Big congrats to our postdoc @mary-flores.bsky.social, who's among the 2025 Pew Latin American Fellows! 🐟🧬🫀🧪
Onwards, always.
#PewLatinAmericanFellows #zebrafish #PILife #PostdocLife #devbio @cudevbio.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Ranard, postdoctoral fellow in the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on receiving a NINDS K99/R00 award for her proposal entitled, “Impact of nutritional status on mechanisms guiding brain development”! @cupediatrics.bsky.social #zebrafish #devbio

Congratulations to Sheila Gupta, MSTP and Molecular Biology grad student and member of the @bruceappel.bsky.social lab, on her new NRSA F31 fellowship entitled “Axon selection for myelination by excitatory postsynaptic factors”! #devbio #zebrafish @cupediatrics.bsky.social

Congrats! Great to see some good news!

Meet Dr. Emily Bates! Dr. Bates studies how cells communicate to form our face and brain. She is a curious scientist who loves mentoring students and is passionate about music and outdoor activities! @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social @emilybateslab.bsky.social

Another outstanding thesis defense seminar from the @thefrancolab.bsky.social lab! Maddie Mason led an important new research direction on the origins of glioma- beautiful, creative, and impactful work! @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social

Congratulations to our very own @jenmckey.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Mentorship Award and Lily Folts for winning the Outstanding Community Service Award at the Annual WiSTEM Symposium! @cuanschutz.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social 🤩⭐🔬 We're s'proud of all their hard work!

One of our stars defended today! Dr. @luulitran.bsky.social from the @thefrancolab.bsky.social lab gave a stellar seminar describing her deep, insightful, and highly productive investigations of the neuron-glia switch.
#devbio @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social

Great to see this well-deserved recognition for our friends!

Meet the author! Lily Folts, a graduate student in the @jenmckey.bsky.social lab, just published her manuscript detailing a deep-learning-based method to count and classify ovarian follicles called OoCount. When Lily isn't in the lab, she likes to hike, read, and listen to live music.

Great to see collaborations such as this "develop" between the Section of Developmental Biology @cupediatrics.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social and our friends @colorado.edu. Looking forward to many more!

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Dempsey, Professor in the Section of Developmental Biology, for recieving the 2025 Pediatric Gastroenterology & Developmental Biology Section Research Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association! #devbio 🧪

With a PhD in Nutrional Science from the University of Illinois, Katie aims to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms linking poor maternal nutrition to impaired brain development and function. Katie is an avid weight lifter and hiker, and she paints really cool designs on her shoes!

Meet the author: Dr. Katie Ranard, a NINDS F32-funded postdoc in the Appel lab, just published her first manuscript describing use of zebrafish to model the impact of maternal nutritional deficiency on brain develepment.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jl...
🧪🧠 #zebrafish #devbio

We are so proud of Dr. Moran! It was a privilege to have her as our friend and colleague. We are excited to see what she accomplishes next!

JP Martin, grad student in @thefrancolab.bsky.social lab, is about to tell us how he proposes to discover mechanisms that drove human brain evolution for his thesis research! Stay tuned for the answer- in about 3 years when he defends!

Postdoc Austin Adkins noticed that mutant zebrafish he had inherited behaved oddly in their tanks. So he turned them into a new research project. Great demonstration of serendipity and creativity at today's Dev Bio Section meeting. #devbio #zebrafish 🧪

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