NEWS
What is happening in and around the lab
Vicky gives a talk at BSDB
At the April 2021 British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) Meeting, lab head Dr. Vicky Prince gave an excellent 12 minute talk on previous grad student Dr. Ana Beiriger’s thesis work on efferent neuron migration. Watch the talk, entitled “Genetic and cellular mechanisms that distinguish zebrafish hindbrain efferent neuron populations” here or over on our Research page!
Manny successfully defends his thesis!
Congratulations to Dr. Manny Rocha, who expertly defended his thesis entitled “Cdx4 regulates the development of neural crest cells in the posterior body of zebrafish embryos” and is now the Prince lab’s newest PhD! Manny led the Prince lab’s recent research into neural crest patterning and regionalization. During his time in the lab, he has been a wonderful collaborator and a mentor to many younger lab members. He (and his canine companion Butters) will be sorely missed, but we wish him luck in his new endeavor as an analyst at Driehaus Capital Management, where he’ll be working for their life sciences fund!
Izzy’s lateral line innervation review is published!
An article by lab undergrad Izzy Cisneros reviewing the comparative anatomy of fish lateral line innervation patterns was just published in UChicago’s undergraduate research journal, Scientia. Check out this thorough review (with some awesome figures) on p. 24 of the Winter 2021 issue of Scientia here!