Happy National Graduate Student appreciation week Lauryn Higginson Nina Barr Emily Arnold !!! So grateful to have you in the lab!! 🥳🥳

Day 1 at #SfN2023 was a success! Congratulations Lauryn Higginson on receiving the SfN professional development travel award!! 🎉🪰

Lab Holiday lunch and secret Santa! 🎁

The Morton lab now has 3 PhD candidates! Congratulations Emily Arnold! Well deserved. 🎊🎊 Cool science ahead! RNA exosome, cell fate, human motor neuron differentiation! 👩🏼‍🔬

Tri-lab retreat with @SanabriaLab and Peter Mullen’s groups is off to a great start! Emily Arnold was up first for the Morton lab and gave a great talk!! Can’t wait to steal some of her slides! 😊🎊🎊

Tri-lab retreat in Palm Springs with @SanabriaLab and Peter Mullen’s groups was a success! Day 2- Lauryn Higginson, Nina Barr , and Wang represented for the Morton lab! Great talks! 👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬🎉

🚨 The lab's first preprint is out! Led by rockstar graduate student Lauryn Higginson, we present the first cell-specific transcriptome analysis of the RNA exosome, a conserved RNase, in a fully developed Drosophila brain! #RNABiology #Neuroscience 🪰🧠 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some much needed good news! Emily Arnold, grad student in my lab, received a great score (within the payline) on her NRSA F31!!! Congratulations, Emily! 🎊🎊🎊 NINDS #RNAExosome #hiPSC-derived Motor Neurons #NeurologicalDisease 🧠