2023 Whitman Fellows

aziz.aboobaker@zoo.ox.ac.uk
R-305/Patel
University of Oxford
7/12/2023 - 8/20/2023
“Inside the 8-ball, mechanisms of cell fate specification in the marine amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis”

sebastian.alvarado@qc.cuny.edu
R-212
City University of New York: Queens College
9/1/2023 - 11/10/2023
“Integration of molecular, cellular, and behavioral substrates of defensive camouflage in the hummingbird bobtail squid”

david.booth@ucsf.edu
L-220
University of California: San Francisco
6/27/2023 - 9/4/2023
“Establishing the ecological functions of choanoflagellates in microbial communities that surround red algal seaweeds”

memerson@ccny.cuny.edu
L-118D
City University of New York: City College
6/15/2023 - 8/24/2023 |
“Photoreceptor and horizontal cell genesis in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea”

jgoodheart@amnh.org
L-311/Rawlinson Lab
American Museum of Natural History
4/30/2023 - 6/3/2023
9/10/2023 - 10/14/2023
“Establishing spatial transcriptomics methods in molluscs to understand phagocytosis”

mholford@hunter.cuny.edu
R-208
City University of New York: Hunter College
6/23/2023 - 9/1/2023
“Out of the Sea and Into the Well: Developing Model Systems for Venom Evolution and Development in Marine Mollusks”

leon.islas@gmail.com
MRC-306/Roberson
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
7/16/2023 - 8/16/2023
“Application of fluorescence microscopy to understand the regulation of pH and calcification in the coral Astrangia poculata.”

ejunkins@ucsb.edu
L-114
UC Santa Barbara
7/1/2023 - 8/30/2023
“Evolution is Infectious: Co-evolutionary Dynamics Between Marine Microbial Aggregates and Bacteriophage”

samlewis@berkeley.edu
L-313/Morrison Lab
University of California: Berkeley
7/1/2023 - 8/31/2023
“Mycoplankton as a model of organelle viromics: discovery of marine mitochondrial viruses”

kristina.lippmann@gmail.com
L-223
Medical Faculty, Leipzig University
6/12/2023 - 8/20/2023
“Structural correlates of short-term facilitation at a cortical synapse”

allobet@ub.edu
R-423/NXR
University of Barcelona
6/26/2023 - 7/31/2023
“Characterization of Xenopus tropicalis mutant lines reproducing lysosomal storage disorders”

em3375@cumc.columbia.edu
L-118 Columbia University
7/2/2023 - 9/9/2023
“Understanding the significance of the glycocalyx in lymphocyte migration in 3D microenvironments using advanced and low phototoxicity imaging”

asm@unc.edu
L-107
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6/20/2023 - 7/25/2023
“Cell and Developmental Ultrastructure and Dynamics”

vgmartin@uiwtx.edu
L-104/105
University of the Incarnate Word
6/9/2023 - 8/18/2023
“Myelin-like sheathing and Neural Regeneration in Lumbriculus”

mjmccoy@stanford.edu
R-212
Stanford University
5/22/2023 - 6/29/2023
“The role of gene complexity in cephalopod development”

bmm30@case.edu
L-216
Case Western Reserve University
7/3/2023 - 9/5/2023
“Molecules of the hair cell mechanotransduction apparatus of Euprymna berryi”

dragomir.milovanovic@dzne.de
R-408/Morgan Lab
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
6/20/2023 - 8/3/2023
“Condensate Biology of Synaptic Vesicle Clusters in the Synaptic Boutons of Lamprey”

hobenhaus@gmail.com
R-206
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU
7/1/2023 - 9/8/2023
“Sleep replay and its relation to learning and memory in cephalopods”

yuan.ren@yale.edu
L-219
Yale University
5/21/2023 - 7/22/2023
“Direct measurement of the gating force of the mechanosensitive channel TRP-4 in vivo”

ischoen@naturalsciences.be
L-341/Arkhipova Lab
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
4/26/2023 - 5/16/2023
7/19/2023 - 8/16/2023
“Further developing ostracods as emerging aquatic model organisms for evolutionary and biological research”

sally.seraphin@trincoll.edu
R-423/NXR
Trinity College
5/22/2023 - 7/30/2023
“Stress and the evolutionary neurobiological mechanisms of developmental timing in neotropical frog models of early childhood adversity”

prashant.sharma@wisc.edu
R-305/Patel
University of Wisconsin-Madison
9/1/2023 - 10/15/2023
“Establishing advanced functional toolkits for developmental genetic study of arachnids”

jose.vargasmuniz@siu.edu
L-118A Southern Illinois University Carbondale
6/26/2023 - 8/13/2023
“Characterizing the mycobiome of sea squirt and developing genetic tools for marine-derived yeasts”

g.veenstra@science.ru.nl
R-423/NXR
Radboud University
5/29/2023 - 7/8/2023
“Evolution and development of cardiac cell types”

caroline.vissers@ucsf.edu
L-118F
University of California: San Francisco
7/16/2023 - 9/26/2023
“Regulation of cephalopod neural development by m6A RNA methylation”

shigeki.watanabe@jhmi.edu
L-106
Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine
6/5/2023 - 7/23/2023
“Biophysical regulations of axon morphology and function”