Newcomers:

Kristen McKnight and Sharmistha Kundu - Postdocs, Seung Kim Lab

Jian Ciao - Postdoc, Matthew Scott Lab

Emily Hare - HHMI Asscociate, David Kingsley Lab

Judith Mathews - Administrative Assistant, Phil Beachy Lab

Graduate Student Corner:

• Beware - the university will now be charging graduate students a Health Service Fee at $167 per qtr; details can be found at http://vaden.stanford.edu/fees/.
  
  
• Make sure to enroll in time every quarter: this can delay your stipend check among other things.
  
  
• Committee meetings should take place at least once a year, have you had a committee meeting lately???
  
  

Awards:

Lucy Shapiro – awarded Canada Gairdner Award "for their discovery of mechanisms that define cell polarity and asymmetric cell division, processes key in cell differentiation and in the generation of cell diversity": http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2009/march/shapiro-gairdner.html

David Kingsley - 2009 Edwin Grant Conklin Medal for distinguished and sustained research in Developmental Biology (Society for Developmental Biology)