Summer is here, so the Slug Lab is running full speed.
We’re lucky to be joined once again by a really talented and dedicated team of students. Here’s most of us at a pizza party to inaugurate a summer of research. 
From far left we have
- Kayla Hall, joining us from Amherst for the summer
- Ushma Patel, who has graduated but will stay in the lab for the start of the summer (and then on to study biomedical illustration at UIC)
- Athira Jacob, lab alum now studying for her MCAT
- Derek Steck, lab alum who this summer will be in the UCLA summer research program this summer
- Steven Farrell, who has graduated but is also sticking with the lab for part of the summer while prepping for the MCAT
- Dr C-J and myself (end of the table)
- Tanya Rosiles, new lab member
- Everett Krause, new lab member
- Leticia Perez, lab alum sticking around for part of the summer before heading to UofI for veterinary medicine
- Melissa Nguyen, new lab member and post-bac student
And not yet in the photo but planning on joining when she returns from Ireland: Shannon Wilcox
I hope I don’t jinx anything when I say that we’re off to a great start, with a very successful round of behavioral experiments and RNA isolations. Looking forward to another great slug lab summer.