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Highlights from Antarctica
Ryan and Jen deployed to Mcmurdo station Antarctica in November 2024 to study the extremely slow developing sea urchin, Sterechinus...
Jan 16


New publication in iScience
Our newest manuscript titled: Evolutionarily conserved Wnt/Sp5 signaling is critical for anterior-posterior axis patterning in sea urchin...
Mar 27, 2024


Congrats to Dr. Sujan Gautam on his PhD Defense!
Congratulations to Sujan for presenting his Dissertation seminar today titled "Studies on the role non-canonical Wnt/JNK Signaling in...
May 23, 2023


Jen Fenner Receives Funding From Texas EcoLabs Program
Postdoc Jen Fenner was awarded a grant for $8,620 from the Texas Ecolabs program to conduct a comparative investigation across...
Mar 10, 2023


Sujan to Postdoc at Johns Hopkins with Lamichhane Lab
What's Next for Sujan? "I am glad to share that I will be joining Lamichhane lab at Johns Hopkins University in June 2023 as a...
Nov 3, 2022


The Range Lab is Going to Antarctica!
Ryan Range and postdoc Jennifer Fenner, along with collaborates Ken Halaynch and Jake Warner from UNC Wilmington, were awarded a grant...
Nov 1, 2022


Cheikhouna "Che" Ka awarded NSF GRFP
Che was awarded a 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Che will start his Fellowship in the Fall (2021), which...
May 11, 2021


Sujan Gautam presented his research at Virtual SESDB Conference
Sujan Gautam gave a presentation with title "Sp5 acts downstream of Wnt8-Fzl5/8-JNK signaling during positioning of ANE in sea urchin...
May 22, 2020


Marina Martínez-Bartolomé's Ph.D. defense
We are happy to share that Marina Martínez-Bartolomé successful defended her dissertation titled "Functional study of the Wnt signaling...
May 22, 2020


Welcome to our new lab member, Jennifer Fenner!
We welcome Jennifer Fenner, who recently joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Jennifer Fenner did her Ph.D in Brian Counterman's...
Jan 9, 2020


New article in Development: A biphasic role of non-canonical Wnt16 signaling
We are really excited to share our new article recently published in Development where we studied the function of Wnt16-Fzl1/2/7...
Jan 9, 2020


Book Chapter on Whole mount in situ hybridization technique in Methods in Cell Biology published!
"Chapter 6 - Whole mount in situ hybridization techniques for analysis of the spatial distribution of mRNAs in sea urchin embryos and...
Jul 20, 2019
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