FLY-tastic science

Hanna Jin and Isabella Salguero Cespedes

 Rameesha Mustafa

Leila Ghaffari

Omer Sherif and
Christina Shrestha

Ini Oluseyi

Click here to watch highlights 📹

Kemi Sobukunola

Munachi Mbaekwe
with Dr. Robinson

Eva Stanley and Francesca Burton

Omer Sherif, Stephen Roberts,
and Anu Katiyar

Keiko Luke

Nandini Rajpara

Sophia Conrad

Selfie with Dr. Vonhoff

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Anthony Rosenthal presented his work at the Drosophila Neuroscience Colloquium at the NIH.

Great job, Anthony! 😃

Click here to watch our field trip video 📹

Zachary Smith presented his work at the Drosophila Neuroscience Colloquium at the NIH.

Way to go, Zach! 😃

Click here to watch our field trip video 📹

Kudos to Stephen Roberts, Omer Sherif, and Anu Katiyar for presenting their work at the Phage Gala 🧫

Graduate students, Claudia Gualtieri and Anthony Rosenthal, participated in the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) held in Washington, DC. 🔬🧠🤔

Claudia presented her work titled, “Exploring Synaptic Pruning Mechanisms Investigating Autism-Associated Genes in Drosophila Central Nervous System Development” 🪰

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Inioluwa Oluseyi, for being chosen as the first recipient of the Thomas F. Roth Research Award! 🎉

Click here to read the news article 🔬

Keep up the great work, Ini! 👏🏼

Congratulations to our undergraduates for presenting their  summer-long terrific work at the UMBC SURF 2023! 👏🏼

Munachiso Nkeonye-Mbaekwe & Shreya Singh

Adekemi Sobukunola

Sophia Conrad &
Solom Harraz

Dr. Vonhoff and Zach provided a “Little Library” to the kids of the Peace Park Camp in Catonsville 📚

What an awesome way to reach out to the community and share science to the young ones! 😃

Claudia discussed her research with the members of the Colloca Lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore 👩🏻‍🔬

“The Vonhoff lab, where I carry my studies, and the Colloca Lab work on such different topics, dealing with such different models.

Seeing their research setting and hearing about their projects captivated me, and I hope they were curious about how Drosophila can be used to address neuroscientific inquiries.” -Claudia

(Top: Dina Hadj-Mabrouk,
Bottom: Heba Bakry)

(Top: Katrina Bucci,
Bottom: Simeon Nelson)

(Top: Jess Cortes,
Bottom: Joana Hernandez)

MS Graduate student: Sushma Sri Maddi

Congratulations, Dr. Vonhoff, for being this year’s Black/Latine/x Excellence Awardee! 👏🏼

What an honor it is to work with you! 😃

Claudia presented at the MyDEV2023 Meeting at the University of Milan 🇮🇹

She also received the ‘Best Poster’ Award 🥇 Great job, Claudia! 👏🏼

Dr. Vonhoff with keynote speaker, Dr. Bryan Dewsbury, Associate Professor at Florida International University and Associate Director of STEM Transformation Institute

7th Annual Provost’s Teaching & Learning Symposium

Poster by our very own Claudia Gualtieri, Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano, and Dr. Fernando Vonhoff on “Assessing and Reversing Students’ Unpreparedness in Upper-Level Biology Courses”

UMBC President Valerie Ashby and Simeon Nelson

Katrina Bucci

Eva Stanley and Francesca Burton

Roshnee Roberts

Congratulations to our undergraduates for their awesome presentations at the UMBC URCAD! 👏🏼

Christina Shrestha

Kudos to Eva Stanley and Kierstyn White for presenting their work at the Phage Gala 🧫

Claudia Gualtieri presented her work at the Drosophila Neuroscience Colloquium at the NIH.

Click here to watch our field trip video 📹

Way to go, Claudia! 😃

Eva Stanley presented her poster at the 2022 ABRCMS in Anaheim, California.

Great work, Eva! 👏🏼

Congratulations, Zach, for passing your prelim!

We’re so proud of you! 👏🏼

Photos from the UMBC Doctoral Candidates Recognition Ceremony and Banquet.

Congratulations, Dr. Vonhoff, for being one of the recipients of the LHFA award! 🥳