Last night was the last trivia night in which Penny and Jenn could participate together. So, we knew it had to be bigly…
And it was! We won third place! Wohooo!
Penny and Jenn showing off their prize (gift card for Cypress):
The rest of the team:
Lab goings on, 8/16
We have a new website!
Pedro rightfully argued that we needed a website that “doesn’t look like it’s from the 1980s”. Quite so. Thanks for bringing us up to the 21st century Pedro, the new site is absolutely beautiful.
In thanks, here’s a pretty picture of snowflake yeast.
Jenn defended her thesis!
Jennifer Pentz, the first Ratcliff lab student, defended her thesis today. Her thesis was titled “Exploring the ecological and evolutionary consequences of clonal and aggregative development during the transition to multicellularity.”
It was pretty great! Jenn did an incredible job in her PhD, authoring 8 papers (with one in review and one in prep). Jenn was a touchstone for the lab- a consistently upbeat and collaborative soul who always made the projects she joined better. She has left an enduring mark on the lab, seeding its cultural bedrock with precisely the traits we need in academia: compassion, thoughtfulness, helpfulness, and enthusiasm for science. Jenn is off to do a postdoc in Sweden under Peter Lind and will be greatly missed.
Jordan Gulli defended her thesis!
Jordan Gulli, a member of the Rosenzweig lab who used to be in the Ratcliff lab, defended today! Jordan was an incredibly self-driven scientist, who found her path from basic evolutionary biology to applied industry-related research (her long-stated goal). She will start a job at New England BioLabs this fall. Congrats on a very nice thesis Jordan, and best luck at NEB!
