Summer has been a busy time in the Mosca Lab! We started in June with three (!) summer students. Katie Helf joined us as a member of the Jefferson Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) from Rowan University. She worked to optimize new protocols for expansion microscopy to study active zone formation. Megan Furch joined us from Haverford College and spent 8 weeks working to define new genes involved in synaptic development in the olfactory system and to test some new tools we’ve built for synapse labeling. Finally, Ben Greer joined us as a high school student and cloned all the things! It was an amazing summer having these three scholars to join us.
Katie Helf, Summer 2019
Ben Greer, Summer 2019
Megan Furch, Summer 2019
We braved the 98 degree Philadelphia heat to get our annual summer picture of the entire lab! Look at those smiling faces and those keen minds! 10 people strong this summer!