La O passed qualifying exam

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

Marlis successfully defended her PhD thesis

Marlis successfully defended her PhD thesis

Congratulations to Marlis Denk-Lobnig on a wonderful thesis talk! Marlis is moving on to do a postdoc at the University of Michigan.

Jonathan Jackson passed qualifying exam

Jonathan Jackson passed qualifying exam

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

Nat Clarke published review on Current Biology

Nat Clarke published review on Current Biology

Congratulations postdoc Nat Clarke on his review paper on the cytoskeleton, adhesion, and morphogenesis being published in Current Biology.

Marlis Denk-Lobnig’s publishes paper in Development

Marlis Denk-Lobnig’s publishes paper in Development

Congratulations grad student, Marlis Denk-Lobnig, on her paper titled Combinatorial patterns of graded RhoA activation and uniform F-actin depletion promote tissue curvature being published by Development.

Jasmin Imran Alsous and Jonathan Jackson published their paper in PNAS

Jasmin Imran Alsous and Jonathan Jackson published their paper in PNAS

Congratulations postdoc Jasmin Imran Alsous and grad student Jonathan Jackson on publishing their paper titlec Dynamics of hydraulic and contractile wave-mediated fluid transport during Drosophila oogenesis in PNAS.

Juana De La O joins the lab

Juana De La O joins the lab

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

Clint and Prateek publish paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell

Clint and Prateek publish paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell

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.

Mary Ann Collins and Jonathan Jackson join the lab

Mary Ann Collins and Jonathan Jackson join the lab

Jonathan comes to us from the Harvard Biophysics PhD program and Mary Ann did her PhD on nuclear movement in muscle.

Jaci Camuglia and Anna Yeh passed Ph.D. candidacy exams

Jaci Camuglia and Anna Yeh passed Ph.D. candidacy exams

Congratulations to Jaci Camuglia and Anna Yeh on passing their Ph.D. candidacy exams! Excited to see what research directions we go in over the next few years.

Hannah publishes Developmental Cell paper

Hannah publishes Developmental Cell paper

Postdoctoral fellow, Hannah Yevick, published her research titled Structural redundancy in supracellular actomyosin networks enables robust tissue folding in Developmental Cell. You can hear her talk about what she discovered in the video produced by Raleigh McElvery of the MIT Biology department. Read an MIT News article on the research.

Clint publishes paper on Journal of Cell Biology

Clint publishes paper on Journal of Cell Biology

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.

Jaclyn Camuglia gets PhD and starts new job

Jaclyn Camuglia gets PhD and starts new job

Congratulations Jaci on a stellar PhD thesis and tour de force paper. We wish her the best of luck on her next position in industry!

Jaclyn Camuglia submits paper

Jaclyn Camuglia submits paper

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.

Mary Ann Collins publishes paper from her PhD work in MBoC

Mary Ann Collins publishes paper from her PhD work in MBoC

Postdoc Mary Ann Collins publishes paper from her PhD work in Molecular Biology of the Cell. One of her microscopy images was selected for the cover!

Anna Yeh and Jaclyn Camuglia publish book chapter

Anna Yeh and Jaclyn Camuglia publish book chapter

Graduate students Anna Yeh and Jaclyn Camuglia publish book chapter on morphogenesis titled Extracellular Tension and Tissue Morphogenesis.

Juana De La O passed qualifying exam

Juana De La O passed qualifying exam

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

Marlis successfully defended her PhD thesis

Marlis successfully defended her PhD thesis

Congratulations to Marlis Denk-Lobnig on a wonderful thesis talk! Marlis is moving on to do a postdoc at the University of Michigan.

Jonathan Jackson passed qualifying exam

Jonathan Jackson passed qualifying exam

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

Nat Clarke published review on Current Biology

Nat Clarke published review on Current Biology

Congratulations postdoc Nat Clarke on his review paper on the cytoskeleton, adhesion, and morphogenesis being published in Current Biology.