December 2023: Lab holiday and end of year celebration. Looking forward to 2024 with this amazing group!
December 2023: Brooke Weiler has joined the lab as a graduate student! Brooke is in the NTP program at UW. Welcome Brooke!
December 2023: Angelica, Serena, and Candy represented the lab at the American Society for Cell Biology Conference. And enjoyed some fun in Boston!
October 2023: Spooky season fun!
July 2023: Lab picture day! Thanks Candy Wong for the great lighting and updated pictures.
June 2023: We said goodbye to Mady who is moving on to graduate school at UNC! Good luck Mady!
May 2023: End of the semester lab hike at Pheasant Branch. Cheers to the end of a great year! And goodbye and good luck to our undergraduate researcher Don Mai who is off to a clinical research internship this summer!
March 2023: Congratulations to Angelica Lang! Recipient of a NSF GRFP award to support her research in the lab for the next 3 years! Way to go, Angelica!
March 2023: Candy’s first author review on using zebrafish to study mitochondrial biology in the lateral line sensory system is out in Hearing Research! Congrats Candy!
October 2022: Great presentations from Don, Candy, Mady and Angelica are our regional Society for Developmental Biology meeting!
October 2022: In more great lab news, congrats to former lab member Dane Kawano on his first author paper! Read it here.
October 2022: Congrats to Candy on her Star Protocols paper acceptance!! Read it here.
October 2022: Happy spooky season from the Drerup lab!
July 2022: Belated lab celebration on the terrace. Happy birthday Angelica! Congrats to Candy on her paper submission (and superb cake)!
May 2022: Kaiya Johnson presented her project research project at the undergraduate research festival for Bio 152 and did a fantastic job! Thanks to her and her mentor for the semester, Mady Chlebowski.
May 2022: A very hot lab hike at beautiful Devil’s Lake!
March 2022: Lab fun on frozen lake Mendota! Followed by a lovely 5mi walk along the lake. Fun times with fun people.
December 2021 (a big month for our group!): Big welcome to our newest lab member, Angelica Lang! She is joining us as a graduate student from the Genetics training program here at UW-Madison. Look for big things from her soon!
December 2021: This month, while we said goodbye to Melissa, we welcomed a new research intern to the lab, Chris Stein. Chris has previous experience working with yeast. I told him zebrafish were basically just big yeast, right?
December 2021: Congratulations Melissa! Our first undergraduate has graduated and is taking a research position at PPD here in Madison.
November 2021: Happy Birthday Melissa!
End of Summer 2021: We said goodbye to our awesome summer undergrads, Emily and Jonathan. They each identified and propagated a new mutant line! So much potential in these young scientists!
Summer 2021 outdoor lab celebration on the terrace!
May 2021: Welcome Melissa Martin! Our newest Drerup lab member.
May 2021: Amrita’s paper was the subject of a commentary in Nature-Cell Death Discovery. Check it out!
April 2021: The lab welcomes our first UW-Madison Undergrad, Don Mai!
January 1, 2021: Happy New Year! The Drerup lab has officially opened at UW-Madison!
Dec. 2020: Amrita’s paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience! Congrats Amrita!
August 2020: Candy Wong joins the lab as a postdoc! Welcome Candy!
Zebrafish meeting in Madison, summer of 2018.