Lab News
JANUARY 2025
• Congratulations to Dr. Neha Koundinya on her successful thesis defense!
• Neha’s paper on yeast coronin and GMF has been accepted at JBC!
DECEMBER 2024
• Liyuan, Nate and Emma head to ASCB in San Diego, where they will present posters on their research projects
• Bruce gives his State of the Lab address (part one)!
• Undergraduate technician Emma Spaulding begins researching!
NOVEMBER 2024
• Doctoral student Anton Davydenko joins the lab for his rotation
• Dr. Joe Magliozzi’s paper on septin-actin crosstalk has been accepted at Current Biology!
OCTOBER 2024
• Congratulations to Malobika Bhowmick, who has accepted a Lab Analyst position at Waypoint Analytical in Memphis, Tennessee!
SEPTEMBER 2024
• Doctoral student Sydney Clifford and Master’s student Julia Hoffman join the lab for their rotations!
AUGUST 2024
• Dr. Lucas Runyan, who received his PhD last year at The Ohio State University in Prof. Dmitri Kudryashov's lab, has joined the Goode Lab as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome, Lucas!
• Lucy and Sophie present their summer research projects at SciFest XIII!
• Joe, Jasmin, and Bruce soon heading to the GRC (Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton) meeting in Andover, NH.
• Looking forward to the cheese-themed pool party at Bruce and Avi’s house this Friday!
JULY 2024
• Prof. Shae Padrick (Drexel University) visits the Goode Lab for a week and gives a special seminar on septin-actin crosstalk.
• Excited to host Prof. Jenny Gallop (University of Cambridge) for a special seminar on filopodia!
• Dr. Alison Wirshing’s new paper on improved tools for live imaging F-actin in yeast is coming out at MBoC!
JUNE 2024
• Farewell to longtime lab member and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Nikita Alimov – we will miss you!
• Loren Genrich has joined the lab as our new lab manager and yeast geneticist and microscopist. Welcome, Loren!
• Undergrads Sophie Fredberg and Lucy Zhang start their ‘full immersion’ summer research experiences with mentors Nate Zaccardi and Emma McGuirk.
• Congrats to Emma McGuirk for being selected to give a talk on her research at the upcoming Neuro/MCB retreat.
MAY 2024
• Farewell to Malobika, who is moving to Tennessee with her family. We enjoyed having you in the lab and will miss you.
• Congrats to Alex Reading for graduating with highest honors and earning the Doris Brewer Cohen award, the highest research honor given to an undergrad researcher in the life sciences. He starts the PhD program in Bioengineering at MIT in the fall, and we wish him well!
• Congrats to Adah Welsh for graduating with honors and earning a very prestigious Biology research award for her stellar senior honors thesis work. She starts the PhD program in MCB at Duke in the fall, and we wish her well!
APRIL 2024
• Dr. Joe Magliozzi's new paper on the roles of yeast formins, Bud6, and Bil2 in the mating response has been accepted at MBoC!
• Malobika Bhowmick has joined the lab as a part-time research technician. Welcome, Malobika!
MARCH 2024
• Gearing up for the big lab party Friday night at Bruce and Avi's house, celebrating the arrival of Priyanka and Jasmin to the lab, and other milestones.
FEBRUARY 2024
• Excited that postdoc Dr. Lucas Runyan will be joining the Goode lab in August.
• Nate Z. does a fabulous job on his first departmental talk! (Feb 24)
• Excited that third year BCBP PhD student Jasmin Kwak has joined the Goode lab to study actin cables!
• Excited that Loren Genrich (from collaborator Josh Kelley's lab in Maine) is moving to Boston in June and will join the Goode lab!