Fall 2024: The Heckscher lab (with help from the Carrillo Lab) participates in the South Side Science Festival with a demo called Locomotion in Larva Land. The day-long Festival for adults, families, and school-age children receives over 4500 visitors!
Summer 2024: Ellen is named a Chicago Fellow through the BSD’s competitive postdoctoral fellowship program!
Summer 2024: Brett Kitazono, spends a few months in the lab as a UChicago PREP Scholar.
Summer 2024: Ellie is a Lecturer/Lab Coordinator for Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior at CSHL. Sam TA’s.
Summer 2023: Oscar Hernandez from Cal State Fullerton (MGCB REU program) and Michayla Hatcher from UChicago Laboratory School (Summer Link program) perform summer research in the lab.
Summer 2023: Ellie is a Lecturer/Lab Coordinator for Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior at CSHL.
Winter 2023: Ellie shares how she found her love for developmental and evolutionary biology in a podcast episode! [Youtube, Spotify]
Fall 2022: Ellie is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! The lab celebrates!
Fall 2022: Sam is appointed to the Genetic Mechanisms & Evolution Training Grant. Zarion is re-appointed to the Developmental Biology training grant.
Summer 2022: Ellie is the Instructor/Course Director for Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior at CSHL. Jake and Deeptha are TAs.
Summer 2022: Ellie is the Instructor for the UCSB KITP QBio summer research course: Neurophysics of Motion. Marie TAs.
Spring 2022: Julia wins the CMB graduate program award for best PhD thesis!
Spring 2022: Jake is awarded an NIH NRSA F31 graduate fellowship!
Spring 2022: The blogpost “Snapshots in Neuroscience” is published about Zarion’s eNeuro paper
Fall 2021: Julia gets an honorable mention for the Elkins Award (best thesis) at the Neurobiology of Drosophila, CSHL meeting
Fall 2021: Zarion is appointed to the Developmental Biology Training Grant.
Spring 2021: Marie and her collaborator Maxime Lehman win the best presentation prize at the 2021 CNRS-Chicago symposium.
Winter 2021: Dr. Julia Meng, the first Heckscher Lab graduate student, successfully defends her thesis!
Winter 2021: Marie is awarded an NIH NRSA F31 graduate fellowship.
Fall 2020: Jake is appointed to the Developmental Biology Training Grant for a second year.
Fall 2019: Jake is appointed to the Developmental Biology Training Grant.
Summer 2019: Ellie is the Instructor/Course Director for Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior at CSHL. Marie and Yi-wen are TAs.
Spring 2019: Marie gets an honorable mention for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Fall 2018: Heckscher Lab R01 officially begins!
Fall 2018: Marie is awarded the Pritzker Neurobiology Graduate Fellowship at UChicago.
Summer 2018: Ellie is the Instructor/Course Director for Drosophila Neurobiology: Gene, Circuits & Behavior at CSHL. Julia is a TA.
Fall 2018: Julia is re-selected for the MCB Training Grant.
Spring 2018: Julia is awarded an NSF GRFP graduate fellowship!
Fall 2017: Julia is selected for the Molecular and Cell Biology Training Grant.
Summer 2017: Machiah Gill, a University of Miami undergraduate, visits to do a summer project on motor neuron formation. Luis X de Pablo, a UChicago Laboratory School Science Summer Link student, also spends time in the lab.
Spring 2017: Ellie is featured in The Atlantic article “Fly larvae help scientists understand and treat diseases. An Object Lesson”.
Fall 2015: Heckscher Lab opens in CLSC 915!