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Our Growing Lab Family....

06/05/2017 - 23:00

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Summer is off to a great start here in the Mesce Lab, as we welcome two new members of the lab family (and welcome back a familiar face)! Making their lab debut are undergraduate students Camille (Cami) Brod and Maria Godinez. Cami and Maria are both rising juniors enrolled in the neuroscience major, and will be developing projects to complement our ongoing studies into the mechanisms of recovery following nerve cord injury in the medicinal leech. We are looking forward to working with them this summer (and beyond)!

In several weeks, we will also welcome back Dr. Michael Baltzley from Western Oregon University, who is once again joining us as a visiting scholar this summer. Mike had previously visited the lab in Summer 2016, and will be continuing to work on the projects he started in the lab then. We are thrilled to have him back in the lab, and hope that this will become a summer tradition!

Welcome, welcome, everyone!

Anthony Receives the Rockstein Fellowship

05/25/2017 - 15:15

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2017 is shaping up to be an excellent year for all of us in the Mesce Lab! The next stop on the Congratulations Train goes to Ph.D. candidate Anthony Auletta, who received the Morris & Elaine Soffer Rockstein Fellowship in Entomology at yesterday’s Hodson Alumni Event & Student Awards Ceremony. The Rockstein Fellowship is intended to honor Entomology Ph.D. students who have demonstrated excellence in research and contributions to the department, and comes with a $2000 honorarium. Woot woot, Anthony!

ConGRADulations, Zoë!

05/18/2017 - 20:30

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Congratulations to former arachnid care specialist Zoë Harvey, who graduated from the U earlier this month with a B.S. in Technical Writing & Communication and a minor in Entomology! Zoë joined the lab in early 2015 to help us care for our growing spider collection, and we have greatly enjoyed having her in the lab. Now that she has graduated, she is set to start an exciting new job as a digital marketing specialist and writer here in the Twin Cities. We wish her luck in her new position, and are glad to hear that she’s staying in the area… because that means she can still pop by the lab for a visit here and there!

Morgan Presenting at GPN Colloqium

05/12/2017 - 14:00

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Ph.D. candidate Morgan Newhoff will be presenting preliminary findings from her doctoral research next Wednesday (May 17th), as part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Colloqium series. Her talk, entitled An Investigation into the Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Ultrasonic Neuromodulation, will take place from 12:00-1:00pm in Jackson Hall 2-137. Come join us if you can! And good luck, Morgan (we know you’ll do a great job)!

Tony Says, “See-attle You Later!”

04/27/2017 - 13:15

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We are very pleased to announce that lab manager Tony Bigelow has accepted an offer to join the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Washington as a Ph.D. student this coming fall! While it will be bittersweet to see Tony leave the lab later this year, we know that he will do great things in Seattle and are very proud of him. Congratulations, Tony!