Developmental biologist who loves and uses the Drosophila eye to study exciting topics in fate specification and patterning. (he/him)

Indiana University
Joined January 2018
The Lacefield Lab, team “mighty mice and yeasty beasts” are ready for the great pumpkin derby @MCBDartmouth. Check out our pumpkin with a Mighty Mouse, a Yeasty Beast, and the five flags of the countries represented in the lab.
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Check out our new preprint!
Aneuploidy of Specific Chromosomes is Beneficial to Cells Lacking Spindle Checkpoint Protein Bub3 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_cellbio
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Justin Kumar retweeted
“It’s All About Momentum – Writing Effectively and Productively Amidst a Busy Life” by @Corrine_A_Kumar via @SFWA #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips #amwritingscifi mvnt.us/m1430190
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Welcome to our ISURE summer students from Ghana, Ecuador, and St. Lucia. I am so grateful to be able to grow this program with the amazing support at Dartmouth and with a new co-director, Esteban Orellana. @DartmouthBCB @MsbDartmouth @DartBioMT
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Check out my dispatch, highlighting three great articles on how Mps1 and Dam1 have a shared binding site at the budding yeast kinetochore. Articles from Westermann/ @AndreaMusacchi1, Miller, and Harrison groups. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jCED…
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Do you work on chromosome biology and cell cycle in yeast? Join us for an exciting meeting! web.cvent.com/event/f0c82874… Please RT
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Welcome to Soni Lacefield, Professor, Dartmouth -- named a 2023 ASCB Fellow! Congratulations! ascb.org/society-news/ninete… @LacefieldLab @dartmouth
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Next on BAMM 2023 is @LacefieldLab telling us about temporal regulation of meiotic exit! #BAMM #Meiosis #Mitosis – at New Haven, CT
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The deadline to apply to CSHL Yeast Genetics and Genomics is April 1. We have an excellent line up of speakers and experiments! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.as…
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Justin Kumar retweeted
Worley lab @uvabio is looking to hire a lab tech 🔬🪰🧪 to study regeneration in Drosophila! Please check out the webpage (worleylab.org) and see the job postings if interested! (tech 1 and tech 2 levels) jobs.virginia.edu/jobs/R0044… jobs.virginia.edu/jobs/R0044…
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Vision science peeps - can you RT? @BWJones @EyeDaisyShu @VijaykrishnaRag @pete_the_teapot @dr_bjcarr @surgeonretina @LatorreLab @AOIPLab @ShyamRaji @FlyEyeLab @RatnapriyaRinki @GilhooleyMJ @schalleklab @GeoMichalis @kdleviste @ChoroidLab @EdmundTsuiMD @WertLaboratory @CuiLab
Postdoc in 👁 using 🐒 & other animal models @ucdavis. We do translational, collaborative, interdisciplinary, team science in an anti-racist lab. A 🧵. covsl.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ #sciencejobs #AcademicTwitter #postdocjobs #science #PhD #AcademicJobs @ucdavisvetmed @ucd_eyecenter
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Thanks for the highlight of our work @yeastgenome! Yeast Show No Fear of Commitment | SGD: yeastgenome.org/blog/yeast-s…
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Professor Lacefield 😻!
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Registration is up for the FASEB Yeast Chromosome and Cell Cycle Conference in July. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers. Join us! #YCB2022 faseb.org/meetings-and-event…
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Thanks for the highlight @JCellBiol!
📄 “The mitotic exit network regulates the spatiotemporal activity of Cdc42 to maintain cell size” by Soni Lacefield @LacefieldLab @iubiology @GCDB_IU & colleagues: bit.ly/3LpUjXX Check out Dr. Lacefield's research: bit.ly/3GTV1cR #February11 #WomenInScience
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Our paper is now out in eLife - topic? A mechanochemical process that generates the regular triangular grid of photoreceptor clusters in the compound eye. It reinforces for me the importance of imaging the dynamics of a system as it lives.
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We are deeply saddened about the unexpected death of Alois Hofbauer. Alois was active at the chair for many years and was an extremely valued colleague. Together with Erich Buchner, he discovered the Hofbauer-Buchner eyelet (an important circadian photoreceptor in Drosophila)...
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The Lacefield Lab is searching for a research technician working on meiotic regulation. Please apply! Please retweet. jobrxiv.org/job/lacefield-la…