Congrats to Alison on her SOURCE award and Abdalla on a successful summer and poster presentation!

Alison is moving into her senior year and will be investigating the role of spatial and temporal MT pattern formation. This work is supported by Syracuse University’s SOURCE, which also supported Abdalla’s summer research on cilia formation in the KV.

Jacqueline's Bio-art Piece on HeLa Cells

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!

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.