Every year Stacey buys the lab ice cream and asks the lab to fill out a Lab Assessment Tool to provide feedback on her mentoring and the lab culture. Not many PIs do this, but more should! We are definitely very grateful to work with a PI who cares so much about their mentees.
May 1
We had 2 new MCB graduate students recently join the lab! Welcome to the (A-quality) B-Team, Aale Agans and Grace Galarneau!
Mar 20
The Hanlon lab had a wonderful time at #Dros26 sharing our work on B chromosomes. We`re already excited for next year!
Mar 9
#tbt A post to celebrate our wonderful undergraduate student, Ellie!
Ellie is an undergraduate student in the Molecular and Cell Biology department at UConn and joined the Hanlon lab in early 2025. Ellie worked on identifying why B chromosomes drag through the male germline. Ellie has recently moved on to gain experience in the medical field and we hope her future endeavors are B-yond measure!
Feb 26
W year for the Hanlon Lab: made new friends, took pictures on the scope, ran gels, stared at computers, took more pictures on the scope. "B" excited for us bringing this energy into the new year!
Jan 6
Post of appreciation for our second rotation student @a.agans1227 !! Fun fact: for the award winning B Chromosome Express costume Aale wore an actual Amtrak conductors uniform! We love their commitment to the bit, and their curiosity about B chromosomes.
Dec 8
All aboard the B Chromosome Express!!! Finished HANLONween with 2 for 2 costume contest wins this year!! B-lieve that we will bring similar heat next year!
Nov 4
B-ware of the new PhD candidate in the Hanlon lab. Shania brang in spooky season with her proposal
Oct 23
Suparna gave a RIPS that was B-yond compare today!!! And answered a bunch a questions like a pro! The Hanlon Lab is proud but not surprised 😌
Sep 19
Welcome to our first rotation student of the semester:Grace!
Grace likes long walks on the beach and working with @ed_r00sell to figure out what our B chromosomes are made of using techniques like microscopy with fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and ovary mitotic preps.
Sep 10
The Hanlon Lab is putting the "B" in @biohaven! Two of our awesome graduate students, Shania (red vest) and Michelle (blue t-shirt), were awarded the Biohaven Pharmaceuticals Summer Fellowship for 2025. Thank you, @biohaven for supporting the next generation of awesome scientists!
Aug 22
The Hanlon Lab had a B-dazzling summer!
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We participated in the inaugural Kienzlon Cookout and got to know students from the Kienzler lab in the chemistry department
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@annettedoesgenetics presented her project at the 2025 ESB Undergrad Summer Symposium
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We had a blast playing games at both the @graduateorganization.mcb Summer Bash and the ISG Ice Cream Social
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Members of our lab organized and participated in a queer science conference to bring fly genetics to highschool students
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The lab put the B in Boston while attending the Boston Area Drosophila meeting
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The Hanlon Lab even travelled to the coast with Project Limulus to tag horseshoe crabs for conservational science
Jul 28
B-yond proud of Robin for sharing her Hanlon lab work at the RaMP End of Year Symposium
Jul 11
The Hanlon Lab won some trivia this week! The "Buzzing Bs" answered trivia questions like a B-st!
Jun 21
This week we attended UConn`s annual Fly Club meeting. Shout out to all of our poster presenters and Congratulations to @annettedoesgenetics for winning a poster award for her un-B-lievable aging project!
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Swipe for a surprise Joint lab photobomb
May 23
The lab broadened their perspectives last week by looking up from their microscopes. Thank you @uconn_planetarium for B-ing an awesome galactic guide!
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It`s amazing that technology is advancing in both directions so we can take pictures of far away giant galaxies and microscopic B chromosomes!
May 19
We love our grad students in the Hanlon lab. Here are the grad students currently uncovering clues about the Bs!
Apr 10
The Hanlon Lab had a great time in San Diego at #DROS25 ! While sharing their work with other scientists, the lab made memories and created new inside jokes. We`d share one with you, but you had to `B` there
Mar 28
Double post B-cause the Hanlon Lab has been rocking presentations this weekend with Annette getting selected to present at the Big East Conference in NYC. You could say we put the "B" in Big East!!
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Swipe to see a Hanlon Lab alum showing his support for the lab!
Mar 16
Ed had the room Buzzing after sharing his plans to edit the B chromosome at RIPS
Mar 16
Was the Hanlon Lab at MCB`s recruitment?
You better B-lieve it!!
Feb 14
The Hanlon lab does not let the cold weather stop them from their experiments 😤 Here`s to the New Year B-ing full of exciting discoveries!
Jan 10
Another un-B-lievable year in the Hanlon Lab! Thanks for all your hard work and making the lab a great place to B!
Clockwise, from bottom left: Michelle, Kaylah, Haneesh, Natalie, Robin, Stacey, Shania, Edward, Annette, Abby, and Suparna (not pictured: Paul).
Dec 13
The Hanlon Lab had a B-witching time B-ing the crew from Inside Out 2 for Halloween! Such a creative bunch of scientists!
Oct 30
Congratulations to Annette, an un-B-lievable undergrad in the lab, on her first poster presentation! She described her UConn SURF-sponsored research investigating how oocyte age affects B chromosome transmission. Great job!
Oct 25
Haneesh J had an awesome rotation and helped put the "B" in Bioinformatics! Thanks for rotating through the Hanlon Lab!
Oct 19
Great RIPS talk, Shania! Now everyone knows how these chromosomes came to `B`...
Sep 27
Great job, Paulo! We are so proud 🙂 #HanlonLabAlumRock
Our lab's latest PhD candidate is Paulo Belato! Congrats on an excellent prelim exam. In Paulo's own words, "Let's go!"
That's a wrap on #TAGC24 posters for @TheHanlonLab! @MengjiaMLin drew a crowd B-cause of her enthusiasm!
@ImKaylahB is working up a storm at the #TAGC poster session tonight! If you don't catch her in the next 30 minutes, find @MengjiaMLin tomorrow to hear more about the work we do in @TheHanlonLab
First night of #TAGC24 posters was a success! @ryanmgado and @SKalladanthyil gave B-eautiful posters! For more exciting research from @TheHanlonLab, check out my poster tomorrow and @MengjiaMLin on Saturday!
So much to 'B' thankful for in the Hanlon Lab! We hosted another two awesome rotation students (Jasmine and Edward), and everyone came to 'B' together for our annual end-of-year pizza gathering to celebrate another great year in the Hanlon Lab. I'm so proud of the B team!
Daria, our awesome Fall McNair Apprentice, is doing great at dissecting out lots of ovaries for her shadowing project - can't wait to see those B-utiful images from them!
Since we have such a "stellar" crew, we decided to B the Solar System for Halloween! NOTE: planets and distances not to scale. With grad students @ImKaylahB and Shania (@MengjiaMLin in spirit), rotons Jasmine, Edward, and Alex, and undergraduates @ryanmgado, Annette, and Louise.
What could "B" more wonderful than one awesome @UConnMCB Ph.D. rotation students working in the lab? How about TWO! Thanks to Maddy (left) and Alex (right) for checking out the Hanlon Lab this rotation cycle! Also thanks to their B-team mentors, @ImKaylahB and @MengjiaMLin!
Emma, our NSF REU student, did an awesome job sharing her summer research exploring how Wolbachia affects B chromosome transmission. Her results show that Wolbachia infection may suppress drive of the Bs! Thanks for B-ing with us, Emma!
