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That's Doctor Aidan Huene to you.

12/3/2021

 
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Congratulations to Aidan Huene on successfully defending her thesis today! She gave a beautiful presentation that showcased her outstanding work on the Hydractinia allorecognition complex and the molecular evolution of Alr2. 

We are all so proud of you!

Congrats to Steve Sanders on his promotion to Faculty!

12/16/2019

 
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Aidan Huene passes her comps!

6/30/2017

 
After months of hard work, second year graduate student Aidan Huene passed her comprehensive exam this morning. 

Now she's off to the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution meeting in Austin Texas. Seek out her poster if you want to hear about her exciting work on, well, the molecular biology and evolution of Hydractinia allorecognition proteins. 

Congratulations, Aidan!
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Aidan Huene and her celebratory fro-yo.

Graduate student Aidan Huene joins the lab!

2/12/2016

 
We are happy to welcome Aidan Huene into the lab! Aidan is a first year graduate student in the ISB program. She will be working out the mechanisms by which the Alr1/2 proteins are able to engage in isoform-specific homophilic binding... and probably some other exciting things too!
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Bringin' hydroids to the people

11/22/2015

 
Pitt Mobile Science Lab
The Pitt Mobile Science Lab (above) set up in the midts of tailgating football fans prior to the Pitt-Louisville game at Heinz Field on November 21. (Note: this image is actually from our last program -- Matt forgot to take a picture of the truck this year!)
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Drake Ma showing Hydractinia to a young football fan.
Our second Pitt Mobile Science Lab tailgate program was a success! This year's program focused on animal diversity, with Hydractinia as an example of a type of organism that most people probably don't immediately think of when asked to think of an animal. More than 180 football fans ranging from 3 to 80 years old (Note: we only verified the younger limit) came onto the truck to learn what makes Hydractinia an animal. They fed live colonies, observed different stages of their life cycle, touched them to see how they would respond to different stimuli.

Can't wait for next year!
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