Current Lab Members

Michelle Giedt

Assistant Research Scientist

Uncovering the connections between lipid droplet proteins, prostaglandins and actin remodeling

michelle-giedt@uiowa.edu

Danielle Talbot

Postdoctoral Fellow

Functions and regulation of nuclear actin

Prior: Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student

danielle-talbot@uiowa.edu

Ashley Goll

Graduate Student

Nuclear architecture changes required for invasive, collective cell migration

Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student

ashley-goll@uiowa.edu

Israel Wipf

Graduate Student

Lipid droplet regulation of prostaglandin signaling

Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental PhD student

israel-wipf@uiowa.edu

Jie Li

Graduate Student

Uncovering the roles of GstS1 during oogenesis

Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student

jie-li@uiowa.edu

Emma Lowden

Graduate Student

Extracellular matrix in border cell migration.

Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student

emma-lowden@uiowa.edu

Sadia Islam Mou

Graduate Student

Prostaglandin signaling during border cell migration

Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student

sadia-islammou@uiowa.edu

Anna Ramsey

Research Intern

Characterizing nucleolar compartmentalization within the Drosophila nurse cells and the roles of nuclear actin in regulating the nucleolus.

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

Asha Alla

Research Intern

Nuclear Actin Team

Asha started in the lab as an undergraduate and is now working half-time in the lab as a research intern.

Kaden Bex

Undergraduate

Uncovering the role of the LINC Complex during collective cell migration

Sean Strand

Undergraduate

Fascin regulation of the nucleoskeleton during border cell migration

Kennedy Godfredsen

Undergraduate

Lipid droplet proteins in border cell migration

Julia Dorale

Undergraduate

ECM in border cell migration