Welcome!

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Hsuan-Te (Miriam) Sun has joined the lab! Miriam is a graduate student in the Developmental Biology Department. She graduated from the California Institute of Technology in the class of 2020 with a B.S. in Biology. At Caltech, she studied cell migration dynamics during Drosophila embryogenesis as an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Dr. Angela Stathopoulos. She is excited to uncover more about dynamic cell behaviors in the adult Drosophila midgut.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Sanders, PhD, Developmental Biology student who defended and graduated!

Celebration Picnic

The O’Brien Lab celebrated Dr. O’Brien’s promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure with a physically distant picnic.

Welcome!

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Dr. Anthony Galenza joins the O’Brien Lab as a postdoc! He obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Alberta in Canada in 2020. In his thesis, Anthony studied how diet impacts health, immunity, and lifespan in the Drosophila model. His focus in the O’Brien lab is the mechanisms of morphogenesis during cellular differentiation in adult intestinal tissue.