Marie Hoyer won the Dresden Excellence Award for her Master’s Thesis! Her project, "Tissue mechanics during spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish larvae,” was a collaborative project between the Becker Group and the group of Otger Campàs (Excellence Cluster Physics of Life), supervised by Stephen Enos (Becker Group) and with the substantial support of Shuo-Ting Yen (Campàs Group). The award is issued each year by the City of Dresden to four awardees, to recognize excellent scholarship at all academic levels (Bachelor’s, Master’s, Ph.D., Habilitation). Congratulations Marie!

Four of our Master’s students from this year all graduated today! Congratulations to Elena, Marie, Kim, and Aruzhan, who all celebrated a job well done and a significant milestone in the academic careers. Best of luck for your next adventures!

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!