We use Drosophila genetics to study wound repair and regeneration. Read on for more information about the lab and our work and follow us on Bluesky: @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social
Undergrads: we love having undergrads in the lab, but we are full right now with no more positions available! Check back here and I will announce when we are interviewing for a new student.
Most recent lab news:
August 2025: Congratulations to Connor Powers for winning an Outstanding Poster Award at the MCB retreat!
August 2025: Congratulations to Anish Bose for winning Outstanding Talk at the International Society for Regenerative Biology Meeting in Madison Wisconsin!
June 2025: Anish Bose‘s paper is out in Science Advances! We show that Zelda is crucial for the exit from regeneration. Congrats to Anish, Keaton, Surabhi, and Sai for their hard work and perseverance. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads5743
May 2025: Congratulations to undergraduates Chandril (Sai) Kodali and Jamie Gonzalez for graduating with High Distinction and winning Research Achievement Awards!
May 2025: Congratulations to Kaela Maghinang for winning the Tom and Cynthia Cycyota Research Scholarship!
March 2025: Check out Felicity Hsu‘s preprint on the roles of Myc, Tor, and cell competition in the regeneration blastema! https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.15.643479
December 2024: Welcome to Connor Powers – new graduate student in the lab! We are so excited that you have joined us!
November 2024: Congratulations to Felicity Hsu for winning the Outstanding Poster Award at the CDB Retreat!
July 2024: Congratulations for Snigdha Mathure for winning the Chester and Nadine Houston Fellowship, a Histochemical Society Travel Award, and a Bioimaging North America Professional Development Award, enabling attendance at the University of Chicago: Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences course at the Marine Biological laboratory.
June 2024: Congratulations to Anish Bose and Snigdha Mathure for winning Agilent Notable Platform Presentation Awards!
March 2024: Kudos to Anish Bose for giving an excellent talk at The Allied Genetics Conference in Washington DC!
November 2023: Congratulations to Anish Bose for winning the Outstanding Poster Award at the CDB Retreat!
December 2023: S. Nayab F. Abidi‘s paper is out in PLOS Genetics! We show that Brat constrain regeneration and in doing so protects cell fates along the margin of the wing. Congrats to Nayab and Felicity for their hard work and perseverance. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011103
October 2023: Congratulations to Anish Bose for winning an Outstanding Talk Award at the Midwest Drosophila Research Conference, and Snigdha Mathure and Surabhi Sonam for wining outstanding poster awards as well!
October 2023: Rachel and co-PIs across MCB are awarded funding from the Roy J. Carver Foundation for a new Zeiss LSM 900 confocal microscope!