Our big happy worm lineage 🪱🤗. It was so good to gather, catch up, and kick off what looks like an incredible meeting! #TAGC24

The featured speakers in the worm sessions get walk-up music! 🎶🪱🎵 And David Katz is being tight lipped about their selections, so the only way to find out what Oded Rechavi, king of the tweet, has picked is to join us.... My tech Scott Roques is also making his talk debut!

PEQG walking into the model organism throw down #TAGC24

Not only did our undergrad Arthur win an NIH DSP & Genetics Society of America award to attend his first conference #TAGC24, but he took to it like a fish to water! (or a worm to OP50??) He stayed out making friends, made it to all the morning sessions, AND asked a few questions to boot. 🤩

Check out Lee lab junior Alex Beaudoin at his poster in the UMass Lowell Student Research Symposium! He's showing a surprising result about chromatin & dauer entry, which will become his UMass Lowell’s Honors College thesis next year. (& thanks to Joseph C. Hartman for this photo of Alex-in-action!)

Made it to the afternoon poster session to catch the rest of the Lee lab undergrad posters! 🥳Rising senior Allie Sciarratta, who'll be doing her UMass Lowell’s Honors College thesis next semester, and sophomores Thiago Borges & Kelin Funes, who were inaugural River Hawk Scholars Academy Roads to Research Fellows!

🎉HUGE CONGRATS to Deepshi Ananthaswamy (Deepshi A) for defending her UMass Lowell Biology MS thesis last Friday! It's a flex when someone leaves their defense questioning saying that "it was such a fun conversation!" You'd be lucky to have her, so look out for her PhD apps this fall!

Do bakers daydream about leaving their job to do a PhD in molecular biology?

Congratulations to Lee lab Research Assistant, Deepshikha Ananthaswamy! Deepshikha received the ✨Best Graduate Poster Presentation✨ at the NESDB 2024 meeting! Teresa Lee @umasslowell UMass Lowell Biology (photo courtesy of Deepshikha's LinkedIn)

Meet this year's cohort of Society for Developmental Biology Choose Development! Fellows, pursuing summer research training in SDB member labs. Cornell University Lund University MSU UNLV UMass Lowell ECU Montana State University Idaho State University Ohio State University of Colorado Anschutz Ida Chow