Marietta Easterling graduated in August with her Ph.D in August with the successful defense of her dissertation, “Leptin: A Novel role as a nutritional modulator of limb development and regeneration in Xenopus leaves tadpoles.” She  started this month as a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Bressan at the University of North Carolina  School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, where she will be studying morphogenic patterning and differentiation of the heart.  We miss you Marietta! Best of luck!!