Congratulations on our lab graduates in 2025! (please click to see more photos)

Congratulations to Brianna Singh, Matthew Bacchus and Aaron Saran! Wishing you all a bright and successful future beyond Hofstra! We will miss you!

Aaron: our fearless field-management leader (who started as a volunteer and quickly became the manager)! Exceptionally skilled and experienced, he somehow managed to have the least troubleshooting in his research project (I would disagree that you get the “real research experience" ...do you want to work on a new project just for troubleshooting?😉). Just kidding!

Matthew: so bright and incredibly experienced! As a founding member of the lab, he’s worn many hats: lab volunteer, honors research assistant, independent research student, and summer research fellowship recipient. He has completed several thousands of PCRs (with gels!) just to track which Ds elements are still transposable. Our go-to person if you have any PCR struggles!

Brianna: sweet, thoughtful, and incredibly responsible. She and Phaedra took over a project initiated by Matthew that involved three generations of plants with initially unconfirmed lines. They confirmed the genotypes (one of the most critical steps in genetics), carried out histone methylation assays started by Matthew, and conducted DNA methylation and gene expression analyses. Their project was the most complex to explain as it involves multiple generations of segregation and tracking, but Brianna presented it clearly and confidently to both collaborators and poster viewers.