A very bittersweet farewell to our two departing undergrads, Giselle Uribe ‘20 and Haeun Jung ‘20! These two superstars have been a part of our lab family for almost their entire undergrad careers, and although we’re sad to see them go, we’re so proud of all their accomplishments.

Welcome to our newest grad students, Liyuan Zhu, Evan Underhill and Richard Thornton, as they kick off their PhD adventures with us!

Liyuan comes to us from the Chemistry department and will be working on developing the next generation of photoswitchable protein binders.…

On April 25th, Sarah McFann gave an oral presentation titled “Optogenetic dissection of signaling crosstalk in the early embryo” at The Allied Genetics Conference (ATGC)! Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference proceeded as scheduled (albeit virtually), which allowed Sarah to share…

Congratulations to Alex Goglia on his latest paper titled “A Live-Cell Screen for Altered Erk Dynamics Reveals Principles of Proliferative Control” published in Cell Systems!

The Toettchlab warmly welcomes our newest (and cutest) nanobody, Harrison! Although the world is going through a lot of craziness right now, we’re glad that Harry and mom, Agi, are doing well. Harry, we’re excited to meet you in person, and we can’t wait to see if you transform into an awesome scientist like your mama someday!

Congratulations to Elliot Dine, who has just returned from presenting his research at the Winter Q-Bio conference, held this year in Waikoloa Hawaii!

Elliot gave an oral presentation and a poster titled: A…

Congratulations to Sidu Jena, who recently presented his research at the joint Keystone Conference in Keystone, CO, on Jan 26-30th! The conference brought together two of Sidu's greatest loves: 

On October 28th, our former-undergrad-turned-technician-extraordinaire, Pavithran Ravindran, was invited to give a talk as part of the Trainee Seminar Series at the University of Pennsylvania! Pav was hosted by Dr. Arjun Raj from the departments of Bioengineering and Genetics. His talk was titled “Engineering novel combinatorial…

This summer, Sarah McFann spent 12 weeks interning with the quantitative team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the creative team at Gates Ventures.

During her internship, Sarah evaluated different mathematical models for how malnutrition leads to developmental…