Lanzendorf hair prize 2018: Melissa's pineapple
The winner of the John J. Lanzendorf Hair Prize for 2018 is Melissa Kenny, for her paper: Kenny, M.C.*, M.N. Giarra*, E. Granata*, J.J....
Hodjat's new paper in Scientific Reports
Our new paper "Functional compartmentalization in the hemocoel of insects” was published today by the journal Scientific Reports (which...
Mariam at NIST for a summer internship
Congratulations to lab undergrad Mariam Hasan, who was accepted into a NIST internship today! Mariam will be doing research under David...
Mela at Stanford as a summer research scholar
Congratulations to Mela Coffey, who was accepted into the SURF program at Stanford this summer! (SURF stands for “Summer Undergraduate...
Mela's account of research in the Australian rainforest
Since the fall of 2017, I have been helping Michelle Graham, a Ph.D. candidate in the Socha Lab at Virginia Tech, conducting research on...
Khaled wins imaging prize at SICB 2019
Congratulations to Khaled Adjerid, who won the he Ralph and Mildred Buchsbaum Prize for Excellence in Photomicrography, B/W Division....
Melissa competes in the DCB student award session
Today Melissa Kenny presented her talk "Effects of environmental temperature on viscosity of Manduca sexta hemolymph" in the Division of...
Talia awarded a VSGC research fellowship
Congrats to Ph.D. student Talia Weiss, who was selected as a VSGC Graduate Research Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Virginia...
Joshua Pulliam will be a new Ph.D. student
We're happy to announce that Joshua Pulliam will be joining the lab as a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Mechanics program, starting in...
New paper on mosquitoes in Scientific Reports
Today our paper on how mosquitoes drink was published in Scientific Reports. This paper was long in the making, with data collected by...