Announcements Archive
July 9-15, 2020 Brian, Christina, Kasia, Liz, Luke, Sarah and Yang gave great talks at the SDB 79th Annual Meeting!
Sept 1, 2019 We welcome Simon Zhang, a new rotation student, to our lab!
Aug 30, 2019 Christina McNerney and Brian Guy passed their graduate oral exams! They are officially grad students now! Watch out!
Aug 30, 2019 Sarah Hadyniak was awarded an NRSA predoctoral fellowship! Congratulations Sarah!
Jul 27, 2019 Kasia Hussey has been promoted to the position of Excited Older Student! Congrats Kasia! Have a day!
Jul 26, 2019 We enjoyed having visiting student/scientist Trirupa Chakraborty in the lab this summer!
Jul 26, 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Caity Anderson for defending her thesis and receiving her PhD!
Jul 13, 2019 Liz, Luke, Mini, and Bob gave great talks at the Mid Atlantic Pairing Meeting in Philly!
Jun 30, 2019 Kiara and Bob joined Sean Raspet with our first adventure in organoid art at the Empty Gallery in Hong Kong!
May 30, 2019 We are super excited to welcome Brian Guy and Christina McNerney to the Johnston lab as new graduate students!
May 29, 2019 Congrats to Mini Yuan who graduated from JHU and will join the lab as a tech! Mini, you rock!
May 20, 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Kiara Eldred for defending her thesis and receiving her PhD!!!
Apr 30, 2019 We welcome Raphi Chernoff, Joyce Wang, and Grace Gu, three new undergrads, to the lab!
Apr 19, 2019 Congrats to Chaim Chernoff who for receiving the McElroy Award for meritorious undergraduate research in biology. Chaim will be pursuing his PhD at Harvard in the fall!
Apr 4, 2019 We welcome Brian Guy, a new rotation student, to the lab! Go grow those RGCs!
Mar 25, 2019 Good news! The Johnston lab received funding from the BrightFocus Foundation!
Mar 11, 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Kayla Viets for defending her thesis and receiving her PhD!!!
Feb 22, 2019 Congrats to Kiara who won the 2019 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award!!!
Jan 21, 2019 We welcome Christina “Mac” McNerney, a new rotation student to the lab!
Dec 2, 2018 Liz’s review on noisy gene expression is out in Frontiers in Genetics!
Nov 19, 2018 Aki won the ABRCMS 2018 Presentation Award for his awesome poster!
Nov 4, 2018 We welcome Tim Nickels for rotation 2!
Oct 26, 2018 Kayla’s paper is on BioRxiv!
Oct 18, 2018 Kiara’s paper is getting a bit of interest world wide!
Oct 18, 2018 The first human paper is out! Congrats to Kiara and all the authors!
Aug 20, 2018 We welcome Joanne Taylor Dekay, a new rotation student, to the lab!
Aug 17, 2018 We welcome Aki Sogunro, a new research assistant, to the Johnston lab!
Jul 31, 2018 Good luck to India Reiss as she heads off to grad school at WUSTL!
Jul 2, 2018 Check out Kiara’s awesome new paper on BioRxiv!
Jun 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!
Apr 30, 2018 Congrats to Annie Cho, Johnston lab undergrad alum, who will be attending Hopkins for med school in the Fall!
Apr 19, 2018 Congrats to Caity Anderson who won the 2018 Research Photo Contest at JHU!
Apr 3, 2018 Congratulations to Kasia and India for receiving NSF pre-doctoral fellowships!
Mar 7, 2018 We welcome Adrienne Chen, a freshmen, to the Johnston lab!! Welcome to team InterCom!
Mar 7, 2018 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)!
Jan 15, 2018 We welcome, Luke Voortman, who will be doing his third rotation with the Johnston lab!
Dec 18, 2017 The natural variation paper is out in eLIFE – https://elifesciences.org/articles/29593 – Congrats to Caity and all the authors!
Nov 30, 2017 Congrats to Liz for passing her GBO!
Nov 9, 2017 Congrats to Kasia for passing her GBO!
Nov 2, 2017 We welcome Kevin Rhine to the lab for his second rotation!
Nov 2, 2017 We welcome Maha Sarfraz and Jeong Han, two new freshmen, to the Johnston lab!
Nov 2, 2017 Congrats to Alexandra, Kayla, Chaim, Mini, Jin, and Linda for great talks at the Pairing Hoedown at Bowdoin College!
Oct 14, 2017 Congratulations to Chaim Chernoff who was named as a Hanigan Fellow as part of his Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Sept 5, 2017 We welcome Amanda Ray to the lab for her first rotation!
Jul 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!
May 16, 2017 Congrats to Jin Lu who received a PURA fellowship!
May 16, 2017 Congratulations to Mohika Nagpal who received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship!
May 4, 2017 Congratulations to Sarah Hadyniak who won the Victor Corces Teaching Award!
Apr 29, 2017 We welcome Linda Krasniewski, a sophomore, to the lab!
Apr 29, 2017 Congrats to Cyrus Zhou, former Johnston lab undergrad, who will be entering the MD/PhD at Washington University in St. Louis!
Apr 29, 2017 A belated welcome to Xiuqi Chen and Ariel Parker, two rotation students, to the lab!
Mar 17, 2017 Congrats to Heather on her marriage to Shane!
Feb 28, 2017 Check out Jenny’s paper in Development! We got the cover!
Jan 24, 2017 We welcome Jin and Mohika, new undergrads, to the lab!
Jan 23, 2017 We welcome Liz Urban, a rotation student, to the lab!
Jan 2, 2017 Happy New Year! Jenny’s paper was accepted at Development!
Nov 22, 2016 Congrats to Sang who go into Med School!
Nov 15, 2016 We welcome Kasia Krauss and Dan Konzman, two rotation students, to the lab!
Oct 24, 2016 Caity gave an awesome talk at the 2016 CMDB retreat!
Oct 24, 2016 Kayla won a best poster award at the 2016 CMDB retreat!
Oct 1, 2016 Congratulations to Kayla and Kiara on their awesome review in Trends in Genetics. We got the cover!
Sept 16, 2016 Congrats to Kayla who got an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship!
Sept 1, 2016 We partied with Cyrus on his last day. We wish him good luck during his Fulbright fellowship in Canada!
Aug 11, 2016 Bob presented Caity’s story on natural variation in color perception at the Visual Systems Development Gordon Conference!
Aug 8, 2016 We welcome Jee Min Kim, a rotation student, to the lab!
Jul 17, 2016 Caity gave a great talk at the Allied Genetics Conference 2016!
Jul 6, 2016 Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini has joined the lab as the first post-doc!
Jul 1, 2016 The BEAF paper got the cover of Development!
Jun 22, 2016 Mini Yuan, Ank Agarwal, and Chaim Chernoff were awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships!
Jun 2, 2016 We hosted the 1st Annual Mid-Atlantic Chromosomal Pairing Conference!
May 11, 2016. First 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!
Apr 14, 2016 Cyrus wins the Fulbright Award and the William McElroy Prize. Congrats!
Mar 18, 2016 We welcome Sarah Hadyniak and Nathan Roach, new rotation students, to the lab!
Mar 10, 2016 We welcome Heather Yerecic, a new research assistant, to the lab!
Jan 18, 2016 We welcome Andrew Gale, a new rotation student, to the lab!
Dec 18, 2015 We celebrated Christmas Star Wars-style at the department holiday party!
Dec 12, 2015 The annual Johnston lab Christmas party was a blast!
Nov 4, 2015 The annual Johnston lab Christmas party was a blast!
Nov 2, 2015 We welcome Jessie Kirshner, a new rotation student, to the lab!
Oct 24, 2015 Team Awesome (Annie, Cyrus, India), Caity, Kayla, and Kiara gave great talks at the 2015 Northeast Regional Drosophila Chromosome Pairing Meeting!
Oct 19, 2015 Congratulations to Kiara Eldred for winning a poster award at the 2015 departmental retreat!
Sept 4, 2015 We welcome German Uritskiy and Luke Shumway, new rotation students, to the lab!
Aug 4, 2015 Kiara Eldred has been awarded a 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study!
Jul 31, 2015 The Johnston lab had a great time at Paint Nite!
Jul 30, 2015 Congrats to Kiara, Kayla, and Caity, who did great jobs at their first thesis committee meetings!
Jul 15, 2015 The Johnston lab was awarded an NIH R01 grant to study stochastic expression decisions in the fly eye!
Jun 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!
May 25, 2015 The Johnston lab welcomes Alex Majane, a summer REU student!
May 23, 2015 Good times at the 2nd annual Johnston lab barbecue!
