The McBride lab welcomes new senior research specialist Sherry Zhang, who will be splitting time with the Murthy Lab at PNI and two undergrad thesis students Catherine Zhao and Joy Kahugu!
Congratulations to Nylah on her new position – we will miss you!
Saying goodbye to Guyot Hall (McBride lab home for 10+years) with new group photos. Great photography @Jixuan Zheng.
Big welcome to new postdoc Evelyn Deveraux! Evelyn has a PhD in Environmental Chemistry and will be breaking new ground in our understanding of human odor using PTR-MS technology.
Lukas showing off our redesigned 2-photon microscope in the Bezos Center. Exciting!
Jessica’s review on the Sebaceous origins of human odor is now out in Current Biology! Jessica uses diverse literature sources spanning many decades to identify surprisingly clear and novel links between human odor, human skin biology, and human evolution.
Welcome new postdoc Anna Ryba! Anna completed her PhD in Vanessa Ruta’s lab at The Rockefeller studying the neural basis of intraspecific variation in courtship behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.
Big welcome to visiting Masters’ student Claire Damery who will be building genetic tools in the ancestral forest subspecies of Aedes aegypti with postdoc Lukas Weiss.
Big welcome to new EEB graduate student Jixuan Zheng.
Former MOL graduate student Elisha Adavi’s work on the molecular organization of the Aedes aegypti olfactory system posted to bioRxiv!