People

Principal Investigator

Administrative assistant

Post-docs

  • Rosie Alegado, Molecular basis of bacterial-dependent induction of choanoflagellate colony development
  • Emina Begovic, Regulation of Salpingoeca rosetta colony development
  • Pawel Burkhardt, Insights into the origin of a postsynaptic scaffold

Graduate students

  • Kayley Hake
  • Tera Levin, The genetic basis of colony development in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta
  • Daniel Richter, Ancestral genome reconstruction and the evolution of sex in animals
  • Laura Wetzel
  • Arielle Woznica

Undergraduates

  • Vika Betin, Environmental influences on choanoflagellate growth and life history
  • Parinaz Fozouni, Preparation of diverse choanoflagellate species for transcriptome sequencing
  • Allie Greaney, Developing a genetic screen for S. rosetta mutants in the rosette-formation pathway
  • Tara Sulur, Postsynaptic scaffold protein homologs in choanoflagellates

Lab Alumni

  • Monika Abedin (Post-doc with Jeremy Reiter, Department of Biochemistry, UCSF)
  • Jenice Arevelo (Masters student in Genetic Counseling, UC Irvine)
  • Candace Britton (Graduate student, UCSF)
  • Mark Dayel (Architect at Theranos)
  • Nicolas Derr (Research Assistant, Amacher lab, Ohio State University)
  • Stephen Fairclough (Post-doc with Dan Rokhsar, JGI/DOE)
  • Blake Geppert
  • Sherri Huang (MD/PhD student, Indiana University)
  • 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 (Graduate student, MIT)
  • Andrea Morris (Graduate student, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, U of Michigan)
  • Jeremy Mosher (Enzymology Research Associate at Pacific Biosciences)
  • Scott Nichols (Assistant Professor, University of Denver)
  • 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 (Science Writer, MIT Tech Review)
  • Rick Zuzow (Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University)