Choanoflagellates and the origin of animals
Principal Investigator
Post-docs
- Rosie Alegado, Molecular basis of bacterial-dependent induction of choanoflagellate colonies
- Emina Begovic, Regulation of Salpingoeca rosetta colony development
- Pawel Burkhardt, Insights into the origin of a postsynaptic scaffold
- Stephen Fairclough, Cellular and molecular basis of choanoflagellate colony formation
Graduate students
- Tera Levin, Developing choanoflagellate genetic manipulation
- Daniel Richter, Ancestral genome reconstruction and the evolution of sex in animals
Undergraduates
- Vika Betin
- Parinaz Fozouni, Preparation of diverse choanoflagellate species for transcriptome sequencing
- Allie Greaney
- Tara Sulur, Postsynaptic scaffold protein homologs in choanoflagellates
Research Assistant
- Candace Britton, Development of transgenic techniques in choanoflagellates
Visitors
- Scott Nichols (Assistant Research Professor, University of Denver)
Lab Alumni
- Monika Abedin (Post-doc with Jeremy Reiter, Department of Biochemistry, UCSF)
- Mark Dayel (Architect at Theranos)
- Nicolas Derr (Undergraduate, UC Berkeley)
- Sherri Huang (2009 B.A. in Biology, Wash U. — now a medical school student)
- Kord Kober (Graduate student, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz)
- Tracy LaGrassa (Intellectual Property Legal Intern at Jones Day, NY and Fordham Law School student)
- Jess Lyons (Graduate student, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley)
- Jen Halbleib (Law School Student, Stanford University)
- Conor McClune (Undergraduate, UC Berkeley)
- Andrea Morris (Graduate student, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, U of Michigan)
- Jeremy Mosher (Enzymology Research Associate at Pacific Biosciences)
- KC Payne (Undergraduate, UC Berkeley)
- Brock Roberts (Graduate student, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley)
- Kai Zhang (Undergraduate, University of Utah)
- Rachel Ross (Undergraduate, UC Berkeley)
- Alison Sweeney (Post-doc, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara)
- Jody Westbrook (Scientist, Locus Development)
- Susan Young (UCSC Science Communication Program)
- Rick Zuzow (Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University)