NEWS
What is happening in and around the lab
Ruby presents at the Chicago Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting
4th year undergrad Ruby Schnirman presented a poster of her work on Cdx4 at the Chicago Society for Neuroscience 2021 Annual Meeting earlier this month. Hear her explain her poster, entitled “Investigating a role for cdx4 in trunk neural crest specification”, in the video below or on our Research page!
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!