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.
Congratulations!
Leslie Koyama and Paola Moreno Roman
January, 2020
Former grad student, Dr. Leslie Koyama, has moved on from the O’Brien Lab to a position as Scientist at Akoya Biosciences! Congratulations Leslie!
July, 2020
Former O’Brien Lab grad student-turned postdoc Dr. Paola Moreno-Roman is now Director of Strategic Partnerships at Foldscope Instruments. Congratulations Paola!
Congratulations!
Jackson Liang and Sang Ngo
Former lab members Sang Ngo and Dr. Jackson Liang’s paper Disruption of EGF Feedback by Intestinal Tumors and Neighboring Cells in Drosophila was published in Current Biology. Congrats Sang and Jackson!
The Bellymount is out!
Congratulations to Leslie, Elsa, Andres, and the other co-authors (who escaped before we took this photo)!
Our first lab baby!
Welcome to the world, Naomi Banerjee, and congratulations to Aparna and Shamik!
Paola Moreno-Roman and Sang Ngo receive their diplomas!
At the Biology Commencement ceremony, Paola received her Ph.D. diploma and was hooded by Lucy. Sang received his Bachelor's diploma with honors. And Lucy found that it is possible to ride a bike while wearing full regalia. Congratulations Paola and Sang (and Lucy for not crashing)!
Sang Ngo wins the Kennedy Prize!
Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize for best undergraduate thesis in the natural sciences!
Sang was honored at a special luncheon ceremony at which David Kennedy himself, along with Lucy, presented the award. Congratulations Sang!
Paola Moreno-Roman successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation!
The lab celebrated with a t-shirt panorama depicting the stages of epithelial cell integration that Paola identified in her dissertation research. Congratulations Paola!
Erin Sanders wins an ISSCR Merit Award!
This award recognizes "distinguished abstracts" that will be presented at the ISSCR annual meeting in LA this June. Congratulations Erin!
Sang Ngo wins a Stanford Firestone Prize!
Sang’s Biology Honors Thesis was award a Firestone Prize, given to the top 10% of undergraduate theses. Congrats Sang!