Schnitzler Lab News

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Diving into Discovery: Dr. Christine Schnitzler's Journey in Marine Biology, Regeneration and Evolution

From the Integrative and Comparative Biology blog post by Lisa Mesrop

Whitney Scientists Participate in Girls Can Empowerment Event

The Girls Can event aims to connect female high school students with accomplished women in a variety of professional fields, offering mentorship and support.

Schnitzler Lab Welcomes Martin Winn

Please welcome Martin Winn to the Whitney Lab! He joins the as an Undergraduate Researcher.

Ph.D. Defense Success for Justin Waletich!

Dr. Justin Waletich, a Ph.D. student from the Schnitzler lab, successfully defended his dissertation on November 5th. His work focused on describing the organization of stem cells in the colonial cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus.

Schnitzler Lab welcomes Kent Winata

Please welcome Kent Winata to the Whitney Laboratory! Kent joined the Schnitzler Lab as a Ph.D. student.

New genome reveals ancient toolkit

Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two colonial hydroids, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus and Hydractinia echinata. Brent Foster recently sat down with Dr. Christine Schnitzler of UF’s Whitney Laboratory to talk about her experience assembling these genomes.

Schnitzler Lab Welcomes Victoria Rodriguez

Vicky joined the Schnitzler Lab as a Postbaccalaureate Researcher. Vicky worked with the Schnitzler lab recently trying to identify transcription factors in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus.

Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus adult feeding polyp detached from the colony

Schnitzler Lab and collaborators publish the Hydractinia genome paper

This paper represents the result of a large-scale international collaborative effort to sequence the genomes of two species of the model hydroid, Hydractinia and perform comparative analysis to place these genomes in a comparative evolutionary framework with other cnidarians and other animals.

Schnitzler Lab Welcomes Dr. Zac Lane

Please welcome Dr. Zac Lane to the Whitney Laboratory! He recently joined the Schnitzler Lab as a Postdoctoral Associate.

Schnitzler Lab welcomes Nina Mangor

Please welcome Nina Mangor to the Whitney Lab! Nina joins the lab as a Laboratory Technician where her main tasks involve regular animal husbandry of the marine invertebrate organism of study known as Hydractinia.

Student Accepting award with faculty member

Dr. Barbara Anne Battelle Excellence in Scientific Communication Spring Awards

Congratulations to the spring semester recipients of the Dr. Barbara Anne Battelle Excellence in Scientific Communication Award - Justin Waletich, Schnitzler Lab Ph.D. Student, and Dr. Annika Jagels, Loesgen Lab past Postdoctoral Research Associate.

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Bailey-Niblett Family Endowment helps fund trip to RNA Symposium at UF Scripps Institute

This January the Bailey-Niblett Family Endowment helped fund a Whitney Postdoctoral Research Associate's trip to the symposium “RNA: From Biology to Drug Discovery” held at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology.