8/21/2026Kavya earns her lab mug and departs to start her postdoc at UCSF!

2/27/2026Sofia departs the lab for McKinsey Consulting!

10/31/2025David’s review on invertebrate cancer models and comparative oncology is out in Annual Review of Cancer Biology.

6/27/2025David’s co-authored Nature Cancer Review on comparative oncology is now online!

5/13/2025Ku’s paper on metalloproteases shaping ECM and morphogenesis is published in PNAS!

10/11/2024Jung’s paper on paraneoplastic renal dysfunction is published in PNAS!

10/22/2022Jung leaves to start his own lab at the University of Hong Kong!


5/20/2022PhDone! Congratulations to our new grads, Dr. Jack Hsi (left) and Dr. Mark Khoury (right), on completing their MCB PhDs!

4/15/2022Stephan and Geert’s paper on epithelial monitoring published in Science!

9/7/2021Jung’s paper on tumor and BBB published in Dev Cell!

8/17/2021Lab review on tumor-host interactions published in Nat Rev Cancer.

7/23/2021Cindy off to grad school!

8/1/2020New postdoc Stephan joins the lab! Welcome!
More Lab Highlights
  • Undergrad Sami Haraguchi receives the I.L. Chaikoff Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in the Cell & Developmental Biology and Neurobiology emphases! Congrats Sami!
  • Mark’s first paper published in PNAS
  • Katy O. awarded Damon Runyon Postdoc Fellowship
  • Dong’s last paper out in Nature Communications
  • Dong off to Cambridge & Caltech postdoc: Japanese food fest
  • New postdoc Katy Ong – Welcome to the lab
  • Anne Classen returns for a visit – great work published in eLife
  • Many alumni at Lunar New Year’s party!
  • Geert awarded his PhD in Utrecht
  • Alex departs for OHSU PhD program: zoo outing
  • Our first preprint on Biorxiv: 3D Tissue elongation via ECM stiffness-cued junctional remodeling
  • New tech Cindy Liu joins the lab
  • Geert’s paper cloning the tumor suppressor tid out in Dev Cell
  • Jung’s paper, in collaboration with Tom Neufeld, out in G&D
  • Dong turns in thesis – PhD official!
  • Hui-yu Ku starts her postdoc!
  • Another Nobel Prize for the Fruit Fly: David’s commentary in The New York Times
  • Nice commentary on Justin’s paper in Current Biology and F1000
  • Courtney off to Genentech – mini golf farewell
  • Fly Research Ecosystem review now available in Genetics
  • Justin’s paper demonstrating ECM mechanics in organ sculpting published in eLife
  • Mark Khoury joins the lab! Liquid lunch at Triple Rock
Lab Archive (2015–2017)
4/2/2017Dong awarded First Prize for his poster at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference: read more
2/1/2017Remy Crest joins the lab (family)! Congratulations Papa Justin and Mama Shaila!
1/15/2017Collaborative paper on tumor-induced autophagy out in Nature
12/15/2016Kath’s going away party at Pacific Pinball Museum
12/10/2016Surprise birthday party for Lupe
10/1/2016Courtney Bone starts her postdoc
9/26/2016Read David’s introductory Forum piece for Developmental Cell’s 15th anniversary issue: ‘The Maturation of Development’
9/15/2016Ryan off to UCSF PhD program; Alexandra Houser takes over as lab technician
7/14/2016Model Organism Database support letter tops 10,000 signatures, gets shout-out by NIH Director Francis Collins at TAGC Orlando plenary: “Your voice is heard”
7/13/2016Ale delivers Sandler award lecture for best Drosophila thesis, 2015, at Orlando TAGC meeting
5/18/2016Yalda wins Chaikoff Award at graduation for her MCB thesis!
5/17/2016Former tech Josh Schoenfeld (now MD/PhD, U Iowa) visits Berkeley
4/29/2016New PhD student Jack Hsi joins the lab!
4/28/2016Dong-Yuan and Kath’s paper is out in Cell Reports
3/24/2016Justin presents his work alongside MCB colleagues Iswar Hariharan and Becca Heald in Kobe, Japan
1/11/2016Katie Sharp arrives to start her postdoc!
12/19/2015Dong returns from trip to Japan, presenting at BMB2015 and RIKEN-CDB
9/21/2015Jung Kim starts his postdoc in the lab – Welcome Jung!
8/14/2015Marta finishes her overseas rotation in the Bilder lab – goodbye party at CREAM
6/17/2015Dong attends EMBL workshop on Bioimage Data Analysis
6/14/2015David and Thomas reunite at BioMed conference in Barcelona
5/28/2015Ale’s paper is featured in a News and Views in Nature
5/22/2015Ale receives her PhD and gives the commencement address
5/2/2015Lab attends Whitney Ibarra’s Quinceañera
4/21/2015News and Views on Ale’s paper in Science Signaling and The Scientist
4/6/2015Ale’s paper on fly cancer cachexia is published
4/2/2015Katie Sharp accepts the lab’s postdoc offer
3/4/2015David begins term as President of the Drosophila Board as he and Geert attend Fly Meeting
2/26/2015Brandon’s paper on Drosophila tumors is published in eLife
2/16/2015David gives opening talk at the Stanford Dept. of Developmental Biology 25th reunion