We welcome our new team member, Bria, who is a new Research Assistant at the Özpolat lab. She will work on germline regeneration in Platynereis. Bria graduated this past spring from Brown University with dual honors in biology and english nonfiction. Though she didn’t see the ocean until age 13, she's wanted to study marine organisms ever since she saw the episode “She sells seashells by the sea shore” from What’s New Scooby Doo. Bria first came to the MBL as a student researcher in Dr. Irina Arkhipova's lab, and she's thrilled to once again be part of the scientific community here!