Congratulations to Dr. Favour Ononiwu

by Heidi Hehnly in ,

We are thrilled to celebrate Favour Ononiwu’s successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation last Friday. Favour joined our program during the challenging days of the COVID-19 pandemic and has overcome many hurdles on her way to this milestone. Her perseverance, creativity, and scientific rigor have left a mark on our lab and on the field of developmental cell biology.

She talked about her recent work titled “Functionally Essential and Structurally Diverse: Insights into the Zebrafish Left-Right Organizer’s Cilia via Optogenetic IFT88 Perturbation and Array Tomography”that sheds new light on how cilia contribute to the development of the zebrafish Left-Right Organizer (LRO), known as the Kupffer’s Vesicle (KV).

We are excited to see where her career takes her next, knowing she will continue to advance science with creativity and determination.

Congratulations, Dr. Ononiwu! 🎉

Dr. Ononiwu on the left.

Welcome Athena Allred from University of Arizona!

by Heidi Hehnly in

Athena will be hanging out with us this summer learning microscopy and zebrafish development! Can’t wait for her to image microtubule and actin dynamics during KV development!

Athena Allred (Summer REU) from University of Arizona checking out her first clutch of embryos!

Congrats to Hehnly Lab Seniors!

by Heidi Hehnly in , ,

Congrats to Alison Gerety who received a distinction in Biology, was a Renee Crown Honors student, and won an Outstanding Achievement in Biology award for her thesis on “Characterization of Vimentin in Zebrafish Lateral Line Development”!

Congrats to Abdalla W. Shamil who was awarded both Academic and Research Achievements, and was a Renee Crown Honors student!

We can’t wait to see all that you go on to do!

Abdalla, Heidi, and Alison before the Biology Award Ceremony.

Alison at her poster on her Thesis project.