POSTDOCS

Coral is interested in how chromosome architecture is regulated throughout the cell cycle and during development.

coral.zhou@berkeley.edu

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

xiao.liu@berkeley.edu

Clotilde did her PhD on cell size homeostasis in cultured animal cells. She is now investigating the consequences of ploidy on cell size and growth in Xenopus embryos.

clotilde.cadart@berkeley.edu

 

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

helena.cantwell@berkeley.edu

 


Mina is a joint postdoc between the Heald and Bustamante labs working at the interface of in vitro cell biology and single-molecule biophysics.

m-sun@berkeley.edu

 


GRADUATE STUDENTS

Kelly is broadly interested in mechanisms of cell division and size control in amphibians, most recently using the small pipid Hymenochirus boettgeri.

kellym@berkeley.edu

Maiko studies mitosis and size scaling in Xenopus borealis using hybrid embryos and in vitro approaches.

mkitaoka@berkeley.edu

Lupe is interested in the molecular basis of spindle morphology among different species and in human cancers.

guadalupe_sepulveda@berkeley.edu

LAB MANAGER

martinliu771@berkeley.edu

BIOINFORMATICS MANAGER

cerikison@berkeley.edu

LAB ALUMNI

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) - Assistant 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

 

 

 

 

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