Heather Marlow
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Graduate Program Affiliations: Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology (GGSB) and Integrative Biology
Ph.D The University of Hawaii at Manoa
Postdoc European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Flora Plessier
Graduate Student, DRSB
Flora is investigating cell fate specification and determination in the nervous system. Specifically, she characterizes the transcriptional changes that accompany cell fate transitions during neurogenesis. Her work utilizes functional genetics, single-cell transcriptomic technologies and in vivo imaging.
Jenks Hehmeyer
Graduate Student, IB
Jenks is interested in the comparison of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) across taxa as a means of understanding evolutionary changes in organismal complexity. He currently works on applying high-throughput sequencing approaches, in situ hybridization, and transgenic assays to infer GRNs, and to assess their usage within cell types and developing structures. He is interested in how networks are encoded and regulated by the genome, including how 3D genome organization guides gene expression.
Ja‘Marcus Robertson
Graduate Student, DRSB
Ja‘Marcus is studying gene networks in the context of the initiation of regeneration. Many non-vertebrate lineages display extensive regenerative capacities, often re-growing much of the body plan from small fragments.
Sarah Weber
Undergraduate Researcher, Class of 2024
Nicolas Bertuol
Undergraduate Researcher, Class of 2024
Emma Ricks
Undergraduate Researcher, Class of 2025
Aoife Anderson
Undergraduate Researcher, Class of 2024
Former Members
Shinelle Black, Undergraduate Researcher
Helen Robertson, Postdoctoral Researcher
Rebecca Van Kirk, Undergraduate Researcher
Jelena Šćepanović, Masters student at the École Normale Supérieure
Zack Woods, Undergraduate Researcher