Congratulations to MCDB’s 2020 Spangler Awardees!

omer mano, lauren penfield, lucas sanor
June 5, 2020

We are happy to announce that the following students have been awarded the 2020 Spangler Award for outstanding Ph.D. Thesis:

Omer Mano (Clark Lab) 
“Development of Systems identification tools to investigate visual processing Drosophila”

Lauren Penfield (Bahmanyar Lab)
“Mechanisms of nuclear envelope remodeling in C. elegans”

Lucas Sanor (Crews Lab)
“Coupling Classic Biology with New Technology: A Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 Screen in Regenerating Haploid Limbs of Chimeric Axolotls.”