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

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

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.

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 🧪

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

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 🧪