Former Lab Members

Research: The regulation of dendrite morphogenesis and complexity

Current Position: Medical Affairs Manager, Azurity Pharmaceuticals

Research and Outreach: The role of axon guidance pathways in non-neuronal tissues, DrosoPHILA High School Outreach

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Randolph Macon College

Research and Outreach: Motor neuron development, DrosoPHILA High School Outreach

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Holy Family University

Research: Regulation of Commissural Axon Guidance in the Developing Mammalian Spinal Cord

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Biology, Hyderabad University

Research: The role of Brain Tumor in regulating axon growth and guidance at the midline.

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Physiology, Aix-Marseille University

Research: Diversification of Robo Receptor Function

Funding: NINDS F32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2009-2011

Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology, University of Arkansas

Research: Transcriptional Regulation of Motor Axon Guidance

Funding: Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2003-2005

Current Position: Associate Professor/Lecturer in Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Research: Robo Receptor Signaling

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Medical School

Thesis Dissertation: The Role of Intracellular Trafficking in Regulating Axon Guidance Receptors During Neuronal Circuit Formation

Funding: NINDS F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Current Position: Graduate Student, Lab of John Murray

Dissertation Title: To Cross or not to Cross: Uncovering Novel Regulators of Axon Guidance at the Midline

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, Mentor: Gywneth Card

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of Axon Guidance Receptor Regulation and Signaling During Midline Crossing

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Mentor: Alex Kolodkin

Thesis Dissertation: Netrin-Independent Frazzled Functions in Oogenesis and Axon Guidance

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Mentor: Eric Lécuyer

Research: Axon Guidance Molecules in intestinal stem cell biology.

Current Position: Transitioning to Data Science/Software Engineering

Thesis Dissertation: Regulation of axon guidance receptor expression and activity during neuronal morphogenesis

Funding: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2012-2015

Current Position: Principal Scientist, Institute for Protein Innovation

Louis Flexner Neuroscience Thesis Prize Awarded 2016

Tom Kadesch Genetics Thesis Prize Awarded 2016

Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Cell and Molecular Biology Awarded 2017

Thesis Dissertation: Sema-1a reverse signaling promotes midline crossing in response to secreted Semaphorins

Funding: NINDS F31 Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013-2015

Current Position: Technical Sales Specialist, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thesis Dissertation: Between Slit and repulsion: cell and molecular mechanisms underlying Robo-mediated midline guidance

Funding: NINDS F31 Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2013

Current Position: Scientific Project Manager · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Thesis Dissertation: The intracellular domain of the Frazzled/DCC receptor is a transcription factor required for commissural axon guidance

Funding: T32 Training Program in Genetics

Awards: AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow

Current Position: Law Student, Georgetown University

Thesis Dissertation: Signal transduction mechanisms in commissural axon guidance: the role of intracellular tyrosine kinases in Netrin-DCC/Frazzled axon attraction

Funding: T32 Training Program in Developmental Biology

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University

Thesis Dissertation: Proteolytic processing of the guidance receptor Roundabout regulates its activity

Funding: T32 Training Program in Developmental Biology

Current Position: Veterinarian, Co-Owner Art Museum Veterinary Center, Philadelphia

Thesis Dissertation: Slit down-regulates CrGAP function to mediate axon repulsion in the embryonic Drosophila CNS

Current Position: Science Exchange Officer, Chinese Academy of Science

Thesis Dissertation: Regulation of Robo-mediated axon repulsion at the Drosophila Midline

Louis Flexner Neuroscience Thesis Prize Awarded 2009

Current Position: Staff Physician & Partner in Pathology, Carroll Hospital Center

Thesis Dissertation: Integration and regulation of attractive and repulsive axon guidance at the Drosophila Midline

Funding: T32 Training Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, T32 Training Program in Genetics

Current Position: Philadelphia Education Fund, Director of the McKinney Center for STEM Education

2014-2016

Research: Genetic Screens for factors that promote axon growth across the midline

Current Position: Graduate Student, Bixby Lab, University of Miami

2016-2019

Research: The role of microtubule binding proteins during axon guidance at the midline

Current Position: Graduate School bound!

2015-2017

Research: The control of midline axon guidance by transmembrane and secreted Semaphorins.

Current Position: Graduate Student in Neuroscience, UCLA

2016-2018

Research: The control of midline axon guidance by TAP, the Drosophila homolog of Neurogenin.

Current Position: Medical Student, Columbia University