HUGE congratulations to Maia Weintraub for winning gold at the Olympics with the women’s foil team! She took a gap year from her undergrad studies to focus on training, as well as assisting with research in the lab. Amazing job, Maia!!
Big welcome to research specialist Nylah Edwards, who just completed her BA at Northern Arizona University.
Hillery’s paper on the evolution of hatching behavior in Aedes aegypti received the Presidential Award from the American Society of Naturalists. This award is given by the ASN President to one paper published in The American Naturalist each year. Check out the announcement on the ASN website. And congrats to all co-authors!
Congratulations also to postdoc Lukas Weiss, Nathalie’s in-lab mentor, who received an inaugural Exemplar Mentor Award from the McGraw Center after being nominated by Nathalie. These new awards recognize the time and energy postdocs and graduate students invest in mentoring early career researchers at Princeton. Congratulations and a big thank you to Lukas!
Congratulations to undergraduate thesis student Nathalie Verlinde for winning a Global Sachs Scholariship and the Sigma Xi Book Award for outstanding thesis. We wish Nathalie the best in her future adventures!
Check out this PBS video on Noah’s work on why, where, and when Aedes aegypti mosquitoes evolved to specialize in biting humans! (Noah was a postdoc in the lab and is now an Assistant Professor at UCSD)
Lab bonding at the Amazing Escape Room!
Huge congratulations to Yuki Haba for successfully defending his thesis! Here he is holding a 3D printed model of his PCA of genetic variation across global samples of Culex pipiens designed by recent and constructed by McBride lab alumna Jessica Zung. And stay tuned for the published version as part of the Culex pipiens Population Genomics project flagship paper…
Lindy was honored to be one of 4 Princeton faculty members to receive the graduate mentoring award this year at the Graduate Hooding Ceremony. No doubt most of it has to do with the stellar former and current grad students in the lab – who have been a joy to mentor!
Congratulations to Elisha Adaui for successfully defending his thesis on the olfactory receptor code of Aedes aegypti. Preprint coming soon!