We are excited to have Meg and David in the lab rotating with us! To welcome them we all went out to solve some puzzles.
10/2025 | Our Nature paper is out!
Our Nature paper is out! Read “Niche-specific dermal macrophage loss promotes skin capillary ageing.”
10/2025 | Mesa Lab carves pumpkins
Celebrating the holiday and cool temperatures by carving pumpkins!
10/2025 | Welcome Lucy to the lab!
We are so excited to have Lucy the gecko in the lab! She is loving all of the social interaction!
10/2025 | Char, Chunyan, and Kai present their work at the Annual Mol Bio Retreat!
Char, Chunyan, and Kai got to present their work at the departmental retreat. Not pictured, Char and Chunyan’s well done posters!
9/2025 | Maya joins the lab!
We are excited to welcome Maya to the lab as a sophomore! She has been learning the ropes of the 2-photon to begin live imaging experiments soon!
7/2025 | Zoe presents her work at the Summer Research Colloquium!
We are so proud of everything Zoe accomplished during her time in the lab over the summer. She did an awesome job presenting her work to other faculty and students!
7/2025 | Welcome Chunyan to the Lab!
We are so excited to welcome our first postdoc, Dr. Chunyan Fu to the lab! She comes to us from Zhejiang University, and has already taken a leadership role in working with undergrad Beatrice!
6/2025 | Undergraduates Beatrice and Zoe live imaging
Beatrice, an undergraduate from CalTech has joined the lab for the summer!
Beatrice and Zoe (undergraduates) are busy doing some live imaging of mice in the lab!
6/2025 | Welcome to the lab for the summer, Zoe!
Our first undergraduate student, Zoe, joins us for the summer as a rising sophomore at Princeton!
5/2025 | Experiments have begun!
The microscope has landed in its new home and experiments have begun!
4/2025 | Char rotates in the Mesa Lab!
We are excited to have a graduate student, Char, rotate in our lab! She will be researching the relationship between fibroblasts and macrophages.
4/2025 | Lab space up and running
After much work, our lab space is up and running and ready to perform experiments!
3/2025 | Dr. Emily Polk joins the lab!!
Excited to announce that Emily has arrived as our lab manager and first lab member! Emily is coming to us from Buffalo, NY where she recently completed her PhD at the University at Buffalo.
3/2025 | In Progress: Microscope room
Our microscope room has walls! One step closer to getting to do some cool experiments.
