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November 19, 2018
Aki won the ABRCMS 2018 Presentation Award for his awesome poster!!
October 26, 2018
Kayla’s paper is on BioRxiv!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/10/25/445627
October 18, 2018
Kiara’s paper is getting a bit of interest world wide!

https://www.altmetric.com/details/49530012
The first human paper is out! Congrats to Kiara and all the authors!

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6411/eaau6348
August 20, 2018
We welcome Joanne Taylor Dekay, a new rotation student, to the lab!!!!
August 17, 2018
We welcome Aki Sogunro, a new research assistant, to the Johnston lab!
July 31, 2018
Good luck to India Reiss as she heads off to grad school at WUSTL!!!!!
July 2, 2018
Check out Kiara’s awesome new paper on BioRxiv!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/30/359950
June 13, 2018
Luke Voortman, a new grad student, joins the Johnston lab!
May 2, 2018
Congrats to Adrienne Chen and Jeong Han who received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship!!
April 30, 2018
Congrats to Annie Cho, Johnston lab undergrad alum, who will be attending Hopkins for med school in the Fall!
April 19, 2018
Congrats to Caity Anderson who won the 2018 Research Photo Contest at JHU!
Alexandra, Kayla, and Liz gave awesome talks at the 2018 Drosophila Conference!
April 3, 2018
Congratulations to Kasia and India for receiving NSF pre-doctoral fellowships!
March 7, 2018
We welcome Adrienne Chen, a freshmen, to the Johnston lab!! Welcome to team InterCom!
Congrats to Kayla Viets, Cyrus Zhou, and the Johnston lab for recent collaborative publications in Development (de Navas et al., 2018) and Genes and Development (Datta et al., 2018)!
January 15, 2018
We welcome, Luke Voortman, who will be doing his third rotation with the Johnston lab!
Congrats to Kayla, Alexandra, and Liz who will be giving talks at the 2018 fly meeting!!
December 18, 2017
The natural variation paper is out in eLIFE – https://elifesciences.org/articles/29593 – Congrats to Caity and all the authors!
November 30, 2017
Congrats to Liz for passing her GBO!
November 9, 2017
Congrats to Kasia for passing her GBO!
November 2, 2017
We welcome Kevin Rhine to the lab for his second rotation!
We welcome Maha Sarfraz and Jeong Han, two new freshmen, to the Johnston lab!
Congrats to Alexandra, Kayla, Chaim, Mini, Jin, and Linda for great talks at the Pairing Hoedown at Bowdoin College!
October 14, 2017
Congratulations to Chaim Chernoff who was named as a Hanigan Fellow as part of his Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
September 5, 2017
We welcome Amanda Ray to the lab for her first rotation!
July 13, 2017
Congrats to Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini who got an NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellowship!
May 26, 2017
We welcome Kasia Hussey and Liz Urban, new grad students, to the lab!!
May 16, 2017
The Johnston lab received a March of Dimes Research Grant. Special thanks to Kayla Viets for all her hard work on this grant!
Congrats to Jin Lu who received a PURA fellowship!
Congratulations to Mohika Nagpal who received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship!
May 4, 2017
Congratulations to Sarah Hadyniak who won the Victor Corces Teaching Award!
April 29, 2017
We welcome Linda Krasniewski, a sophomore, to the lab!
Congrats to Cyrus Zhou, former Johnston lab undergrad, who will be entering the MD/PhD at Washington University in St. Louis!
A belated welcome to Xiuqi Chen and Ariel Parker, two rotation students, to the lab!
March 17, 2017
Congrats to Heather on her marriage to Shane!
February 28, 2017
Check out Jenny’s paper in Development! We got the cover!

Cover Article
January 24, 2017
We welcome Jin and Mohika, new undergrads, to the lab!
January 23, 2017
We welcome Liz Urban, a rotation student, to the lab!
January 2, 2017
Happy New Year! Jenny’s paper was accepted at Development!
December 16, 2016
Cyrus got into an MD/PhD program – Congrats Cyrus!
November 22, 2016
Congrats to Sang who go into Med School!
November 15, 2016
We welcome Kasia Krauss and Dan Konzman, two rotation students, to the lab!
October 24, 2016
Caity gave an awesome talk at the 2016 CMDB retreat!
Kayla won a best poster award at the 2016 CMDB retreat!
October 1, 2016
Congratulations to Kayla and Kiara on their awesome review in Trends in Genetics. We got the cover!
September 16, 2016
Congrats to Kayla who got an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship!
September 1, 2016
We partied with Cyrus on his last day. We wish him good luck during his Fulbright fellowship in Canada!
August 11, 2016
Bob presented Caity’s story on natural variation in color perception at the Visual Systems Development Gordon Conference
August 8, 2016
We welcome Jee Min Kim, a rotation student, to the lab!
July 17, 2016
Caity gave a great talk at the Allied Genetics Conference 2016!
July 6, 2016
Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini has joined the lab as the first post-doc!
July 1, 2016
The BEAF paper got the cover of Development
June 22, 2016
Mini Yuan, Ank Agarwal, and Chaim Chernoff were awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships!
June 2, 2016
We hosted the 1st Annual Mid-Atlantic Chromosomal Pairing Conference
May 11, 2016
1st Johnston lab paper accepted at Development!!
May 10, 2016
Caity will be giving a talk at the TAGC/fly meeting!
May 5, 2016
Awesome news, Sarah Hadyniak has joined the lab!
April 14, 2016
Cyrus wins the Fulbright Award and the William McElroy Prize. Congrats!
March 18, 2016
We welcome Sarah Hadyniak and Nathan Roach, new rotation students, to the lab!
March 10, 2016
We welcome Heather Yerecic, a new research assistant, to the lab!
January 18, 2016
We welcome Andrew Gale, a new rotation student, to the lab
December 18, 2015
We celebrated Christmas Star Wars-style at the department holiday party
December 12, 2015
The annual Johnston lab Christmas party was a blast!
November 4, 2015
Sang Tran was awarded a 2015-16 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from JHU
November 2, 2015
We welcome Jessie Kirshner, a new rotation student, to the lab
October 24, 2015
Team Awesome (Annie, Cyrus, India), Caity, Kayla, and Kiara gave great talks at the 2015 Northeast Regional Drosophila Chromosome Pairing Meeting
October 19, 2015
Congratulations to Kiara Eldred for winning a poster award at the 2015 departmental retreat!
September 4, 2015
We welcome German Uritskiy and Luke Shumway, new rotation students, to the lab
August 4, 2015
Kiara Eldred has been awarded a 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study

https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-s-expanded-gilliam-program-awards-30-fellowships
July 31, 2015
The Johnston lab had a great time at Paint Nite!
July 30, 2015
Congrats to Kiara, Kayla, and Caity, who did great jobs at their first thesis committee meetings!
July 15, 2015
The Johnston lab was awarded an NIH R01 grant to study stochastic expression decisions in the fly eye
June 24, 2015
India Reiss was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship from JHU
May 28, 2015
Our lab is the cover story for the Johns Hopkins Arts and Sciences Magazine Spring 2015 issue

Check out the story here: http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/v12n2/the-eyes-have-it/