Won our first ever biology department soup cook off with a creamy tortellini chicken soup! Good job Rothenberg lab!

I’m so sad to have missed the Midwest Drosophila Conference due a nasty cold. But some of my students made the journey and had a great time! @jiarui219.bsky.social gave a talk to open up the conference, @briod613.bsky.social gave a very successful poster, and Aiza joined for her first conference!

Adding more flies to our creepy fruit fly stuffed animal collection!

The Rothenberg Lab presented at the University of Iowa’s Biology retreat! Check out our grad students and their posters.

Our lab mascot, Samwise, is always encouraging us to keep reaching higher!

@briod613.bsky.social from our lab is at #bobiac2025 learning from the best all about Python-based image analysis!

We are very proud to be featured throughout this newsletter among all of the excellent departmental achievements. Congrats to all of our lab members for doing great things!

Lab is for getting research done and having a little bit of fun!

Last week much of the lab went to the Holden Comprehensive Cancer center retreat. We had a great time sharing our science, learning about the efforts to fight cancer at all levels, and meeting fellow scientists.

We took the day off from the lab in recognition of #Juneteenth. A few of us took the opportunity to show our visiting student Annadelle some of the nature Iowa has to offer! We visited Lake MacBride State Park and the Iowa Raptor Project.

Welcome to the Rothenberg lab! Our lab includes our P.I. Dr. Katy Rothenberg, graduate students Bri, Elizabeth, and Jiarui, post-bacc Liv, and summer students Tate and Annadelle. Check out our website rothenberg.lab.uiowa.edu and follow along to meet the people in our lab.