Understanding the Arms Race of Retrotransposons and Germ Cells
Gallery
Images from Bortvin lab history in approximate reverse chronological order:
Alex at the 82 Symposium for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Leaving the mark on Science.Marla Tharp presenting at the Mid-Atlantic SDB regional meeting (UMBC, May 20, 2017)
A Franco - Italian awesomeness A birthday cake for Rejeanne Justee! Rejeanne has worked at Carnegie Embryology with outstanding Donald Brown (on the background), Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado and Joe Gall. Marla and Alex represented the lab at March for Science in Washington D.C. When a picture is worth a thousand words… Celebrating Alex’ 50th birthday Meiosis Holliday humor Chiara and Marla get along famously An Italian postdoc Chiara De Luca has joined the lab in 2016 and hit the right note with all of us.
Marla Tharp and Safia Malki and their awesome posters.Is Marla Tharp navigating a submarine? Nope, she’s taking EM images of mouse ovaries.
Marla Tharp is our latest talented graduate student. Celebrating Valeriya’s Ph.D. Vaaleriya enjoys lab-themed fashion at her thesis defense party. Her twin sister is happy to not be receiving the same precious pair of running shorts When funds are tight, Alex becomes the One Who Knocks… Safia and Alex celebrate publishing their L1 oocyte story. Finally! Lab memorabilia gifts for Pavol Genzor Pavol Genzor, PhD! We did tell you that Pavol is a very likable guy, didn’t we? Last lab meeting with Pavol Genzor Lab meeting. Julio with his thesis printed. A very exciting moment for Julio Castañeda! Skeptical Julio Castañeda and Alan Spradling listen to Alex’ fantasies at 2014 Germ cell meeting A birthday cake for Julio Castañeda Birthday cakes. Rejeanne Justee (our lab tech) and Ivana Celic (research scientist). Pavol runs the show as usual. We work with mice. Once in a while you come across a cute coat color mutant like this one. Lab meeting and a birthday celebration Lab lunch. Rare image of Shreyas Jadhav, a short term postdoc.
Hunter College graduate, Valeriya Gaysinskaya. Godfried distracts himself while listening to Radiohead. Or the other way around. An extremely likable and friendly graduate student Pavol Genzor comes from Slovakia by way of Pennsylvania.
Godfried van der Heijden, Ina Soh, Juio Castañeda, Safia Malki and Alex around the time of Ina Soh’s graduation in 2008.
Our Dutch master of all things meiosis, Godfried van der Heijden. A UC Davis graduate, Julio Castañeda was the first graduate student to reach the finish line. Safia Malki leaves France to join the lab in 2006. A Princeton graduate, Tara Hardiman was our first lab tech since the very beginning. Lab Mascot - Tanuki - Japanese raccoon dog, the species known for their prominent male germ cell-harboring organs. Brought from Japan by Godfried van der Heijden.
Office. With a balcony! Moving into Andy Fire’s lab space in the old Embryology building in 2004. This is where RNAi was discovered just 6 years earlier. New Carnegie Embryology building under construction. Check out that copper roof! This is Carnegie Embryology building at 115 University Parkway where Bortvin lab started in 2004 and remained for almost a year until the completion of the new Maxine Singer building just down the road August 2004… Full of hope, Alex leaves David Page’s group at the Whitehead Institute for Carnegie Embryology in Baltimore
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