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2026

Jul 01, 2026 Congrats to Alli Mancini and Mallorie Jenne for presenting their posters at the SDB Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV!
Jun 12, 2026 New preprint! Mallorie’s work on the lipid raft-linker gene Raftlin-2 in migrating neural crest cells is up on bioRxiv.
Jun 02, 2026 Thank you to the Emerald Foundation, Inc. for supporting our work through a Young Investigator Award!
May 02, 2026 Congrats to Mallorie Jenne for giving a talk at the Mid-Atlantic SDB Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA!
May 01, 2026 Congrats to Alli Mancini for winning the Best Postdoctoral Flash Talk Prize at the Mid-Atlantic SDB Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA!
Jan 06, 2026 New preprint! Stephanie’s work on lipid-mediated reinforcement of FGF/MAPK signaling in otic placode specification is up on bioRxiv.

2025

Dec 01, 2025 Congrats to Alli Mancini and Mallorie Jenne for presenting their posters at the ASCB Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA!
Nov 01, 2025 Congratulations to Alex Pomper for being awarded a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from Johns Hopkins to support his research in the lab!
Sep 01, 2025 Congratulations to Mallorie Jenne on being awarded an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship (NIDCR) to support her work on Raftlin-2 in neural crest cell specification and migration!
Apr 01, 2025 Congratulations to Stephanie Peralta for being awarded a Diversity Supplement from the NIDCR!
Mar 14, 2025 Hope you caught Alli, Mallorie, Stephanie, and Ilya’s great posters at the Mid-Atlantic SDB Meeting in Richmond, VA!
Mar 14, 2025 Congrats to Alli Mancini for winning the Best Postdoctoral Poster Prize at the Mid-Atlantic SDB Meeting in Richmond, VA!
Mar 01, 2025 Mike was awarded the H.W. Mossman Early-Career Investigator Award in Developmental Biology from the American Association for Anatomy, presented at the AAA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR this March!

2024

Aug 01, 2024 We are excited to thank the NIGMS for supporting our work through an R35 award! Can’t wait to discover how membrane fluidity influences developmental cell migration!
Jun 25, 2024 Our collaboration with the Strobl-Mazzulla lab on miR-203 and extracellular vesicle communication between neural crest and placode cells is out now in PLoS Biology!
Jan 15, 2024 Our paper on how SMPD3 expression is spatially regulated in the developing embryo by SOXE factors is out now in Developmental Biology!