Lab Team
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Michael Dorrity
Group Leader
Wondering how temperature is sensed in different cell types. Wandering the forest looking for pfifferling. -
Joergen Benjaminsen
Postdoc (joint with Wittbrodt group, COS)
Studying the effects of elevated temperatures on retinal development in Medaka and Zebrafish to understand how complex systems scale, achieve robustness, or fail under stress. The rest of the time he will be reading history, philosophy and playing fetch with his dog. -
Santiago Herrera-Alvarez
Postdoc (joint with Crocker group)
Integrating experimental data to understand how phenotypic information flows across genetic, biochemical, and cellular levels. Outside the lab, he enjoys reading, watching movies, hiking, exploring the city, and playing guitar. -
Christabel Bucao
Postdoc
Studying how phenotypic variability propagates across molecular, cellular, and organismal scales over zebrafish development. She writes poetry and loves a good karaoke. -
Bettina Welz
Postdoc
Studying how wild-derived medaka strains, adapted to different climates, adjust gene expression across cell types and developmental stages to cope with temperature changes. In her free time, she goes hiking, hunts for treasures at secondhand markets, or gears up for her next board game victory. -
Mantha Lamprousi
PhD Student
Investigating disruption of proteostasis during zebrafish development using CRISPR and sci-RNA-seq. Spends free time salsa dancing, baking and hiking. -
Jess Bourn
PhD Student
Using mutational screens to study how transcription factor stability affects development in zebrafish. If you can't find her at work, she is either at gymnastics training or lying outside in the sun. -
Gaurav Vaidya
PhD Student (joint with Vu group)
Planarian wrangler trying to understand the mechanism of temperature-dependent reproductive switching using scRNAseq. Apart from science, likes football, gaming and is a coffee head. -
Vesta Petrašiūnaitė
PhD Student
Single cell chromatin accessibility profiling to understand developmental robustness, responsible for the art that goes onto the lab door. Avid birder, language learner and hiker. -
Sophie Kneeshaw
Lab Officer
Method development in single-cell genomics. Outside the lab, enjoys reading, walking, and of course, plants. -
Cem Seyda
Scientific Trainee
Performing cloning and microinjections to create transgenics to study temperature-sensing pathways in zebrafish development. Outside science, it’s riverside walks and reggaeton on repeat.
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Karishma Behera
Research Intern
Investigating the effect of temperature changes on collagen synthesis dynamics in zebrafish notochord. Outside the lab, she enjoys exploring new ice-cream flavours with friends. -
Will Kellas
Research Intern
Using click chemistry techniques to understand how temperature is affecting DNA replication, RNA turnover and protein synthesis in Medaka and Zebrafish embryos throughout development. Other times he’ll likely be climbing, maybe reading, or sitting very still. -
Eila
Source of infinite energy. Obsessed with fetch.
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Previous Lab Members
Marie Becker
Eric Laudemann
Aishwarya Girish
Augustin Auvergne
Marjane Habibi
Deep Patel