Let’s welcome Taylor Harrison to the lab! She earned her B.S. in Biology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She’s joining the lab to earn a Master’s degree in biology from UNF. She will be studying some really cool genes that might provide some very important insight into how segmentation evolved.
The whole gang is here!! New members include Tatiana Baia, Kennedi Light, and REU student Logan Scott. We are all fully vaccinated, which opens up a lot of possibilities that would otherwise be difficult…..like this cool pic that we took outside of the Biology building!! From left to right: Nichole, …
Mandy produced a very cool image of a tardigrade embryo on our confocal microscope, just using autofluorescence. This tiny embryo is only 50 microns in length. The head is at the top and it’s facing to the right. It’s curled up into a “C” shape. You can see the little …
Like most research labs, the Smith lab is closed for the foreseeable future, due to the pandemic. However, that doesn’t mean that the research stops! We are very busy working on manuscripts and bioinformatics studies from our homes. Here is a cool pic of Mandy’s home lab bench. She is …
