We have a lab day out, and try Pickleball for the first time.

High school student Adamend joins the lab. He will work with Beth to quantify images.

Two new graduate students — Sam Bertrand and Stevie Schauer join the lab.

After two years, we’re sad to see Maisey go. She defended an excellent thesis and is pictured here with Katie, her lab mentor.

He had a great time meeting his cohort and presenting his work in Chevy Chase.

in Friday Harbor labs. Everyone presents posters and Beth wins a talk prize - congratulations!

Beth speaks to the OPB show Think Out Loud about scoliosis research

The lab welcomes three new rotation students.

..from the Genetics Society of America. Congratulations Zoe!

The lab went to war with a 6-hour game of Risk

Alex Eve from Development interviews Dan for their Transitions in Development series.

Congratulations to John, who passed his qualifying exam with flying colors and is now a full PhD candidate.

Beth presents her Urotensin work at the ASCB meeting in Washington DC.

First author Beth and colleagues show the role for Urp1 and Urp2 peptides in zebrafish spine morphology, providing insights into human spinal curvature.

Gabriel attends SACNAS in Puerto Rico to talk about grad school at UO while Sophie (pictured) presents her Urotensin work at ABRCMS in Anaheim. Well done!

Beth spoke about neuropeptide control of spine morphology at the Aquatic Models of Human Disease conference. Their presentation was recognized with a “best postdoc talk” award - congratulations!

At our annual retreat, Zoe Irons is recognized with the von Hippel award for outstanding senior graduate student. Congratulations Zoe!

Sam is a rotation student who will be working with John and Beth this fall on spinal curve mutants. Welcome!

Our collaborative paper links variants in DAW1 to a human motile ciliopathy characterized by organ laterality defects.

Beth and co-authors from the lab report findings about the role of two Urotensin-family peptides in the control of spine morphology.