December 2008

Catherine (Katie) Drerup will join our lab as a post-doctoral scientist in March of 2009. Katie is currently finishing her thesis research at Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program in the laboratory of Dr. Jill Morris.

Hillary MacGraw will start her post-doctoral research in our lab at the end of next spring. Currently, Hillary is a graduate student in the Program of Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Washington in the laboratory of Dr. David Raible. She is scheduled to defend her thesis in the spring of 2009 and she will start her post-doctoral research in our lab shortly thereafter.

December 2007

Maya Culbertson has recently joined our lab. Maya has extensive experience in neuroscience research as well as some experience in zebrafish research. She obtained her B.A. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and her Masters in Forensic Science from National University. Her recent job was at UCSD. Welcome to the lab!

Zachary Lewis graduated from Reed College in 2006 and did his post-graduate fellowship there as well. His thesis research involved studying primordial germ cell differentiation in Threespine Sticklebacks. He won a prestigious Class of '21 award for his thesis research. Big welcome!

November 2007

Thuy Huynh recently joined the lab as a fish facility manager. Thuy brings extensive experience in managing research zebrafish facility. In addition to the degree in Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences (2003) from the University of Washington, he also spent three years helping to maintain University of Washington zebrafish facility shared by four zebrafish labs.