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 …

Tardi-lab, Summer 2021

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: Taneshia, …

Cool tardigrade embryo

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 …