Check out this recent publication from one of our researchers based in Toronto. Congratulations, Masha!! pnas.org/content/early/… #hydra #PlanarCellPolarity #FatLike #Dachsous

Congrats to Jennysue Kasiah for passing her Qualifying Exam today!

A fantastic day of science during the 3rd Joint Retreat of the WashUDevBio and @WUSTLdbbs Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology Program - great talks and poster discussions - thanks McNeill Lab Aaron Johnson, Andrew Yoo and students!

First DRSCB interview weekend of 2022. Excited to meet all the applicants, and get to know the 2022 cohort! @WUSTLdbbs

It has been a great '22 interview cycle! So many brilliant minds ready to take the next step in their academic careers. A big thanks to the faculty that conduct interviews and an even bigger thanks to the grad students who help welcome these interviewees to #WashU

Today we say farewell to our Post Doc, Alex Fulford. It has been such a pleasure to have you in lab these past few years. One of our corner stone lab members for the U.S. lab. We wish you all the best luck starting your new career!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Chen Dong on a successful thesis defense! It's been great to see you grow as a scientist these past 4 years. Good luck on your career adventure as a BCG consultant! #wustldbbs #DRSCB #devbio #PhDone

Congratulations to the 2021 #drscb cohort for completing their 1st year of grad school! It's been wonderful to get to know these brilliant, budding scientists this past year. Looking forward to the amazing science they'll do in the future.

Look out for our, soon to be, PNAS paper! We describe an ancient role for the Hippo pathway in axis formation and morphogenesis in Hydra. In the meantime, check out the pre-print on bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

Casey is a summer student in the lab. He's a senior biology major at SLU, who’s summer role is investigating the potential, shared role of Fat3/Dchs1 in amacrine cell migration and synapse formation with @Jennysuekasiah. Welcome to the lab Casey, we're happy to work with you!

A warm welcome to our second summer student Cate! She is a biology/pre-med student at SLU. Cate will be working alongside Didier, examining various tissues for Fat4 localization, and looking at Fat4 binding partners.

Meet our Post-Bacc! This is Evan he is joining the McNeill lab via the @Wustldbbs #DRSCB Post-Baccalaureate program. He received his Bachelors from Truman State University. Evan will spend the next 2 years exploring Fat using #Drosophila. Welcome Evan!!

Thanks for sharing our exciting NEMP1 findings!! Read to find out how NEMP1 is involved with erythropoiesis, nuclear envelope opening and erythroblasts enucleation.

Welcome to our new rotations students Ariel and Plus! Both students are 1st years in the #DRSCB program @WUSTLdbbs. We are excited to have them and wish them all the best as they start their #PhDjourney.

A great thread for how to keep organized as a new PI! (At least a great place to start)

Great to see grad students in action!

Our paper on NEMP1 and the nuclear envelope is out now!

Kicking off the McNeill lab retreat with a talk about Nemp1 from Didier Hodzic

Check out our new review in CTDB about Fat and Dachsous cadherin's roles in mammalian development, written by our very own Jennysue Kasiah reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/…

Congratulations Tony Yu-Chen Tsai!!!!!