2024 news

What a year! It's been fun settling in and building in exciting new directions. Some highlights and happenings as we say goodbye to 2024: February 2024: We received our first octopuses! After a long journey, it was so rewarding to finally get them into the lab. March 2024: Two new undergraduates, Aimel and Ashlyn, joined…

end of 2023 news

what a whirlwind of a year! it's been a joy to see our lab grow and change over time. some highlights since spring of this year: May 2023: We completed our first series of CompNeuroEtho meetings with the Ahmed lab. We learned about new tools, centralized resources, and began troubleshooting behavioral/computational projects together. May 2023:…

end of 2022 news

whiteboard with drawings of marine animals

hello from the end of 2022, a big year of transitions and transformations. here are some highlights from the year: We published our manuscript on octopus steroid hormones. I am thankful to our fantastic collaborators in the Cologna Lab for their devotion to this work and for making this project so fun! [1] [2] [3]…

end of 2021 news

some lab-related announcements for the end of 2021--belated because the end of the year felt so weird. goodbye 2021, the year we normalized the pandemic. may 2022 bring gentleness. I was selected as an inaugural IMPACT Fellow by the National Postdoc Association for leadership advancement. [1] [2] I was selected to the Allen Institute's Next…