May, 2008 - Visiting Researcher
We welcome Dr. Eyualem Abebe, an accomplished Nematologist from Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in North Carolina, who will be working with us this spring.
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April 25, 2008 - Wendy gets a T.A. award!
Wendy has won an award as "Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Biology"!
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April, 2008 - M.M. gets tenure
Effective July 1, 2008, Morris is tenured here at UC Riverside (Associate Professor, Step III).
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April, 2008 - Interview in Cell Biology Education
M.M. was interviewed for a short article on teaching, in the journal CBE: Life Sciences Education.
 Mays Hoopes (2008)
This spring the lab welcomes undergraduates Briana and Montreh.
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January, 2008 - A whole year zipped by
Check out a 50+ picture gallery of 2007, plus some other Bio Department events, now with images that are a stunning 720 pixels wide!
Pictures
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November, 2007 - Gina's Chili Wins First Prize!
Gina's chili won first prize at the UCR Academic Senate Chili Cook-Off.
Pictures
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August,
2007 - First graduate degree from the lab
Congratulations to George Hsu, who successfully defended his MSc on studies of embryonic gene expression in Pristionchus pacificus!
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July,
2007 -
Summer!
We
welcome Antoinette, who is joining us for the summer as a MARCU* student.
Congratulations to Katy, whose poster won an honorable mention
at the International Worm Meeting last month, and to Wendy, who
shared a prize for best talk at the CMDB symposium. And a job well
done to Melissa for her talk at the International C. elegans Meeting!
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June
30, 2007 - Worm Show 2007
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June,
2007 - International C. elegans Meeting in UCLA
The 16th
International C.
elegans Meeting will occur at the end of June at University
of California, Los Angeles. We have several posters and a
talk to present, and yes, there
*will* be a Worm Show! Morris and colleague Curtis
Loer (University
of San Diego) will be presenting a fun-packed half hour of
all-new material, which will include musical numbers, worm
humor, and video parody.
Meeting
Website
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March,
2007 - NSF CAREER Award Funded!
Morris is the
recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, IOS#0643325. Details
Update: We have also received a small R03
Award from the NIH.
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February,
2007 - Video Interview on Active Learning
Morris and
two colleagues from UCR, Drs. Jan Stets and Richard Cardullo,
were interviewed
at the end of 2006 about active learning approaches in undergraduate
teaching. See the videos here.
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January,
2007 - Welcome to new students
This quarter,
we
welcome Melissa Owraghi (CMDB) and rotating student James Gosses
(GGB),
plus undergraduates Serena (who was also with us in fall quarter)
and Shannon.
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August
15,
2006 - A couple of papers, and a new student
We welcome
George Hsu, an MSc student in the CMDB program, who has just
joined our lab. We also have two papers accepted. One is a review
of the C. elegans endomesoderm gene regulatory network
that will appear in BioEssays, and the other is a paper
describing maternal expression of the meds
and additional surprises in the endoderm specification pathway
that will appear in Developmental Biology. Papers
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July
10,
2006 - A great start to summer
Congratulations
to Samer, who
passed his qualifying and oral exams in early July, and also
to Wendy, who received 2nd prize for her presentation at the
CMDB symposium in June.
We also welcome Serena and Daniel who are joining us for
the summer. And our paper on MS specification is out!
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June
2, 2006 -
Paper on MS specification accepted
A paper on
the specification of the MS blastomere by a T-box factor has
been accepted to the journal Development. Congratulations
to its first author, Gina, as well as Katy and Wendy!
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