In February 2020, graduate student Akela Kuwahara presented her exit seminar to complete her Ph.D requirments! Akela joined the Bush lab in 2017 and accomplished a tremendous amount related to understanding of tracheal and esophageal cell fate specification, leading to a first-author publication in elife and a second-author publication in Cell Reports Akela took a position at Gordian Biotechnology where she will utilize her expertise in single cell sequencing to develop gene therapies for diseases of aging.