Welcome back for Spring Term, the Wessel lab has had an exciting start to the academic year full of expanding research and group size! Undergraduates Ellie Kim and El Hebert both are continuing their prior research with El working towards completing an undergraduate thesis focusing on sea urchin micro-spines. First year MCB Graduate Student, Chloe Lindberg joined the group for her second rotation and will be giving her rotation talk on March 1st if you want to hear more about what she’s been up to. Another addition to our group is masters student Sydney Roman who began her two year thesis earlier this fall. The lab attended DBSUMI 2023 at MBL in Woods Hole, with presentations from Gary Wessel and Cosmo Pipelow and numerous posters. Over the holiday lab members got together to celebrate Haruka Suzuki’s birthday with ice skating at the downtown rink. In aquarium news we are in the process of a state of the art renovation which will greatly improve the lives of our resident sea stars and urchins and provide space for our newly successful juvenile rearing program. We look forward to the big change and to the warming spring weather, check back in Summer 2024 for updates!
