The Pacific Ocean is where I fell in love with biological research, so it seems only fitting that the next step is to return to the coast. A little further south this time though! Starting September 2020, I will take on a new postdoc position in the lab of Deirdre Lyons at the Scripps Institution…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded 11 new Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools (EDGE) research grants. EDGE is designed to improve our understanding of how organisms are built by providing funding for the development functional genomic tools. These funds have been awarded to a diversity of organisms, from plants and fungi, to voles and lizards, and not…

I am extremely grateful to once again be spending my summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory as a Whitman Center Early Career Research Fellow. If you have visited http://www.mbl.edu you may have noticed that my photo was used to illustrate an MBL blog post about this summer’s group of Whitman Fellows! Take a look here to…

Whitman Center Early Career Investigator Award I will be spending the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, USA as a recipient of a Whitman Center Early Career Investigator Award. Thank you to the MBL for this exciting opportunity! More information here and here. You can read more about my summer research at the…

Current Position Maryna is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Jonathan Henry in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a PhD in Biology, Neotropical Environment Option, from the Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. She was supervised by Ehab Abouheif (McGill) and Rachel…