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-222  
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
6/21/2023 - 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
10/1/2023 - 10/21/2023
10/29/2023 - 11/11/2023
“Establishing spatial transcriptomics methods in molluscs to understand phagocytosis”

mholford@hunter.cuny.edu      
R-208   
City University of New York: Hunter College       
6/21/2023 - 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”

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           
7/6/2023 - 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”

jnawroth@gmail.com
R-301
Helmholtz Center Munich
8/3/2023 – 9/25/2023
“The role of the olfactory organ in symbiont recruitment in cephalopods”

hobenhaus@gmail.com
R-206 
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU           
7/10/2023 - 8/24/2023     
9/12/2023 - 10/6/2023
“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           
9/18/2023 - 9/29/2023 
“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    
6/30/2023 - 7/23/2023   
“Biophysical regulations of axon morphology and function”