Dr. Zwick's article, "Regional organization of nutrient absorption across the small intestine," has been selected to be featured on the cover of Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology October 2026 issue!

The Zwick Lab's first lab cleanup day! We gave our beautiful new space some much-deserved attention, then wrapped up with a happy hour to thank everyone for their hard work.

NYU Langone Health sponsors a cruise for Postdoc Appreciation Month! Sean and Sara join Gaurab from the Sahu lab and Juliet from the Lu lab in celebrating in the New York Harbor.

We have seasonal joint lab meetings with Dr. Ali May's lab from Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. Here we are at happy hour after our summer presentations by Raz and Yvonne.

Check out Rachel's new review, "Regional organization of nutrient absorption across the small intestine," published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology! For a glimpse into the research behind our exploration of the historical origins of intestinal regionalization, see our update below about her visit to NYAM.

The lab celebrates Dr. Zwick's birthday! We had a custom swiss roll-shaped cake 😀

The Zwick Lab celebrates Sean's first week in the lab at Fáilte 🙂

Sean Thompson, PhD, has joined the Zwick Lab as a postdoc! His groundbreaking doctoral work at Washington State University studied Rete ridge formation in mammalian skin; we're very excited to be welcoming him to NYC!

Raz, Irene, and Sara join Rachel at Girls, Inc. to teach a workshop on stem cell biology to local high school students in collaboration with Her Rising Initiative and Girls Who Lead. We taught students about how and why stem cells develop over time into other cell types, and led them through an activity where they developed their own stem cell models.

The Zwick Lab celebrates one year at NYU Grossman School of Medicine! We got together with some lab friends for bocce, darts, and blew out the singular candle on our first birthday cake.

The Zwick Lab took an upstate daytrip to Beacon, NY to unwind. Pictured here are works from Richard Serra and Kishio Suga on display at Dia Beacon. After the museum, the lab explored some bookstores, cafes, and antique shops on Main Street, stopping at Meyer's Olde Dutch for lunch. Getting some fresh air and seeing the last of the fall foliage was lovely 🙂

Congratulations to Rachel on receiving the 2025 NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2) to support our lab's research on pregnancy-associated intestinal remodeling!

Happy hour to celebrate new beginnings, and to welcome Sara to the lab!

Rachel gives her first conference talk as a PI at the FASEB GI epithelium conference. Thank you to the organizers for a fantastic meeting! PC: Matt Ciorba

Welcome Sara Alonso, PhD: first postdoc of the Zwick lab!

Fun times at the first annual Regenerative Medicine Institute Retreat!

We are so excited the Irene has joined the Zwick lab for her PhD studies after a great rotation. Out for a happy hour to celebrate!

The Zwick Lab has its very first organoids!!

Extremely excited to welcome Irene, our very first rotation student in the NYU Vilcek PhD program, to the lab this week!

Playing with our department's new light sheet microscope - the first of this model in the US!

It has been so much fun to connect with multiple waves of visitors from the Klein Lab! First David, Ameera, and Jessi, and Jackson in NY for a conference, then Ophir who gave a fantastic talk for the NYU Dental School. Thank you for visiting our lab and come back soon!

'Housewarming party' (and training) for our beloved microscope - one of our most precious tools for discovery in the lab.

Rachel gives a seminar at WSU. Thank you to Ryan Driskell for the invitation and for hosting me for such a fantastic visit, including this invigorating hike.

AND our stuff has arrived! Here we are at happy hour, celebrating the launch of our lab this week!

MASSIVE WELCOME to the fabulous & heroic first members of the Zwick Lab, Nick and Raz!

Rachel sets up shop in her new office in the beautiful building that will soon be home to the Regenerative Medicine Institute! Proud to be the pioneering member of the third floor. The Zwick lab launches soon!!!

Fieldtrip to the New York Academy of Medicine's remarkable Rare Books Room to learn about the etymology of the intestine for an upcoming literature review. Many thanks to Arlene, the NYAM Historical Collections Librarian, for hosting me for such a productive and fascinating visit. Stay tuned for our review...

Rachel gave her first seminar as a faculty member - appropriately, for the Department of Cell Biology seminar series! It was wonderful to visit future colleagues and NYC!