Lab Team

  • Michael Dorrity

    Group Leader

    Wondering how temperature is sensed in different cell types. Wandering the forest looking for pfifferling.

  • 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 lab)

    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.

  • Sophie Kneeshaw

    Lab Officer

    Method development in single-cell genomics, keeper of many fishes. Combinatorial indexer.

  • 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.

  • Cem Seyda

    Research Intern

    Performing cloning and microinjections using for transgenesis to study temperature-sensing pathways in zebrafish development.

  • Joergen Benjaminsen

    Postdoc

    I'm 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 I read history, philosophy and play fetch with my dog.

  • Augustin Auvergne

    Research Intern

    Exploring how elevated temperatures impact developmental robustness in zebrafish embryos. Combining CRISPR-based genetic tools with imaging and phenotypic analysis to uncover gene–environment interactions during early development.

  • Karishma Behera

    Research Intern

    Investigating the effect of temperature changes on collagen synthesis dynamics in zebrafish notochord. Outside the lab, I enjoy exploring new ice-creams with friends.

  • Santiago Herrera-Alvarez

    Postdoc

    I'm integrating experimental data to understand how phenotypic information flows across genetic, biochemical, and cellular levels. Outside the lab, I enjoy reading, watching movies, hiking, exploring the city, and playing guitar.

  • Deep Patel

    Research Intern

    Working on integration of medaka strains and developement of medaka atlas project and find him either jogging or exploring cities or working on his laptop!

  • Eila

    Source of infinite energy. Obsessed with fetch.

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Previous Lab Members

Marie Becker
Eric Laudemann