Tootle Lab Alumni

These are very important members of the lab who have now moved on to work on new projects and adventures.

Nicole Green

Postdoctoral Fellow

Prostaglandin signaling, nuclear actin, and stem cells.

Nicole is an Assistant Professor at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA

Israel Wipf

Graduate Student

Lipid droplet regulation of collective cell migration

Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental PhD

Currently postdoctoral fellow at Mayo Clinic

Samuel Mellentine

Graduate Student

Defining the specific PG signaling pathways regulating border cell migration

Currently a research scientist at Children’s Mercy Kansas City

Hunter Brown

Graduate Student

MS UIowa

Currently employed at IDT

Emily Fox

Graduate Student

Prostaglandin regulation of the invasive, collective border cell migration

PhD Genetics

Currently Service Center Director in the Department of Biology, University of Iowa

Maureen Lamb

Graduate Student

Defining the roles of Fascin in the invasive, collective migration of the border cells

PhD in Molecular Medicine

Currently Co-Director of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center

Dan Kelpsch

Graduate Student

Fascin, nuclear actin, and cancer

PhD in Molecular Medicine

Currently, at DataTecnica LLC

Chris Groen

Graduate Student

Prostaglandins regulate Fascin to control both actin cytoskeletal dynamics and nucleolar structure

Currently, Assistant Professor, Winona State University

Andrew Spracklen

Graduate Student

Prostaglandins temporally regulate actin dynamics

Andrew is currently a lecturer in the Biology Department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst

aspracklen@umass.edu

Anna Ramsey

Research Intern

Anna started as a high school student in the lab, continued to work with the lab during the summers of her undergraduate career, and as a research intern.

Currently she is pursuing her PhD at UTSW

Asha Alla

Research Intern

Currently attending medical school, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine

Sofia Gomez

Research Intern

 

 

Sofia is now in graduate school at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Kate Peregrine

Research Assistant

Bailey Vormezeele

Research Intern

Bailey is currently in medical school

Garrett Kimble

Research Intern

Garrett is currently a graduate student at UTSW in the lab of Dr. Buszczak

Dylane Wineland

Research Intern

Dylane is currently a Genetic Counselor

Kaden Bex

Undergraduate

Jennifer (Jenny) Zeng

Undergraduate

Ellie Nacino

Undergraduate

Jenna Mosnik

Undergraduate

Jocelyn Olivera

Undergraduate

Emma Meador

Undergraduate

Kelsey Anliker

Undergraduate

Nicole Koenigsman

Undergraduate

Jaycee Mandernach

Undergraduate

Noramalina Munira Mohd Nazri

Undergraduate

Haleigh Houston

Undergraduate

Mallory Holub

Undergraduate

Jonathan Wong

Undergraduate

Shelly Miller

Undergraduate

Kenadie Wicks

Undergraduate

Carina Chandlee

Undergraduate

Sweta Sudhir

High-School Student

Danny Liggonegoro

Undergraduate

Aaron Parkinson

Undergraduate

Xiang Chen

Undergraduate

Chad Schuety

Undergraduate

Stephanie Meyer

Undergraduate

Molly Ramsey

High-School Student