Nadia’s work has touched every corner of the lab: she’s made contributions to our work on zygote polarity, 8-cell embryo polarity, mESCs, SiMPull and more. Lucky for us, she plans to stay in the lab after graduation as a postdoctoral researcher!

We will soon bid farewell to two of our favorite undergrads, both of whom have done amazing work with co-authorships on multiple publications. They are both off to Ph.D. programs, Lauren at CU Boulder and Bailey at UNC Chapel Hill. Congratulations!!

This reflects the success and important contributions of the whole lab. Thanks to everyone for their great work over the years!

Dan Dickinson was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Elizabeth Hay New Investigator Award. This award “recognizes new investigators who have performed outstanding research in developmental biology during the early stages of their independent career.” See https://www.sdbonline.org/hay_award for more information.

Nicole did incredible work setting up the Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell system in our lab, and training several undergrads who are amazing in their own right. She’s off to a bright future at Eli Lilly.

Recent Ph.D. grad Naomi Stolpner, collaborating with current Ph.D. student Nadia Manzi, has published a new paper showing how 8-cell-stage C. elegans embryos form dynamic apical caps that regulate the orientation of the mitotic spindle. We’re very proud to see this work come to fruition. There are many surprises and outstanding mysteries regarding how these…

Our new paper reports a rapid and efficient method for making fluorescent protein knock-ins in mouse embryonic stem cells. Congratulations to Nicole Shi, Nitya Kopparapu and Lauren Ohler on a very nice piece of work and our lab’s first paper on mESC’s!

The lab has been awarded a 5-year NSF grant to support our work on biochemical mechanisms of PAR polarity in C. elegans and mammalian stem cells. The CAREER award is intended to recognize and support junior faculty who excel in both research and education.

Our paper “Rapid extraction and kinetic analysis of protein complexes from single cells” was selected as one of the 5 best papers in Biophysical Journal in the past year. Dan will be presenting this work (and some updates!) at this year’s Biophysical Society meeting in San Diego.