Lab News & Outings

Recent Lab News

• 2023: NSF Division of Physics grant awarded.

• 2023: NIGMS R35 grant renewed.

• 2022: JHU Catalyst grant awarded.

• 2022: Buck Institute: Nathan Shock Center grant awarded.

• June 14, 2022: Congratulations to Jeremiah, Aleksey and Andrew for the online appearance of the genome assembly preprint!

• May 2022: Andrew Gordus is awarded the Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award in recognition of his research program!

• May 2022: Congratulations to Rebekka Paisner for winning an award for her teaching!

• May 2022: Harjit Khaira finishes her rotation in the lab, having further developed assays probing color vision in flies.

• March 2022: Christian Wesselborg finishes his rotation in the lab, contributing to functional imaging work in C elegans and behavioral experiments probing color vision in flies.

• January 2022: Anthony Rabinovich joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant!

• November 22, 2021: Our paper on motor sequences underlying spider web-building has appeared in print at Current Biology!

• June 15, 2021: Rebecca Foertsch joins the lab as the new lab manager and technician!

• June 2021: Congratulations to Greg in being award an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology!

• May 27th, 2021: Congratulations to Hsin-Yi for successfully completing the DBO exam!

• May 25th, 2021: The lab’s first paper is now available as a preprint! “Distinct movement patterns generate stages of spider web-building”. For a summary, see this Twitter thread!

• May 1st, 2021: Darya Task joins the lab as a postdoc!

• July 15th, 2020: Iman Mosley joins the lab as the new lab manager and technician!

• February 15th, 2020: Greg Artiushin joins the lab as a postdoc!

• 6/19/2019: Andrew & Ariel present our worm research at the International C. elegans Conference.

• 6/17/2019: Andrew, Nick, Jeremiah and Abel present the spider behavioral, genetics and neurophysiology projects at the American Arachnological Society 2019 meeting.

• 6/2019: Lindsay Anderson joins the lab as an REU summer student!

• 6/2019: Rebekka Paisner, graduate student in the JHU CMDB program, joins the lab!

Lab Socials & Outings

June 2021

Monster minigolf celebrating Hsin-Yi’s successful DBO exam!

May 2019

Dinner celebrating Nick’s acceptance to veterinary school, and Elana’s acceptance to biology graduate school:

March 2019

Lab potluck

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