Amaris Guardiola joins the lab as an NIH SPIRE postdoctoral fellow.

Paper by Kearney, Wheeler, Parente, and Crews on CNS midline cell gene profiling was published in Developmental Biology with cover photo. Gene expression profiling of the developing Drosophila CNS midline cells

Lara Andrachuk, former undergraduate researcher, was accepted to Medical School at the University of Flinders, Adelaide, Australia.

Joe Kearney was awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship for 3 years

JaShaun Peele, former high-school RAP lab member, will be attending UNC Chapel Hill in Fall 2004.

Jenny Woodard, undergraduate researcher, graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in Biology.

The paper by Jiang and Crews on the Drosophila dysfusion gene (Mol. Cell. Biol. 23:5625-37, 2003) was selected as a Recommended Read by Faculty of 1000 (Thanks, Benny).

Lan Jiang, postdoctoral fellow, has been promoted to Research Associate.

Robert Franks, former Crews lab graduate student, will assume Assistant Professor position in the Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University.

Jenny Woodard, undergraduate researcher, presented her research at the Triangle Undergraduate Research Symposium at Duke University.