Wow so much to celebrate!

Congratulations to Julia Meng for her nomination from the CMB program for the BSD Harper Fellowship (for best PhD thesis)
Congratulations to Marie Greaney and Maxime Lehman for winning the best presentation prize at the 2021 CNRS-Chicago symposium.
Congratulations to Julia Meng who accepted a post-doc in the Lyon’s lab
Congratulations to Yiqin Gao for her acceptance into the Neuroscience Honors Program!
Congratulations to Bianca Campagnari on her DNUFO summer fellowship.
Congratulations to Juan Zuniga for submitting his Neuroscience thesis!
Zarion Marshall joins the lab (CON graduate program)
Conor Lee-Smith, CMB Graduate Student Rotation
Talia Friedman, undergraduate joins the lab

Congratulations to Marie Greaney for her NRSA F31 Fellowship
Congratulations to Julia Meng for the publication of 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

Welcome Deeptha Vasudevan, post-doctoral researcher
Our very own Zarion Marshall rotates as part of the CON Graduate Student Rotation

Summer 2020

Jake Henderson selected for the Developmental Biology Training Grant for a second year
Yiqin Gao awarded BSCD Summer Research Fellow
Juan Zuniga awarded a Metcalf Summer Fellow
Good-bye Yi-wen Wang, PhD. Congratulations on your new job in Taiwan!
Good-bye to Zarion Marshall, good luck as a UChicago graduate student in the fall.

Congratulations to Julia for publishing her manuscript “Temporal transcription factors determine circuit membership by permanently altering motor neuron-to-muscle synaptic partnerships.” Meng JL, Wang Y, Carrillo RA, Heckscher ES (2020). eLife; 9:e56898
Congratulations to Hannah Carr for graduation from UChicago and being accepted at UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Sean Corcoran, DRSB Graduate Student Rotation (socially-distanced)

Congratulations to Julia for publishing her manuscript “How prolonged expression of Hunchback, a temporal transcription factor, re-wires locomotor circuits” in eLife;8:e46089

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

Congratulations Marie Greaney on her honorable mention for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Alden Hererra for graduation from UofC
Anthony Osuma, CON Graduate Student Rotation

Welcome undergrads,\ Annie Ullyot and Noah Brookes to the lab.
Congratulations to Alden Herrera and Hannah Carr on their DNUFO summer fellowships

Congratulations to Julia Meng passing her qualifying exam
Meike Lobb-Rabe, CMB Graduate Student Rotation.
Congradulations to Julia Meng for being selected to be on the MCB training grant.
Congratulations to Julia Meng, who gave talks at Drosophila Neurobiology Meeting, at Cold Spring Harbor and at the UChicago Molecular BioSciences Retreat

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

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

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
Ellie gives a talk at Janelia Research Campus for the Behavioral Neurogenetics of Drosophila Larva meeting
Ellie gives a talk In Ann Arbor, MI for the Midwest Society of Developmental Biology Regional Meeting
Ellie gives a talk in Chicago, IL for the Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Program, University of Chicago

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