Katherine English, a 3rd year PhD candidate in Dr. Matthew Alexander’s lab was recently accepted into the 2023 Mouse Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 

The three-week intensive course will contain both lecture and practical components on the contemporary study of development and organogenesis led by experts in the developmental biology field. She hopes to use these techniques to further her research in skeletal muscle regeneration for her Ph.D. doctoral dissertation.

English said, “I will have the opportunity to learn and practice many techniques useful for early embryonic and stem cell research. My thesis work focuses on rare neuromuscular disorders, typically genetic in nature. With the techniques I learn in this course, such as embryo culture and injection, I will be able to further my research at the embryonic stage. I am also very excited to meet faculty from other universities and some pharmaceutical industry scientists. This course is going to be an amazing 3 weeks full of learning and science and I am so pleased to have been selected.”

Congratulations!