Big Weekend at Syracuse University

by Heidi Hehnly


The Hehnly Lab is excited to celebrate with our Graduates Thomas Cammerino (winner of Biology’s Outstanding Biotechnology Award) and Christopher Taveras (winner of Biology’s Outstanding Biology Award). We also celebrated Abrar and Nikhila’s PhD hooding, and Nikhila was awarded Biology’s Alexander Gourevitch Memorial Award in Biology. Congrats everyone and we are all excited to see how you change the world.

Left to right: Nikhila, Heidi, Chris, and Thomas

Waiting to get hooded, Left to Right: Abbi, Heidi, and Nikhila


New England Society Developmental Biology Meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, April 28-30, 2023

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Favour Ononiwu (graduate student) and Yan Wu (Postdoc) both presented orally and posters at the NESDB meeting in Woods Hole, Favour gave a 15 min talk on Friday and Yan Wu gave a flash talk on Saturday. Graduate student, Kirsten Rasmussen (co-author on Yan’s poster), attended.

Yan presenting her flash talk.

Favour presenting her Friday talk.