Amarachi wins a presentation award!!
Amarachi won second place at this year’s REU poster session. This entitles her to represent our REU program in the Biology Department at UNF at a scientific conference. Way to go, Amarachi!!
Tardi-lab, Summer 2022
Here we go again!! This is the time of the year when the lab is busiest, and we are going to be very busy this summer. We have lab tech Mandy, Undergrad students Amarachi, Kennedi, and Tanashia, Master’s students Raul and Taylor, and Ph.D. student (Harvard) Marc Mapalo all busy …
Amarachi Nwawueze joins the tardi-lab for the summer!
We would like to welcome Amarachi Nwawueze, an undergrad from Northern Illinois University, for a summer research internship through our NSF-sponsored REU program. Welcome, Amarachi!!
Mandy graduates with Honors!!
Mandy has graduated with Honors from UNF as maybe the most accomplished undergraduate researcher ever. She has co-authored three great papers since joining the tardi-team and has won nearly every research award possible. She certainly deserved UNF’s prestigious Undergraduate of the Year Award that she won. Way to go, Mandy!!
Taneshia wins a presentation award!!
Taneshia presented a poster at this year’s UNF SOARS detailing her studies of the very important gene twist, which regulates muscle development in many animals. She was awarded a Project of Merit Award. Way to go, Taneshia!!
Mandy wins Undergraduate Researcher of the Year!!
Mandy Game completes her exceptional record of awards by winning UNF’s Undergraduate Research of the Year Award. Amazing!! https://unfsoars.domains.unf.edu/2022/undergraduate-researcher-of-the-year/
Tardi-lab conquers SICB 2022 in Phoenix, AZ!
We had six presentations at the 2022 Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Meeting! Four students presented posters based on their 2022 summer research internships in the lab investigating potential gut-patterning mechanisms in tardigrades. 1.) Logan, a student that visited our lab from Mercer University, presented results of her study …
Spotlight on Kennedi by the UNF Newsroom!
The UNF Newsroom spotlighted the Smith Lab’s very own Kennedi Light! Congrats, Kennedi!! Here’s the link to the story. https://www.unf.edu/newsroom/2022/01/Kennedi-Light-student-spotlight.html
