2021
Congratulations to Susie who has received a Graduate Women’s NZ fellowship. The GWNZ Fellowship was awarded to provide recognition and financial assistance to women undertaking doctoral study.
![May be an image of 1 person and outdoors](https://scontent.fchc2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/241860580_1983638525136692_6915993170626419285_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=pYJ2cJ8V1WIAX_7oiUP&_nc_ht=scontent.fchc2-1.fna&oh=322a6a806a5c67a2b848d031c7e7f555&oe=61515AC7)
Congratulations to Rebecca – PhD submitted during lock-down in August!
![hitting the university bell](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_9323-1024x768.jpg)
Congratulations to Jeremy who has completed his PhD
![Photo of researchers hitting the university bell](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_8861-1-1024x768.jpg)
Lab renovations completed in February
![Photo of newly renovated research laboratory](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_8509-1024x768.jpg)
Been too busy to update for a while!
2018
Below are some highlights from the year.
Women’s Wellbeing Symposium 2018 – Susie and Stephanie presented their PhD work at the first Women’s Wellbeing Symposium, held at the Dunedin Art Gallery in November.
![Presentation by postgraduate student regarding Mammalian development](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3483-1024x768.jpg)
![Stephanie Workman giving a presentation](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3477-1024x839.jpg)
Combio2018 in Sydney
2017
Delighted to announce we have been awarded a 3 year Marsden Fund grant to investigate the cellular and molecular basis of whole body regeneration by Botryllodies leachii.
2017 has been so busy we haven’t updated the page in awhile. Below are some highlights from the year.
Yisheng made a quick return to Dunedin for his PhD viva in October, followed by lab lunch to celebrate his PhD completion.
![Labratory staff at a staff Lunch](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Lablunch-1024x1024.jpg)
Rebecca, Susie, Kathy and Steph attended the Genetics end of year shout as Ghosts of post-grad present
![Photo of postgrad girls from the labratory with ghost makeup.](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/postgradghosts-1024x576.jpg)
Rebecca and Steph presented exciting results from their Hons work as part of the Hons day presentations for the Genetics and BBioMedSci degree programmes.
Megan traveled to New York in July to present our work on whole body regeneration and sequencing of the Botrylloides leachii genome at the International Tunicate meeting.
![Megan Wilson giving a presentation. Introducing where we are in the world.](https://wilsonlab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/10._Megan_Wilson_University_of_Otago-1024x768.jpg)
December 2016
Big December graduation for the lab – Lisa graduated with her PhD (Genetics), Susie with BBioMedSci(Hons), Jeremy with BSc(Hons) and Jamie with a MSc (Anatomy).