Jacqueline's Bio-art Piece on HeLa Cells

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Here we see Jacqueline (graduating senior from our lab, 2024) who made this beautiful ornament dedicated to Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells. As a Honors biology student she defended her senior thesis on ethics in medical research accompanied by this beautiful flower ornament she made into a female reproductive system and HeLa cells that partially represent Henrietta Lacks.

All images that went into this were obtained from either live of fixed HeLa cells imaged on the Zeiss 980 Laser Scanning Confocal in Syracuse University’s Blast BioImaging Center.

A new preprint from the lab!

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Check out our new preprint found on bioRxiv titled: Temporal and anteriorly positioned mitotic zones drive asymmetric microtubule patterns needed for Left-Right Organizer development.

This study was a group effort led by postdoc Yan Wu and graduate students Yiling Lan and Favour Ononiwu. We were able to look at #microtubule dynamics in the #zebrafish Left Right Organizer for the first time allowing us to find lots of cool stuff about its development!

You can check it out here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.12.593765v1

A teaser of how cool the MT dynamics are during zebrafish KV development.

Congrats to our 2024 Graduates!

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Jonah Da Silva (Biology and Renee Crown Honors Student): during his time here was awarded a SOURCE Research award and at Graduation was awarded A&S Jonathan Chayat Award, and Biology’s Research Achievement Award! Congrats Jonah and good luck at University of Michigan!

Jacqueline Dasoh Rim (Biology and Renee Crown Honors Student): during her time here was awarded a SOURCE Research award and at Graduation was awarded A&S Deborah Coquillon Memorial Award along with Biology’s Research Achievement Award! Congrats Jacqueline! Jacqueline was also our first honors student doing a BioArt Project!

Elijah Springer (Biotechnology): during his tenure in the lab Elijah was a McNair, LSAMP, and SOURCE scholar. At graduation Elijah was awarded Biology’s Research Achievement Award! Congrats Elijah and good luck in Graduate School!

Matthew Whaley (Biochemistry): during his tenure in the lab Matthew was a paid research technician helping us with everything zebrafish. He will be missed, but we are excited for his first rotation in the Welch lab in Syracuse University’s Biology Department PhD program! Matthew was awarded Biology’s Research Achievement Award.

Congrats everyone! We can’t wait to see all that you do!

Elijah Springer (Class of 2024)

Matthew Whaley (Class of 2024)

Jonah Da Silva (Class of 2024)

Jacqueline Rim (Class of 2024)