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Eva-Maria Collins, PhD
Lab Head
Associate Professor of Biology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics
Lab Manager
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Christina Rabeler
Lab Manager
For Fun: Hike, Read, Watch Baseball
PostDocs
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Rui Wang, PhD
Projects: Hydra Patterning
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Danielle Ireland, PhD
Projects: High-throughput screening in planarians
Video Games, Hiking
Graduate Students
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Tapan Goel
Projects: Biomechanics in Hydra and Planarians
For Fun: Cook, Read Fiction, Trivia
Undergraduate Students
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Ellan Adams
Projects: Hydra Inversion, Planarian Behavior
For Fun: Frisbee, Ice Hockey, Baking
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Kevin Bayingana
Projects: Neuroactive Drug Screening
For Fun: Reading novels and Mangas, Watching Movies
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Luca Cerbin
Projects: Hydra Inversion, Planarian Behavior
For Fun: Hiking, Video Games, Reading
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Sagar Rao
Projects: Neuroactive Drug Screening
For Fun: Reading, Learning Languages
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Veronica Bochenek
Projects: Neuroactive Drug Screening
For Fun: Piano, Reading Sci-Fi, Drawing
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Zane Meyer
Projects: High-Throughput Screening in Planarians
For Fun: Hiking, Reading Fiction, Climbing
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Ziad Sabry and Juju
Projects: Regulation of Planarian Behaviors, Planarian Stem Cell Diversity
For Fun: Ice Hockey, Tennis, Lifting Weights
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Maxwell Finkelstein
Projects: Characterization of Novel Planarian Enzymes
For Fun: Foosball, Long Walks, Escootering
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Vir Shetty
Projects: Biomechanics in Planarians
For Fun: Reading, Strategy Games
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Yeh Seo Jung
Projects: Biomechanics in Hydra
For Fun: Video Games, Gardening, Bopping to Good Tunes
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Sara Asgari
Projects: Morphological Analysis of Planarian Flatworms using Machine Learning
For Fun: Reading, Playing Piano, Basketball, Writing
Lab Pets
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Ursula
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Luna
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Molly and Max
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Spider
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Leia
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Pretzel
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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 |