Rebecca Heald

Professor; Flora Lamson Hewlett Chair in Biochemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Postdocs 

Alex Lessenger

lessenga@berkeley.edu

Alex is interested in how oocytes grow to their enormous size with only 4 copies of the genome.

Anu Mukherjee

a.mukherjee@berkeley.edu

Anu is interested in investigating the mechanisms that safeguard chromosome segregation during rapid cell divisions in early Xenopus embryos.

Gabe Cavin-Meza

gabe.cavin-meza@berkeley.edu

Gabe is interested in testing the limits of spindle tolerance to polyploidization by utilizing multiple Xenopus species.

Helena Cantwell

helena.cantwell@berkeley.edu

Helena is interested in mechanisms of subcellular size and shape control.

Liliana Piñeros Leyton

liliana.pineros@berkeley.edu

Liliana is interested in investigating the cellular basis of the conserved scaling relationship between the organism’s size and the metabolic rate described in Kleiber’s law.

Xiao Liu

xiao.liu@berkeley.edu

Xiao is interested in how neuron size impacts the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system during development.

Graduate Students 

Cordell Clark

cordell_jc@berkeley.edu

Cordell studies centromere stability and mechanisms ensuring proper chromosome segregation during early embryo development using hybrid frogs.

Khansaa Maar

khansaamaar@berkeley.edu

Research interests coming soon!

Megan Onyundo

monyundo@berkeley.edu

Megan is studying how spindle architecture varies across species, and how those differences impact chromosome segregation.

Undergraduate Students

Aidan Heller

aidanheller@berkeley.edu

Amarisa Gonzalez

ama25@berkeley.edu

Arielle McMullan

ariellemcmullan@berkeley.edu

Heald Lab Alumni

Martin Liu (lab manager) -

Coral Zhou (postdoc) - Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

Guadalupe Sepulveda (graduate student) - Staff Scientist, Stanford 

Clotilde Cadart (postdoc) - Junior Group leader - Institut Cochin

Kelly Miller (graduate student) - BioRad

Maiko Kitaoka (graduate student) - Postdoc, MIT 

Mina Sun (postdoc) - Google

Ambika Nadkrni (postdoc) - Postdoc, Stanford University 

Stephanie Malinich (lab manager) - On-call biologist, Sequoia Ecological Consulting 

Christopher Brownlee (postdoc) - Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University 

Xiao Zhou (postdoc) - Scientific Programmer, Caribou Bioscience 

Romain Gibeaux (postdoc) - CNRS researcher, Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes 

Rachael Acker (undergraduate) - Medical student, Harvard 

Andy Lane (postdoc) - Computational Biologist, Mammoth Diagnostics 

Lauren Slevin (postdoc) - Prenatal Genetic Counselor, Swedish Medical Center Maternal and Fetal Specialty Center, Seattle 

Andrew Grenfell (graduate student), Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota 

Magdalena Strzelecka (postdoc) - Data Scientist, One Logic 

Marina Ellefson Crowder (postdoc) - Assistant Teaching Professor, UC Davis 

Sharon Guo (undergraduate) - Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara 

Matt Good (postdoc) - Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania 

Kara Helmke Rogers (graduate student) - Director, Freshman Research Initiative, UT Austin 

Jeremy Wilbur (postdoc) - Protein and Cellular Biophysicist, Relay Therapeutics 

Evan Whitehead (undergraduate) - Research Assistant, Google-X 

Anne-Lore Schlaitz (postdoc) - Group Leader, University of Heidelberg 

Stephen Bird (graduate student) - Field Applications Scientist, Thermo-Fisher 

Esther Kieserman (postdoc) - Biological Sales Specialist, Nikon 

Blake Riggs (postdoc) - Associate Professor, San Francisco State University 

Daniel Levy (postdoc) - Associate Professor, University of Wyoming 

David Halpin (postdoc) - Paramedic fireman, San Francisco 

Jay Wang (undergraduate) - Opthamologist, Massachusets General Hospital 

Kieren Patel (graduate student) - CEO, Opticent Health 

Jonathan Soderholm (postdoc) - Associate Professor, Yonsei University 

Rose Loughlin (graduate student) - Senior Director, Moderna 

Benjamin Freedman (graduate student) - Assistant Professor, University of Washington 

Petr Kalab (postdoc) - Associate Research Professor, Johns Hopkins 

Eva Hannak (postdoc) - Patent Agent, Morrison [&] Foerster 

Michael Blower (postdoc) - Associate Professor, Mass General Hospital/Harvard 

Aaron Van Hooser (postdoc) - Director of Data Science, Korro Bio 

Tom Maresca (graduate student) - Associate Professor, UMASS Amherst 

Renée Deehan (graduate student) - VP of Computational Biology, QuartzBio 

Sharat Gadde (graduate student) - High School Teacher, Miramonte High School 

Priya Prakash Budde (graduate student) - Senior Foundation and Corporate Relations Officer, Whitehead Institute 

Sadie Wignall (graduate student) - Associate Professor, Northwestern University 

Ahna Skop (postdoc) - Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison