Principal Investigator
Post-docs
- Rosie Alegado, Molecular basis of bacterial-dependent induction of choanoflagellate colonies
- Mark Dayel, Origins of animal cell-substrate and cell-cell interactions
- Jen Halbleib, Evolution of primary cilia as signaling structures
- Scott Nichols, Functional evolution of the gene beta-catenin
Graduate students
- Monika Abedin, Characterizing the structure and function of choanoflagellate cadherins
- Stephen Fairclough, Cellular and molecular basis of choanoflagellate colony formation
- Daniel Richter, The evolution of sex in animals
- Jody Westbrook, Gene structure and alternative splicing in Monosiga brevicollis
- Susan Young, The role of transcriptional regulation in the origin of animals
Undergraduate
Lab Alumni
- 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)
- Andrea Morris (Graduate student, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, U of Michigan)
- Alison Sweeney (Post-doc, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara)
- Rick Zuzow (Research Assistant, O’Shea lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University)