Principal Investigator
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Professor, Department of Cell Biology
President, Society for the Study of Reproduction
Graduate Students
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Postdocs
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Research Technicians
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Undergraduate
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Lab Alumni
Dr. Christopher “Kit” Tillmann, PhD – Faculty Associate: Genetics Department, UW
Dr. Jeannie Karl, PhD – Senior Corporate Counsel: Genentech
Dr. Jenna Schmahl, PhD – Staff Scientist: Therapeutic Target Division, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Jennifer Brennan, PhD – Director – Office of Research: UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Dr. Andrea Ross, PhD – Assistant IT Director for Web Services: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
Dr. Humphrey H-C Yao, PhD – Principal Investigator: Reproductive Developmental Biology Group, NIEHS/NIH
Dr. Leo DiNapoli, PhD – Director: Regulatory Affairs at UCB Pharma
Dr. Douglas Coveney, PhD – Product Manager: Next Generation Staining Platforms, at Leica Microsystems
Dr. Hao Tang, PhD – Biotech
Dr. Yuna Kim, PhD – Post Doctoral Fellow: Magnuson Lab, UNC Chapel Hill
Dr. Matthew Cook, PhD – Executive Director: Gilead Sciences
Dr. Lindsey Barske, PhD – Assistant Professor: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Dr. Jonah Cool, PhD – Project Director, Organovo; Program Officer, Chan Zuckerberg Institute
Dr. Samantha Jameson, PhD, JD – Associate: Tensegrity Law Group LLP
Dr. Steven Munger, PhD – Assistant Professor: The Jackson Laboratory
Dr. Danielle Maatouk, PhD – Assistant Professor: Obstetrics and Gynocology-Reproductive Biology Research – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Tony DeFalco, PhD – Associate Professor: Div. of Reproductive Science, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Dr. Anirudh Natarajan, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow: Lodish Lab – Whitehead Institute
Dr. Ximena Bustamante Marin, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow: Ostrowski Lab – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Michael Czerwinski, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow: Spence Lab, University of Michigan Medical School
Jason Garness – Lab Manager: University of North Carolina
Dr. Yitzu “Liz” Lin, PhD – Postdoctoral Scientist: United Therapeutics Corporation
Dr. Alexandra García-Moreno, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow: Gersbach Lab, Duke University
Dr. Tetsuhiro “Hiro” Yokonishi, MD, PhD – Lecturer: Kawasaki Medical University
Dr. Ceri Weber, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow: Cooper Lab, University of California San Diego
Dr. Victor Ruthig, PhD – Postdoctoral Associate: Lamb Lab, Weill Cornell Medical College
Dr. Corey Bunce, PhD – Postdoctoral Researcher: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI)
Dr. Jennifer McKey, PhD – Assistant Professor: Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Dr. Mahiru Kawano, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
Dr. Dilara N. Anbarci, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow: Hammoud Lab, University of Michigan