Eva-Maria Collins, PhD
Lab Head
Associate Professor of Biology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics
Lab Manager
Christina Rabeler
Lab Manager
For Fun: Hike, Read, Watch Baseball
PostDocs
Rui Wang, PhD
Projects: Hydra Patterning
Danielle Ireland, PhD
Projects: High-throughput screening in planarians
Video Games, Hiking
Graduate Students
Tapan Goel
Projects: Biomechanics in Hydra and Planarians
For Fun: Cook, Read Fiction, Trivia
Undergraduate Students
Ellan Adams
Projects: Hydra Inversion, Planarian Behavior
For Fun: Frisbee, Ice Hockey, Baking
Kevin Bayingana
Projects: Neuroactive Drug Screening
For Fun: Reading novels and Mangas, Watching Movies
Luca Cerbin
Projects: Hydra Inversion, Planarian Behavior
For Fun: Hiking, Video Games, Reading
Sagar Rao
Projects: Neuroactive Drug Screening
For Fun: Reading, Learning Languages
Veronica Bochenek
Projects: Neuroactive Drug Screening
For Fun: Piano, Reading Sci-Fi, Drawing
Zane Meyer
Projects: High-Throughput Screening in Planarians
For Fun: Hiking, Reading Fiction, Climbing
Ziad Sabry and Juju
Projects: Regulation of Planarian Behaviors, Planarian Stem Cell Diversity
For Fun: Ice Hockey, Tennis, Lifting Weights
Maxwell Finkelstein
Projects: Characterization of Novel Planarian Enzymes
For Fun: Foosball, Long Walks, Escootering
Vir Shetty
Projects: Biomechanics in Planarians
For Fun: Reading, Strategy Games
Yeh Seo Jung
Projects: Biomechanics in Hydra
For Fun: Video Games, Gardening, Bopping to Good Tunes
Sara Asgari
Projects: Morphological Analysis of Planarian Flatworms using Machine Learning
For Fun: Reading, Playing Piano, Basketball, Writing
Lab Pets
Ursula
Luna
Molly and Max
Spider
Leia
Pretzel
Tom
Lab Alumni
| Name | University | Major | Position | What They Do Now |
| Olivier Cochet-Escartin | UCSD | N/A | Postdoc | Principal Investigator at Lyon University, France |
| Callen Hyland | UCSD | N/A | Postdoc | Senior Research Scientist at UCSD |
| Daniel Chaiken | Swarthmore College | Mathematics and Computer Science | Undergraduate | Research Associate at the Institute for Defense Analyses |
| Runa | Swarthmore College | Undergraduate | Postbach student, NIH | |
| Haochen Wang | Swarthmore College | Mathematics and Computer Science | Undergraduate | Software Engineer at Google |
| Elizabeth Lanphear | Swarthmore College | Mathematics and Biology | Undergraduate | Clinical Data Analyst at WIRB-Copernicus Group |
| Cassidy Tran | UCSD | Human Biology | Undergraduate | MD student, Washington University School of Medicine |
| Sharon Fu | UCSD | Physiology & Neuroscience | Undergraduate | Nutritional Biology graduate student, UC Davis |
| Alicia Ho | UCSD | Molecular Biology | Undergraduate | Biomedical Sciences graduate student, Mount Sinai |
| Winnie Shi | UCSD | Bioengineering | Undergraduate | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student, Rice University |
| Aryo Jahromi | UCSD | Mechanical Engineering | Undergraduate | Mechanical Engineer, Scientific Applications and Research Associates, Inc |
| Trevor Rowe | UCSD | Physics | Undergraduate | Staff Scientist at QUASAR Federal Systems, Inc |
| Eileen Tsai | UCSD | Microbiology | Undergraduate | MD student, Ohio State University |
| Kelson Kaj | UCSD | Physics | Undergraduate | Physics graduate student, UCSD |
| Jessica Soong | UCSD | Bioengineering | Undergraduate | Robotics graduate student, John Hopkins University |
| Joshua Parzivand | UCSD | Aerospace Engineering | Undergraduate | Law School student at UC Berkeley |
| Arya Dadhania | UCSD | Physiology & Neuroscience | Undergraduate | MD student, University of Illinois College of Medicine |
| Patrick Hayes | UCSD | Computer Science | Undergraduate | |
| Aaron Graham | UCSD | Computer Engineering | Undergraduate | ASML – a lithography company in San Diego |
| Paul Malinowski | UCSD | Physics | Undergraduate | Physics graduate student, U Washington |
| Cindy Khuu | UCSD | Molecular Biology | Undergraduate | Biology graduate student, UC Davis |
| Cambria Neal | UCSD | Molecular Biology | Undergraduate | Omniome Inc. |
| Phuong Truong | UCSD | Structural Engineering | Undergraduate | Mechanical Engineering PhD student, UCSD |
| Mary Tamme | UCSD | Physics and Applied Mathematics | Undergraduate | Quality engineer at NAMSA |
| Jason Carter | UCSD | Undergraduate | MD/PhD student, Stony Brook University | |
| Siqi Zhang | UCSD | Bioengineering | Undergraduate | Senior Engineer at illumina |
| Tiffany Locke | UCSD | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Undergraduate | Senior associate scientist at Pfizer |
| Milena Chakraverti-Wuerthwein | Princeton University | High School | Physics Grad Student, U Chicago |