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​PI:  John Wallingford                     Chief of Staff:  Rebecca Fitch

Postdocs:
           
Austin Baldwin - Morphogenetic cell movements during neural tube closure.

Kevin Drew - Systematic identification of protein complexes (joint with Edward Marcotte)

        
Robert Huebner - Normal and pathological mechanisms of convergent extension.


Chanjae Lee - Liquid-like organelles in axonemal dyenin assembly; Proteomics of  the Spemann-Mangold Organizer

​Elle Roberson - Genomics of cyclical morphogenesis during the mouse estrous cycle.

Shinuo Weng - Mechanics of convergent extension.



Graduate Students:

Caitlin Devitt - Mechanisms of actin assembly in convergent extension .
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Jaime Hibbard - Mechanisms of IFT in ciliogenesis and ciliopathies.

Mia Konjikusic (w/ Gray Lab, Dell Medical School Pediatrics) - Kinesins, cilia, and developmental disorders

Janelle Leggere (w/ Marcotte Lab) - Biochemistry of the CPLANE complex.

Neftalí Vázquez - Mechanisms of ciliogenesis.



Undergrads:

Natasa Dobras
 - Mechanics of convergent extension

Jeonseo Karen Jung - Novel  CPLANE interactors

Harrison Mark - Morphogenesis and remodeling of the cycle mouse uterus.

Michelle Nguimtsop - Kinesins in motile cilia

​Bill Nyaoga - Mechanics of convergent extension


Sean Smith - CPLANE mutant mice

Technician:


Ngan Kim Tran - Genomics of the female reproductive tract


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Chili Cookoff
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Arcana

Alums:
     

     Sena Sarikaya, Technician, Dan Dickinson Lab, UT Austin
     Juliana Kim, UTSW Medical School
     Ryan Huizar, MD/PhD student, Johns Hopkins
     Fan Tu - Miller Lab, UT Austin
     Mitch Butler - Bear Lab, UNC
     Jakub Sedzinski - Group Leader, DanStem Inst., Copehagen
     Jacqui Tabler - Group Leader,
Max Planck CBG Institute, Dresden
     Heidi Smith - Grant Writer, Michigan State U.
     Michinori Toriyama - Assistant Professor, Nara Inst. of Science and Technology
     Airon Wills -  Visiting Professor, Southwestern University
     Maggie Rigney - Academic Advisor, UT Dept. of Human Ecology
     Chris Rice - UT Medical School, Galveston, Tx.
     Taejoon Kwon - Asst. Prof. UNIST, Ulsan, Korea
     Asako Shindo - Asst. Prof., Nagoya University    
     Hye Ji Cha - Orkin Lab, Harvard
     Eric Brooks - Zallen Lab, Sloan-Kettering
     Mei-I Chung - Hogan Lab, Duke
     Katherine Smith - Bilder Lab, UC, Berkeley
     Sara Peyrot - Seeley Lab, UCSF
     Rebecca Brady - Asst. Prof, Ithaca College
     Sarah LeBoeuf - Felding Lab, Scripps Research Institute
     Srimoyee Ghosh - Sternberg Lab, Caltech
     Phil Abitua - Schier Lab, Harvard 
​     Michael Still, Academy of Oriental Medicine, Austin
     Michelle Le, UT Med School, San Antonio
     Esther Kieserman - Nikon Imaging
     Ryan Gray - Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Texas Dell Medical school
     Tae Joo Park - Asst. Professor, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea
     Emily Herrington - Public Health School, UT Houston
     Heather Scherr - Professor, Lone Star College
     Julie Hayes - Director, ICMB Microscopy Core, UT Austin.
     Avi Ellis - UT, Med School, Ft. Worth 
     Dave Stewart - UT Med School, Houston  







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"Indeed, things show up much more clearly in frogs. . ."
                                                 -Marcello Malpighi,
                                                  Letter to Giovanni Borelli, 1661