Welcome Sara!

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

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

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.
‘Housewarming party’ (and training) for our beloved microscope – one of our most precious tools for discovery in the lab.
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…