Current Research
Cell Migration and Invasion

I am investigating the role of the cell cycle and cytoskeleton in cell migration during C.elegans development and am working to expand to zebrafish.
Listen to my talk here:
labroots Cell & Developmental Biology Virtual Meeting
Check out our recent publication using a cell cycle state biosensor in C.elegans and zebrafish!
Visualizing the metazoan proliferation-differentiation decision in vivo
During my postdoc, in collaboration with Dr. Ryan Kerney Dr. Solange Dumel and Dr. John Burns
with support from the Moore Foundation l
I investigated algal invasion in the spotted salamander embryo.
More about the project here: https://bit.ly/2vcAWyB
and https://www.wired.com/2011/04/symbiotic-salamander/