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Retreat to the mountains

The Wray and McClay lab annual retreat to the mountains in Independence, VA was another success. We enjoyed research talks, hikes up the mountain, fall foliage, and competitive geoguesser.

Tania and Micah present at CEGS

Tania and Micah both presented posters at the annual NIH Centers of Excellence in Genomic Sciences (CEGS) meeting in New York. 

Wray lab attends DBSUMI meeting

Several members of the Wray and McClay labs attended the 2023 Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Marine Invertebrates in Woods Hole, MA. Greg, Dave, Alejo, Carl, Jane, and Brennan all gave presentations and Zach presented a poster.

 

 

 

Brennan’s presentation – the only undergraduate talk at the conference.

Zach won the award for best undergraduate poster. Jane was awarded second place for best graduate talk.

Ava and Emma join the lab

First year students in the University Program of Genetics and Genomics, Ava and Emma have joined the lab

Ava is broadly interested in the evolution of new gene regulation patterns and the maintenance of variation at the epigenetic level. She is a part of the Heliconius single-cell gene regulation project.

 

 

 

Emma began her work in the lab optimizing HCR in situ protocols in Heliocidaris erythrogramma. She will continue working on the sea urchin project.

Hannah successfully defends her thesis

Newly minted Dr. Hannah Devens successfully defended her thesis  “Genetic Mechanisms Affecting Gene Expression and Chromatin Regulation in the Evolution and Development of Two Sea Urchin Species”

Carl, Alejo, Greg, and Jane return to Australia for the first time after COVID

Hannah, AJ, Valerie and Jane join the lab

  

Welcome Hannah, AJ, Valerie, and Jane!

Phil publishes paper on maternal egg provisioning

Congratulations Phil!

Check it out here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ede.12289

AJ, Val, and Hannah pass their pre-lims (Spring 2019)

Congratulations!

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