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Michelle Giedt
Assistant Research Scientist
Uncovering the connections between lipid droplet proteins, prostaglandins and actin remodeling
Samuel Mellentine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Defining the specific PG signaling pathways regulating border cell migration
Prior Genetics PhD student
Danielle Talbot
Graduate Student
Functions and regulation of nuclear actin
Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student
Ashley Goll
Graduate Student
Nuclear architecture changes required for invasive, collective cell migration
Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student
Israel Wipf
Graduate Student
Lipid droplet regulation of prostaglandin signaling
Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental PhD student
Jie Li
Graduate Student
Uncovering the roles of GstS1 during oogenesis
Biomedical Sciences: Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student
Hunter Brown
Graduate Student
Defining the roles of Akr1B during border cell migration
Genetics PhD student
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
Jennifer (Jenny) Zeng
Undergraduate
Honors Research: Identifying actin binding proteins that regulate the nucleolus and nuclear actin
Molly Ramsey
High-School Student
Lipid Droplet Team
