Lab News

Welcome Samara!

Congratulations to undergraduate student Sophie for winning an oral presentation award at UO’s Undergraduate Student Symposium.

Congratulations to grad student Stevie Schauer, who won a best poster award at our university’s annual graduate research forum.

Congratulations to Gabriel for being selected for a 1-year career mentorship course.

Zoe Irons defended her thesis (no corrections!) and next she will be an assistant professor at Dickinson college. Congratulations Dr. Irons.

Congratulations to Dr. Luna-Arvizu, who defended a wonderful thesis and is now heading to work in science industry.

Beth organizes and hosts the Skeletal Research Interest Group arm of ZDMS.

Undergrad Calvin Chmelir and his mentor Samuel Bertrand were awarded a fellowship to support their work in the Grimes lab over the summer. Congratulations!

Congratulations Sophie, who defended an excellent honors college thesis today. Pictured here with her mentor, Beth.

Welcome Michelle, a graduate rotation student who is working with Stevie on modeling scoliosis using zebrafish.

Max is a neuroscientist who is rotating in the lab. He is working with Sam on cell polarity and cilia.

Dan, Sam and Stevie drive up to the San Juan’s for the conference where Stevie and Sam both give posters and Dan gives a talk on the labs scoliosis work.

Sam, Beth and John (pictured here with Jeff Farrell) attend the TAGC meeting in Washington where Beth gave a talk and Sam a poster. Good job!

University of Oregon undergraduate student Calvin joins the lab to work with Sam on cilia function in development. Welcome!

Luke is an undergraduate student support by a fellowship from the Knight Campus. He will work with John to understand spine shape.

Beth and others in the lab put together a protocol to describe how to visualize the zebrafish skeleton using micro-computed tomography and freely-available software.

John, Zoe and Beth attended the Zebrafish Disease Models meeting in Durham, NC, and John won a poster award. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Sam for winning the Adamson award and Gabriel for winning the von Hippel award, given to outstanding junior and senior graduate students in our department, respectively.

We say goodbye and good luck to Bryson, a research technician who worked in the lab for two years. We will miss him!

Samara is a rotation student who will work with Gabriel on left-right patterning. Welcome!

We have a lab day out, and try Pickleball for the first time.

High school student Adamend joins the lab. He will work with Beth to quantify images.

Two new graduate students — Sam Bertrand and Stevie Schauer join the lab.

After two years, we’re sad to see Maisey go. She defended an excellent thesis and is pictured here with Katie, her lab mentor.

He had a great time meeting his cohort and presenting his work in Chevy Chase.

in Friday Harbor labs. Everyone presents posters and Beth wins a talk prize - congratulations!

Beth speaks to the OPB show Think Out Loud about scoliosis research

The lab welcomes three new rotation students.

..from the Genetics Society of America. Congratulations Zoe!

The lab went to war with a 6-hour game of Risk