News & Announcements Archive
Christina McNerney and Brian Guy passed their graduate oral exams! They are officially grad students now! Watch out!
August 30, 2019
Kasia Hussey has been promoted to the position of Excited Older Student! Congrats Kasia! Have a day!
July 27, 2019
We enjoyed having visiting student/scientist Trirupa Chakraborty in the lab this summer!
July 26, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Caity Anderson for defending her thesis and receiving her PhD!!!!!!
July 26, 2019
Liz, Luke, Mini, and Bob gave great talks at the Mid Atlantic Pairing Meeting in Philly!
July 13, 2019
Kiara and Bob joined Sean Raspet with our first adventure in organoid art at the Empty Gallery in Hong Kong!
June 30, 2019
We are super excited to welcome Brian Guy and Christina McNerney to the Johnston lab as new graduate students!
May 30, 2019
Congrats to Mini Yuan who graduated from JHU and will join the lab as a tech! Mini, you rock!
May 29, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Kiara Eldred for defending her thesis and receiving her PhD!!!!!!
May 20, 2019
We welcome Raphi Chernoff, Joyce Wang, and Grace Gu, three new undergrads, to the lab!!!
April 30, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Kayla Viets for defending her thesis and receiving her PhD!!!!!!
March 11, 2019
Aki won the ABRCMS 2018 Presentation Award for his awesome poster!!
November 19, 2018
We welcome Tim Nickels for rotation 2!
November 4, 2018
Kayla’s paper is on BioRxiv!
October 26, 2018
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/10/25/445627
Kiara’s paper is getting a bit of interest world wide!
October 18, 2018
https://www.altmetric.com/details/49530012
The first human paper is out! Congrats to Kiara and all the authors!
October 18, 2018
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6411/eaau6348
Check out Kiara’s awesome new paper on BioRxiv!
July 2, 2018
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/30/359950
Congrats to Annie Cho, Johnston lab undergrad alum, who will be attending Hopkins for med school in the Fall!
April 30, 2018
We welcome, Luke Voortman, who will be doing his third rotation with the Johnston lab!
January 15, 2018
Congrats to Kayla, Alexandra, and Liz who will be giving talks at the 2018 fly meeting!!
January 15, 2018
The natural variation paper is out in eLIFE – https://elifesciences.org/articles/29593 – Congrats to Caity and all the authors!
December 18, 2017
Congrats to Liz for passing her GBO!
November 30, 2017
Congrats to Kasia for passing her GBO!
November 9, 2017
We welcome Kevin Rhine to the lab for his second rotation!
November 2, 2017
Congrats to Alexandra, Kayla, Chaim, Mini, Jin, and Linda for great talks at the Pairing Hoedown at Bowdoin College!
November 2, 2017
Congratulations to Chaim Chernoff who was named as a Hanigan Fellow as part of his Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
October 14, 2017
We welcome Amanda Ray to the lab for her first rotation!
September 5, 2017
Congrats to Jin Lu who received a PURA fellowship!
May 16, 2017
We welcome Linda Krasniewski, a sophomore, to the lab!
April 29, 2017
Congrats to Cyrus Zhou, former Johnston lab undergrad, who will be entering the MD/PhD at Washington University in St. Louis!
April 29, 2017
Congrats to Heather on her marriage to Shane!
March 17, 2017
Check out Jenny’s paper in Development! We got the cover!
February 28, 2017
Cover Article
We welcome Jin and Mohika, new undergrads, to the lab!
January 24, 2017
We welcome Liz Urban, a rotation student, to the lab!
January 23, 2017
Happy New Year! Jenny’s paper was accepted at Development!
January 2, 2017
Cyrus got into an MD/PhD program – Congrats Cyrus!
December 16, 2016
Congrats to Sang who go into Med School!
November 22, 2016
Caity gave an awesome talk at the 2016 CMDB retreat!
October 24, 2016
Kayla won a best poster award at the 2016 CMDB retreat!
October 24, 2016
Congratulations to Kayla and Kiara on their awesome review in Trends in Genetics. We got the cover!
October 1, 2016
Congrats to Kayla who got an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship!
September 16, 2016
We partied with Cyrus on his last day. We wish him good luck during his Fulbright fellowship in Canada!
September 1, 2016
Bob presented Caity’s story on natural variation in color perception at the Visual Systems Development Gordon Conference
August 11, 2016
We welcome Jee Min Kim, a rotation student, to the lab!
August 8, 2016
The BEAF paper got the cover of Development
July 1, 2016