Lucy O'Brien named a CZBiohub Investigator!

We are excited that our fearless PI has been named a new CZBiohub Investigator. Congratulations, Lucy!

This award will propel our work on in vivo live imaging of stem cells, their progeny, and the organ-scale dynamics of these diverse ensembles as we create 4D atlases of organs with single-cell resolution.

Lucy is one of 86 Bay Area investigators selected for their potential to contribute “innovative and visionary research…to help solve critical challenges in biomedicine”; read more about this amazing group here: https://www.czbiohub.org/investigator-competition-2021/

Boba makes the fly work light! The O’Brien lab after an outing to get boba tea.

Jason Millington Awarded Fellowship!

O’Brien Lab Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Jason Millington has been awarded the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congratulations, Jason!

Farewell, Erin!

Erin is a few weeks into her new job, but graciously came back so we could give her a proper celebratory send-off. Also an occasion to toast the arrival of our new postdoc Jason Millington! We played Bocce with varying levels of aplomb and then enjoyed a leisurely lunch in Los Gatos.

Goofing off after some fiercely competitive Bocce ball.

Welcome Jason!

Jason Millington has joined as a postdoc in the O’Brien and Huang labs. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of British Columbia in Canada in 2021. In his thesis, he studied the mechanisms underlying sex differences in growth during development in Drosophila, with a particular focus on how dietary nutrition differentially affects growth in males and females. He joined Stanford co-supervised between the O’Brien and Huang labs in October 2021. His research focuses on investigating how the cells of the gut interact with gut microbes.

Farewell, Erin!

It is bittersweet to say goodbye to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Erin Sanders! Dr. Sanders begins a new position as a Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lights!

Congratulations!

Former Lab member Anna Kim’s manuscript Independently paced calcium oscillations in progenitor and differentiated cells in an ex vivo epithelial organ is posted! Check it out!

Welcome!

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.

Congratulations!

Lucy O’Brien has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with Tenure. Congratulations, Lucy!

Lucy O'Brien has been promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor with Tenure. Congratulations, Lucy!