Summer 2022
- 2022 CSHL course: Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior. Ellie- Lecturer/Lab Coordinator; Jake and Deeptha- TAs
- 2022 UCSB KITP QBio summer research course: Neurophysics of Motion. Ellie- Instructor; Marie- TA
- Zarion re-appointed to Dev Bio training grant
- Yiqin graduates UChicago with research Honors Thesis from Heckscher Lab
- Bianca gets a NESSTP summer fellowship
- Wang et al., “Sequential addition of neuronal stem cell temporal cohorts generates a feed-forward circuit in the Drosophila larval nerve cord” published in eLife
Spring 2022
- Julia Meng wins the CMB program best PhD thesis award
- Jake is awarded an NRSA graduate fellowship
- Sam Swank, DRSB graduate student rotation
- Brandon Chew, CMB graduate student rotation
- Yiqin Gao graduates UChicago with senior honors thesis from Heckscher lab
Winter 2022
- Annika Sharma, CON graduate student rotation
- Casey Dubose, CMB graduate student rotation
- Zarion Marshall publishes ‘The role of even-skipped in the Drosophila larval somatosensory circuit assembly’ in eNeuro
Fall 2021
- Julia Meng gets honorable mention for the Elkins Award (best thesis) at Neurobiology of Drosophila, CSHL meeting
Summer 2021
- Juan Zuniga graduates from UChicago with thesis from Heckscher Lab
- Zarion Marshall is put on the Developmental Biology training grant
- Bianca Campari, DNUFO summer undergraduate researcher
- Yiqin Gao, undergraduate summer researcher
Spring 2021
- Marie Greaney and Maxime Lehman win the best presentation prize at the 2021 CNRS-Chicago symposium.
- Julia Meng is accepted for a post-doc in the David Lyons lab at University of Edinburgh
- Yiqin Gao is accepted into the Neuroscience Honors Program
- Juan Zuniga graduates from UChicago with senior thesis for Neuroscience done in Heckscher lab
- Zarion Marshall joins the lab (CON graduate program)
- Conor Lee-Smith, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
- Talia Friedman, undergraduate joins the lab
Winter 2021
- Marie Greaney gets an NRSA F31 Fellowship
- Julia Meng publishes her review article: Development of Motor Circuits. Meng JL, Heckscher ES (2021). Current Topics in Developmental Biology. Special issue on Neural Development, Greg Bashaw editor. Elsevier. 142:409-442
- Rio Salazar, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
- Anali Migueles, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
Fall 2020
- Deeptha Vasudevan, post-doctoral researcher, joins the lab
- Zarion Marshall, CON Graduate Student Rotation
Summer 2020
- Jake Henderson selected for the Developmental Biology Training Grant for a second year
- Hannah Carr graduated from UChicago having done a thesis in Heckscher Lab
- Yiqin Gao awarded BSCD Summer Research Fellow
- Juan Zuniga awarded a Metcalf Summer Fellow
- Yi-wen Wang, PhD leaves the lab for a new job in Taiwan
- Zarion Marshall leaves the lab to become a UChicago Committee on Neuroscience graduate student in the fall.
Spring 2020
- Meng et al., “Temporal transcription factors determine circuit membership by permanently altering motor neuron-to-muscle synaptic partnerships” is published in eLife
- Hannah Carr graduates from UChicago and is accepted at UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
- Sean Corcoran, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation (socially-distanced)
- Juan Zuniga, UChicago undergraduate, joins lab
- Yaa Asante, UChicago undergraduate, joins lab
Fall 2019
- Julia Meng et al., “How prolonged expression of Hunchback, a temporal transcription factor, re-wires locomotor circuits” published in eLife
Summer 2019
- Jake Henderson (DRSB graduate student) joins to the lab
- Jake Henderson selected for the Developmental Biology Training Grant
- Elise Paniel graduates with MS from University Paris, Diderot
- 2019 CSHL course: Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior. Ellie- Lecturer/Lab Coordinator; Marie and Yi-wen- TAs
- Hannah Carr awarded International REU Program Fellow
- Omar Kassem awarded a Odyssey Scholar and Summer Fellow
- Yiqin Gao awarded a Developmental Neurobiology Undergraduate Fellow
Spring 2019
- Marie Greaney gets honorable mention for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Alden Hererra graduates from UChicago
- Anthony Osuma, CON Graduate Student Rotation
Winter 2019
- Jake Henderson, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
- Rosteen Mansouri-Rad, CON Graduate Student Rotation
Fall 2018
- Yi-wen Wang (post-doc) joins the lab
- Heckscher lab R01 officially starts!
- Marie Greaney, PhD candidate in Committee on Neuroscience, joins the lab.
- Elaine Kushkowski, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
- Marie Greany gets the Pritzker Neurobiology graduate fellowship
Summer 2018
- UChicago undergrads, Annie Ullyot and Noah Brookes, join the lab.
- Alden Herrera and Hannah Carr get DNUFO summer fellowships
- 2018 CSHL course: Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior. Ellie- Lecturer/Lab Coordinator; Julia Meng – TA.
- Katie Bell graduates from UChicago with BS having done a thesis in the Heckscher Lab
Spring 2018
- Julia Meng gets an NSF GRFP graduate fellowship.
- Julia Meng gets re-selection for MGCB training grant
- Elise Paniel joins the lab
- Katie Bell will attend graduate school at USC in the fall
- Grace Schultz, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
- Erica Mezias, CON Graduate Student Rotation
Winter 2018
- Marie Greaney, CON Graduate Student Rotation
- Khoi Nguyen, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
Fall 2017
- Meike Lobb-Rabe, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
- Julia Meng is selected to the MCB training grant
- Julia Meng gives talks at Drosophila Neurobiology Meeting, at Cold Spring Harbor and at the UChicago Molecular BioSciences Retreat
Summer 2017
- Julia Meng, CMB Graduate Student joins the lab
- Hannah Carr, Odyssey Summer Fellowship
- Machiah Gill, University of Miami Undergraduate, Summer Project
- Luis X. de Pablo, University of Chicago Lab School, Science Summer Link
- Alden Herrera, U Chicago Undergraduate joins the Heckscher Lab
Spring 2017
- Johnathon Hall, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
- Ellie is featured in The Atlantic article “Fly larvae help scientists understand and treat diseases. An Object Lesson” by Robin Tricoles
- Wreden et al., 2017 “Temporal cohorts of lineage-related neurons perform analogous functions in distinct sensorimotor circuits” published in Current Biology
Winter 2017
- Julia Meng, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
- Roy Morgan, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
- Hirono et al., 2017 , “The Hunchback temporal transcription factor establishes, but is not required to maintain, early-born neuronal identity” published in Neural Development
Fall 2016
- Harry Feng, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
- Hannah Carr, U Chicago Undergraduate joins the Heckscher Lab
- Anthony DiGiovanni, U Chicago Undergraduate joins the Heckscher Lab
- Sun and Heckscher 2016, “Using linear agarose channels to study Drosophila larval crawling behavior” published in JoVE
Summer 2016
- Wanhao Chi, GGSB Graduate Student Rotation
- Katie Bell, U Chicago undergraduate joins the Heckscher Lab
- Zarion Marshall joins the lab as Technician
- Clark et al. 2016 “Functional genetic screen to identify interneurons governing behaviorally distinct aspects of Drosophila larval motor programs” published in G3
Winter 2016
- Xiao Sun, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation
Fall 2015
- Chris Wreden, Ph.D. joins Heckscher lab as a Research Assistant
- Heckscher Lab opens in CLSC 915!