Catherina and Thomas presented our group’s work on spinal cord regeneration in two talks at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop - Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration meeting at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Okinawa, Japan! Sofiia Ushakova, a master’s student in the Becker Group presented her thesis work on Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) at this exciting workshop in Japan.

At this year’s Life Science Campus Summer Conference, Elena Nicolay, who is completing her master’s thesis in the Becker Group under the supervision of Friederike Kessel, won the Audience Award for Best Scientific Content. She was presenting on her work, titled, "Dynamics of macrophage polarization in spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish larvae.” Congratulations Elena!