Ryan Null has been working to create an AI model that can count segment numbers instantly in Platynereis. We would like to crowdsource the training data and if you like, you can help us. Go here and annotate some images!
Goodbye Jamie!
Jamie was a research assistant while we were still in Woods Hole, helped move the lab to St. Louis and spent the summer with us there. She is back at the MBL. We will miss her very much (worms will miss her even more so!).
Bria wins the pumpkin carving contest
Among many of her talents, Bria is a skilled pumpkin carver. Her carving with a Nereidid worm won the majority of votes at the Biology Department, and she had some pretty tough competition! Congrats Bria, and thank you for the amazing art.
Welcome Brandon McCrow-Bennett
Brandon joined us as our first undergraduate research assistant as a part of the Enter program. We are so excited to have you Brandon!
Goodbye Emma!
Emma is moving onto a new adventure to work on cephalopods at the Albertin Lab at the MBL. Emma, you will be sorely missed, your work and tools you have developed will be used at the lab years to come! We are excited for you!
Congratulations Blake for his T32 Postdoc Fellowship!
Blake has been awarded a T32 Postdoctoral Training Fellowship via the Center for Regenerative Medicine.
He will investigate the role of asymmetric cell division in cell fate determination in Platynereis dumerilii.
Welcome Faith Stemmler
Faith Stemmler joined the lab as our new lab manager. Faith is a native St. Louisan, she studied plankton in the past when she lived in Alaska, and brings a ton of aquaculture knowledge to the lab. Welcome Faith!
Embryology 2022 at MBL
Özpolat Lab ran the Annelid module at the Embryology Course 2022. We had a great time with the students, and ended up experiencing one of the best worm hunts ever!
Photo by Jana Sipkova
We are in St. Louis!
Our lab has arrived in St. Louis, with Emma back in Woods Hole keeping our animals alive until they get sent. We are so excited to be here and can’t wait to welcome new students, and team members to the lab.
Welcome Sterling "Blake" Clint Tohdacheeney Martin
Blake has just joined the lab as a new postdoc. He brings his extensive experience in embryogenesis, imaging, and genome editing! Welcome Blake!
Our HCR Probe Maker Tool is Online
Here is a New Year Gift from Dr. Ryan W. Null. You can design your own HCR probes using this tool. Thank you Ryan!
HCR Probe Makerl.edu/
New publication: Segment number threshold determines juvenile onset of germline cluster expansion in Platynereis dumerilii
Labımızda doktora yapmayı düşünen öğrenciler için bilgiler
Merhaba bilimin pırıl pırıl yeni nesilleri,
Sizlerden zaman zaman benimle doktora öğrencisi olarak çalışma konusunda e-postalar alıyorum. Tekrar tekrar aynı şeyleri yazmamak adına buraya birkaç not düşmek istedim.
Şu anda çalıştığım yerde (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole), PhD programımız yok ve bu yüzden öğrenci kabul edemiyorum. Fakat Nisan 2022'den itibaren yeni bir üniversiteye taşınıyoruz (Washington University in St Louis). https://goo.gl/maps/RguBCDVq6GrUUtzz8
Yeni üniversitenin PhD programı var (yaşasın!). Bununla birlikte ben direk olarak seçtiğim öğrencileri alamıyorum. Doktora programına sizin başvurmanız ve kabul edilmeniz gerekiyor. Bu sürece benim hiçbir etkim olamıyor. Programa kabul edildikten sonra her öğrenci rotasyon yapıyor: Programın dahilinde listedeki laboratuvarlardan 3 tanesini seçiyorsunuz (bu noktada benim labımı da seçmek veya seçmemek tamamen size bağlı). Seçtiğiniz bu 3 labda 3-4 ay süren rotasyonlardan sonra, hangisini isterseniz (tabi o lab da sizi isterse) orada doktora tezine başlıyorsunuz. Yani bir çeşit deneme süreci. Herkes için çok faydalı bir şey.
WashU’nun birkaç farklı doktora programı var, biz bu programlardan 2-3 tanesi ile çalışacağız (Nisan’dan sonra belli olacak). Şu sayfadan takip edebilirsiniz.
Hepinize başarılar
Bria is giving a talk at NeMOC-OSS
Bria is giving a talk as a part of NeMOC-OSS series about optimizing Hybridization Chain Reaction on Nov 1st at noon.
If you are interested in joining these online seminar series, see the info below:
From David Stern: Join the New Model Organism Occasional Seminar Series (NeMOC-OSS). Informal virtual talks on successes and struggles in building tools. Register here.
Welcome Ranny Passos Ribeiro
Rannyele (Ranny) has joined us as a post-doctoral researcher, and will be working on establishing single cell sequencing techniques to investigate germline cell regeneration in Platynereis. Ranny is a Brazilian scientist passionate about annelids and she received her PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, where she worked on regeneration in syllid annelids.
Welcome Ranny!
Welcome Jamie MacKinnon
Jamie MacKinnon joined the lab as a research assistant, and will be working on optimizing growth in Platynereis dumerilii cultures. Jamie has received her B.S. in Marine Biology from Roger Williams University.. Welcome Jamie!
(PS: Beets, bears, Battlestar Galactica)
Embryology Course 2021
Bria, Emma, and Duygu taught at the Embryology Course at the MBL this year. We thank all the students for their amazing work, great (and slightly crazy) ideas, and excitement around our lil worms!
Here are some pictures of the dapi and phalloidin stain on a worm we collected in Woods Hole by Mike and Marlen. (We called her Scary Lady, she is a Glyceridae species). Here are her pictures before fixing.
Bria is presenting a poster at the SDB Meeting
Bria will present a poster at the 80th SDB Meeting (virtual this year). Come check out her poster!
Program Abstract #390 and Remo Table #C11
Poster Session 3C
Session Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
Location: Remo Building C
Welcome Rebecca Bachtel
We are happy to welcome Rebecca Bachtel, who joined the lab this summer as a research assistant. Rebecca has a master’s degree and studied invasive snails and their trematode parasites, which affect different bird species that ingest the snails. Rebecca will work on establishing transgenic lines of Platynereis at our lab.
Duygu is giving a talk at the 1st ISRB Meeting
We have a new society for regeneration! International Society for Regenerative Biology.
The society will have its first meeting in April. Duygu will be giving a talk on germ cell regeneration in annelids.
