May 2024: Samara Williams joins as a graduate student
/Welcome Samara!
Read MoreCongratulations to undergraduate student Sophie for winning an oral presentation award at UO’s Undergraduate Student Symposium.
Read MoreCongratulations to grad student Stevie Schauer, who won a best poster award at our university’s annual graduate research forum.
Read MoreCongratulations to Gabriel for being selected for a 1-year career mentorship course.
Read MoreZoe Irons defended her thesis (no corrections!) and next she will be an assistant professor at Dickinson college. Congratulations Dr. Irons.
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Luna-Arvizu, who defended a wonderful thesis and is now heading to work in science industry.
Read MoreBeth organizes and hosts the Skeletal Research Interest Group arm of ZDMS.
Read MoreUndergrad Calvin Chmelir and his mentor Samuel Bertrand were awarded a fellowship to support their work in the Grimes lab over the summer. Congratulations!
Read MoreCongratulations Sophie, who defended an excellent honors college thesis today. Pictured here with her mentor, Beth.
Read MoreWelcome Michelle, a graduate rotation student who is working with Stevie on modeling scoliosis using zebrafish.
Read MoreMax is a neuroscientist who is rotating in the lab. He is working with Sam on cell polarity and cilia.
Read MoreDan, Sam and Stevie drive up to the San Juan’s for the conference where Stevie and Sam both give posters and Dan gives a talk on the labs scoliosis work.
Read MoreSam, Beth and John (pictured here with Jeff Farrell) attend the TAGC meeting in Washington where Beth gave a talk and Sam a poster. Good job!
Read MoreUniversity of Oregon undergraduate student Calvin joins the lab to work with Sam on cilia function in development. Welcome!
Read MoreLuke is an undergraduate student support by a fellowship from the Knight Campus. He will work with John to understand spine shape.
Read MoreBeth and others in the lab put together a protocol to describe how to visualize the zebrafish skeleton using micro-computed tomography and freely-available software.
Read MoreJohn, Zoe and Beth attended the Zebrafish Disease Models meeting in Durham, NC, and John won a poster award. Congratulations!
Read MoreCongratulations to Sam for winning the Adamson award and Gabriel for winning the von Hippel award, given to outstanding junior and senior graduate students in our department, respectively.
Read MoreWe say goodbye and good luck to Bryson, a research technician who worked in the lab for two years. We will miss him!
Read MoreSamara is a rotation student who will work with Gabriel on left-right patterning. Welcome!
Read MoreMany features of vertebrate bodies, such as the skeleton and the limbs, display symmetry between left and right. By contrast, the internal organs exhibit left-right asymmetries in their position and structure.
In the Grimes lab, we use genetic, genomic, and imaging procedures to understand the basis of these symmetries and asymmetries during development and growth. We are also interested in how they contribute to human diseases such as birth defects and scoliosis.
For our work, we primarily use the zebrafish model organism.