Fall 2023
Mountain of plates! Snow lab’s been busy!
Parker drives the Flow Cytometer for the first time. Hope she has a license!
Recent Snow lab alumns hard at work writing a review article.
Angie assembling a key figure for her senior thesis.
Summer 2023
Poster Besties!
Showing teachers the bees for STEAM in the City 2023
First trip to the new Gilder Center at the AMNH!
Talk time at the 2023 International Conf on Pollinator Biology, Health, and Policy!
Spring 2023
President Beilock stops by on Earth Day to see the bees!
Summer 2018
The ‘TUNEL’ team!
Snow lab reunion dinner!
Nora’s poster using flow cytometry to characterize N. ceranae.
Shannon’s poster on the Megachile heat shock response.
Dunay’s poster on honey bee midgut regeneration
Sam’s poster on sHSP and honey bee stress.
Sun’s out…….
SRI poster session!
The legendary Snow lab meeting.
Will they ever get a home?
Professor Snow, you have something on your face.
Sam says test the queens, so that’s what we’re going to do.
We will not be kept in the dark for long.
No, it’s not hot at all on the roof in NYC in July.
Posing for Barnard Communications.
Collaboration with Harlem Grown.
Getting bees is so easy with this handy dandy aspirator!
“I hate painting as much as Prof Snow.”
A job well done.
It has begun.
I call it ‘mentoring’, she calls it annoying.
Pre-painting artistic shot.
Nicole’s back!
Shannon takes care of the ‘chilis’.
Just another perfect plate.
Nora sorts it out.
Snow calmly moving bees.
OK, this time it’s really sorting.
Sam and Nora mixing art and science.
Shannon showing off alfalfa leafcutter bees cocoons.
The 2018 crew at work.
Beads?!?
The 2018 crew at rest.
Summer 2017
Sam feeding a newborn Nosema spores.
Sam and JeanPaul extracting RNA.
Prof Snow explaining some data.
Everybody dissecting bees.
Dunay showing off her bee catching skills.
Whole crew feeding newborn bees.
Dunay’s first captured bee!
Tasnin counting Nosema spores.
Spring 2015
Nina playing with newly eclosed bees.
Brittany learning how to remove the bolus.
Joba playing with newly eclosed bees.
Tara and Prof Snow taking a break.
The gang admiring the new queens.
Prof Snow gets bees.
Fall 2014
A bee explores the aspirator.
Summer 2014
Mia, Maryam, and I hanging with President Spar.
The whole gang hard at work!
Summer 2014
Mia and Tara at the SRI poster session.
Mia, Brittany, and Maryam enjoying their breakroom.
Mia takes pictures of pollen from the food bolus of a forager bee.
Tara, Henry, and Maryam demonstrate different styles for wearing a lab coat.
Mia collects bees.
Bee collection practice.
Maryam harvests hemolymph from bees.
Snow lab lunch at ‘The Heights’.
Tara fearlessly catches bees.
Brittany sets up a key qPCR plate.
Prof Snow’s birthday!
Prof Snow does a hive check.
Mia and Professor Snow rep the new and old Snow Lab t-shirts.
Snow lab picture right before summer 2014. Good luck, class of 2014! We’ll miss you Jess, Hannah, and Nazifa!
Fall 2013- Spring 2014
Safety first in the Snow lab!
Prof Snow examines a sample.
Prof Snow enjoys fall on the roof.
Summer 2013
Hannah, Mia, and Jess mark newborn bees
Sofia and Mia master the art of dissecting the food bolus from bees.
Barnard bees and the NYC skyline.
Sofia and Prof Snow up on the roof.
Fall 2012- Spring 2013
Sofia and Prof Snow keeping the bees with Prof Snow’s father.
Sofia and Prof Snow keeping the bees with Prof Snow’s father.
Sofia closes the gate on a pollen trap to catch returning bees using an aspirator.
Goodbye Williams!!
Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
End of the year Snow lab BBQ.
End of the year Snow lab BBQ.
Ashley setting up a PCR reaction.
Jamal back for homecoming.
Coffee club with Meera, Kelsey, and Marissa.
Summer 2011
Kelsey demonstrating the ‘no-look’ pipette technique.
Geordie fires up some PCR reactions in our thermalcycler.
Felix checks out a Western Blot.
Fall 2010- Spring 2011
End of the year Snow lab dinner!
Jamal and Hilary stand by a Snow lab poster.
Mountain Day with Hilary and Jamal.
Hilary and Jamal demonstrate the initial stages of RNA extraction
Summer 2010
Hilary holding a frame of bees.
Jamal and Hilary relaxing with Mattila Lab folks after a long day of collecting bee samples.
Prof Snow dissecting bees in the field.
Jamal holding a frame of bees.
Collecting bee samples with the Mattila Lab at Wellesley College.
Jamal and Hilary mark newborn bees at Mattila Lab at Wellesley College
Heather Mattila show us some tricks of bee research at her lab at Wellesley College.
Newborn bees after marking.