October 2016 - Ph.D. candidate Sheila Mosallae attends a MBL workshop on Gene Regulatory Networks in Woods Hole, MA!
September 2016 - Dr. Arnold Salazar joins the Kinney Lab at UNLV.
September 2016 - Ph.D. student Sheila Mosallae passes her comprehensive exams! Congrats!
September 2016 - The Las Vegas Science Cafe now with official UNLV support from the College of Sciences! Check out our new site here.
August 2016 - Several new undergrads join the Raftery Lab - Welcome everyone!
August 2016 - Ph.D. candidate Juan Duhart is awarded a UNLV Hermsen Fellowship. Congrats!
August 2016 - Ph.D. candidate Travis Parsons presents a poster at the Society for Developmental Biology / International Society for Differentiation joint conference in Boston, MA!
July 2016 - Dr. Arnold Salazar joins the Raftery Lab for a two month crash course in fly genetics!
December 2015 - Ph.D. student Tammara Beeghly passes her comprehensive exams! Congrats!
May 2015 - Two new students join the lab - Welcome!
October 2015 - Our lab blog has moved! See our new one here.
July 2015 - Undergraduate Nicholas Rose leaves the lab to persue a career as a medical doctor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno, NV. Previous undergraduates Steven Kim and Carla Cortez also begin their careers as medical doctors at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno, NV and AT Still University in Arizona.
July 2015 - Laboratory hike in the Spring Mountains (photos).
July 2015 - Ph.D. student Travis Parsons passes his comprehensive exams! Congrats!
July 2015 - Poster presented at the TGF-Beta meeting in Snowmass, CO.
May 2015 - REU Student Maryanne comes to the Raftery Lab to undertake a summer research project.
April 2015 - Ph.D. student Travis Parsons and Ph.D. candidate Kathryn Lantz present a poster at the UNLV Academic Showcase Awards & Gala.
March 2015 - The Raftery Lab flies to Chicago, IL., for the annual GSA sponsered Drosophila Research Conference.
August 2014 - We have started a blog to highlight some of the research in our lab. Click on the 'Lab Blog' link near the top of the page to read it!
August 2014 - Undergraduates Leeda Barikzi (Image) and Carla Cortez (Image) present in poster sessions for INBRE and REU.
May 2014 - Undergraduate Carla Cortez is awarded a UNLV REU fellowship.
May 2014 - Undergraduate Aaron Tippetts lands a summer internship at the San Diego Zoo.
Mar. 2014 - Ph.D. student Travis Parsons, former lab technician Seema Patel, and undergraduates Carla Cortez, Lina Truong, and Leeda Barikzi present posters at the GSA Drosophila Conference. (Image).
Jan. 2014 - Undergraduate Leeda Barikzi is awarded an INBRE fellowship.
Jan. 2014 - Former post-doctoral lab member Xia Wang lands a job at Touro University, Nevada.
Jan. 2014 - Doctoral candidate Juan Carlos Duhart obtains a GPSA Grant.
