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Caroline is a first year Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD student joining the lab for a rotation this fall. Welcome to the lab Caroline!
We celebrated the lab's first anniversary at lab meeting today! We've already grown so much this year, and look forward to many discoveries in the future!  We celebrated the wonderful research done by the lab's three undergraduate students this summer. Hunter, Angel, and Zarah each shared their research projects with the lab. We look forward to seeing more outstanding work from them in the future!  Three new undergraduate researchers from Stony Brook University join the lab this summer. Welcome Angel, Hunter, and Zarah!
A new preprint from Jonathan's postdoc work is now on bioRxiv. New insights into how ribosomal DNA copy number expansion activity is regulated in germ cells. We find that the activity of insulin signaling, influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, represses germline rDNA maintenance. The lab welcomes our new research technician, Jackson Chen! Jackson joins us after recently completing his BS from Stony Brook University, where he worked in the lab of Dr. Michael Frohman. Jackson is working to understand the molecular sensors that recognize if cells have enough rDNA copies or not. 
Jackson Chen The most recent paper from Jonathan's postdoc is now published in PNAS! This study finds that asymmetric division of germline stem cells is essential for their ability to restore rDNA copy number, suggesting rDNA maintenance is a major reason why these cells divide asymmetrically.  Source: Nelson et al., PNAS, 2023 Stony Brook undergraduate researchers Abijot and Tomasz join the lab! They are working to identify genes that regulate germline rDNA copy number maintenance activity.
The Nelson Lab is now open in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and the Center for Developmental Genetics at Stony Brook University!  |
