Back to Whitman Center Whitman Directory Overview 2024 Whitman Fellows 2024 Whitman Scientists Home Groundbreaking Research at the Ůֱ Research Centers Whitman Center Whitman Directory 2024 Whitman Fellows Tess Attenborough University of Glasgow “A single cell atlas of the cercariae, the human-infective aquatic larval stage of Schistosoma mansoni”teresa.attenborough@glasgow.ac.uk L-311/Rawlinson 5/2/2024 - 6/14/2024 9/14/2024 - 10/10/2024 Michael Barresi Smith College “Comparative investigation of CNS development between zebrafish and pygmy zebra octopus”mbarresi@smith.edu R-305/Patel 5/25/2024 - 8/2/2024 Mary Elting North Carolina State University “Toward a biophysical understanding of ultrafast contraction by the unicellular ciiliate Spirostomum ambiguum”mary.elting@ncsu.edu L-110/L-106/Oldenbourg 6/1/2024 - 7/31/2024 Kate Feller Union College “Neurobiological investigation of loom-responsive descending interneurons in the control of mantis shrimp ballistic strikes” kate.feller@gmail.com L-223 6/18/2024 - 8/13/2024 Loyal Goff Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine “Ultra-high throughput characterization of cephalopod brain development at single cell resolution”loyalgoff@jhmi.edu MRC-306/Albertin 5/29/2024 - 7/6/2024 7/28/2024 - 8/31/2024 Mandë Holford City University of New York: Hunter College/AMNH “Innervating Envenomation: Neuronal control of toxin release in cephalopods”mholford@hunter.cuny.edu R-208 6/20/2024 - 8/30/2024 Takato Honda Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Investigation of Evolutionary Origin of Sleep States and State-Specific Neural Representations” takatoh@mit.edu L-113 6/24/2024 - 9/1/2024 Emily Junkins University of California: Santa Barbara “Evolution is Infectious: Phage defense mechanisms as a driver of diversification in microbial aggregates” ejunkins@ucsb.edu L-118F 7/14/2024 - 9/9/2024 Nicole King University of California: Berkeley “Darwin’s Origin of Species viewed through the lens of molecular and cellular biology” nking@berkeley.edu Library Office 8/27/2024 – 9/24/2024 10/8/2024 – 10/21/2024 James Lee Rockefeller University “Transgenic analysis of the novel, arsenic-resistant nematode Tokorhabditis tufae” jlee08@rockefeller.edu L-118D 6/2/2024 – 7/20/2024 Duncan Leitch University of California: Los Angeles “Investigations of sensory system representation in the midbrain"dleitch@ucla.edu R-222 6/9/2024 – 8/18/2024 Peter Lenart Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences “Translational control of oocyte meiosis”plenart@mpinat.mpg.de R-310/312/R-109 6/27/2024 – 8/11/2024 Artur Llobet University of Barcelona "Use of Xenopus tadpoles to study the role of endolysosome dynamics in synaptic remodeling" allobet@ub.edu R-423/NXR 6/21/2024 – 7/28/2024 Emily Mace Columbia University “Studying lymphocyte migration in 3D microenvironments using advanced and low phototoxicity imaging"em3375@cumc.columbia.edu L-219/Library 6/23/2024 - 8/23/2024 Amy Maddox University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Innovative Imaging of Cellular Dynamics”asm@unc.edu L-107 6/19/2024 - 7/26/2024 Jocelyn Malamy University of Chicago “Pre-visit for Whitman Fellowship project - Biotic and abiotic signalling in planula settlement in Clytia and Aurelia” jmalamy@bsd.uchicago.edu L-118B 6/30/2024 - 8/3/2024 4/30/2024 - 5/3/2024 Heather Marlow University of Chicago “Evolution of 3D Genome Folding Mechanisms and Gene Regulatory Strategies in Metazoans” hmarlow@uchicago.edu R-212 7/15/2024 - 9/20/2024 Koen Martens Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences “Ostracods in a changing world”darwinula@gmail.com L-341/Arkhipova 7/15/2024 - 8/15/2024 Brian McDermott Case Western Reserve University “The hair cell mechanotransduction apparatus of cephalopods”bmm30@case.edu L-216 6/16/2024 - 8/24/2024 Drago Milovanovic German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) “Condensate Biology of Synaptic Vesicle Clusters in the Synaptic Boutons of Lamprey” dragomir.milovanovic@dzne.de R-408/Morgan 6/28/2024 - 8/8/2024 Jacob Musser Yale University “The evolutionary origin of synaptic transmission in early animals” jacob.musser@yale.edu L-225/226 7/1/2024 - 8/15/2024 Horst Obenhaus Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience “Investigations of active sleep in cuttlefish and octopuses” hobenhaus@gmail.com R-206 7/2/2024 - 9/10/2024 Tracy Quirk Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College “Examining Salt Marsh Species Interactions and Vegetation Dynamics Across 50 years of Nutrient-Enrichment and Sea-level Rise” tquirk@lsu.edu SB-226 9/1/2024 - 10/31/2024 Trinity College “The evolutionary developmental (Evo-Devo) neurobiology of early stress in niche shifting red-eyed tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) and glass frogs (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni)”sally.seraphin@trincoll.edu R-423/NXR/LB264 5/23/2024 - 8/3/2024 Francois Spitz University of Chicago "Evolution of vertebrate 3D genome regulatory architecture in cyclostomes chondrichthyes and osteichthyes after whole-genome duplications" fspitz@uchicago.edu R-212 7/15/2024 - 9/20/2024 Otakar Strunecky University of South Bohemia “Unraveling the significance of plasmid-coded cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in oceans: a focus on Pseudanabaenales”otakar.strunecky@gmail.com SB-226 4/23/2024 - 6/22/2024 José Vargas-Muñiz Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University “Identifying marine fungi-bacterial interactions and developing genetic tools for marine-derived yeasts”jvm15@vt.edu L-118A 6/25/2024 - 8/14/2024 Jake Warner University of North Carolina Wilmington “Developing Astrangia poculata as a novel model organism for studying evolution and development of hard corals” warnerj@uncw.edu MRC-207/Roberson 7/13/2024 - 8/10/2024 Bob Zeller San Diego State University “Generation of CRIPSR/Cas9 knockouts in Ascidian embryos” rzeller@sdsu.edu R-109 9/1/2024 - 11/10/2024