Members of the lab set up a station with albino stickleback embryos to view under the microscope and an interactive strawberry DNA extraction. It was a hit with the students and parents alike!
Shivangi Nath successfully defended her dissertation, “Exploring the Dynamics of Pairing and Double Strand Break Repair on the Sex Chromosomes of Threespine Sticklebacks.” We cannot wait to see what is next for you!
Shivangi’s defense was held via Zoom.
Alice Naftaly successfully defended her dissertation, “Exploring recombination landscapes at multiple scales in threespine stickleback fish.” She is moving on to a postdoc position with Dr. Diana Libuda at the University of Oregon. We are so excited to see what you discover next!
To maintain social distancing we had to have a Zoom celebration with pickup party packs!
With party hats!
We are sad to see Shana Pau move on from our lab, but we are excited to see her start graduate school. The University of Texas, Arlington is lucky to have you!
Congratulations to Barquiesha Madison, Will Jones, and Georgette Adae-Mensah for finishing their undergraduate degree in Genetics. We will miss you in the lab!
Congratulations Barquiesha for receiving the 2020 outstanding undergraduate thesis award in the Genetics Department! Barquiesha was able to show female threespine stickleback fish have longer synaptonemal complexes compared to males during meiosis. Great work!
A female threespine stickleback meiocyte at pachytene, labeled for the cohesin protein, SMC3.
Our lab received a five year NSF CAREER award to explore “Meiotic double strand break repair on sex chromosomes.” We are incredibly excited for this opportunity!
Congratulations to Shivangi for receiving a Rosemary Grant Graduate Research Excellence Grant from the Society for the Study of Evolution! Shivangi will use this award to understand how DNA double strand breaks are repaired on sex chromosomes.
Congratulations to Daniel for receiving the prestigious R.C. Lewontin Graduate Research Excellent Grant from the Society for the Study of Evolution! Daniel plans on using this award to study whether meiotic sex chromosome inactivation is occurring in the threespine stickleback fish.
Congratulations to Alice on her first publication! Check out her fine work in Genome Biology and Evolution.