Tony
Lassaletta
Tony
is now at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
Ben
Halsey
Ben
is now in Vet School at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary
Medicine.
Nick
Kappas
Fall
1998-Summer 2000
During
Nick's work in the Sible lab he was the primary author of the publication
"Dissection
of the XChk1 signaling pathway in Xenopus laevis embryos".
He
is now a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
He is currently in his third year and is doing his Ph.D. work in Dr.
Victoria
Bautch's lab. Their lab is focused on studying how blood vessels
develop.
One side of the lab uses the mouse model system to study the
initial
patterning of blood vessels in the developing mouse embryo. The
other
side uses embryonic stem (ES) cells derived from mice to study
blood
vessel develpment. Nick's project involves using differentiated ES
cells
that form blood vessels in vitro. These developing vessels can
then
be analyzed via confocal microscopy and time-lapse imaging to study
such
processes as vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. The goal of his
research
is to understand how endothelial cells (the building blocks of
blood
vessels) coordinate the processes of cell division and
morphogenesis
to form a blood vessel.
kappas@email.unc.edu
Billy
Jean Kirk
Summer
1999
Aleisha
Lane
Spring
2000
Jackie
Merrill
Jan-May
2001
Jackie
is now in grad school at University of Alabama.
Michaiah
Parker
Jan
2000-May 2001
Michaiah
got her M.S. in education at Virginia Tech, and is now teaching
Chemistry
and Biology at Virginia Beach High School.
Matt
Petrus
August
1999-May 2002
Matt
got his M.S. in the Sible Lab for his work "Mechanisms of Cell Cycle
Remoding
at the Midblastula Transition during the Development of Xenopus laevisEmbryos".
He
is currently in a neuroscience laboratory at The Genomics Institute of
the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego. The focus of
their lab is to identify
and characterize the molecular processes involved in the perception of
pain, heat, and cold. The Transient Receptor Potential (Trp) channel
families of Trpv, Trpc, and Trpm, along with other potentially related
genes, are believed to be composed of ion channels that are involved in
sensory neuron development and function. Matt is involved in the
molecular characterization of the Trp genes and other related genes.
The research in the lab includes, but is not limited to, the cloning of
the Trp genes, transfections of mammalian cells to investigate the function
of a gene, northern blot analysis, and yeast 2 hybrid assays to investigate
the interaction of proteins from various cDNA libraries with the Trps.
They
hope their work will lead to a better understanding of how we percieve
our environment and to the discovery of novel pain kilIers.
mpetrus@gnf.org
Patrick
Rowe
Spring
1999-2000.
Patrick
is now working on his Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine at Wake Forest.
Pam
Savage
Spring
1999- May 2000
Pam
is currently working on a few different projects at Univeristy of
Massachusetts.
The main project that she is working on is identifying and
characterizing
the initial adherence factor in EHEC as well as defining the role of
NWASP
domains in actin signaling during an EHEC or EPEC (Enteropathogenic E.
coli) infection. She is in the department of Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology under Dr. John Leong, MD Ph.D.
Pamela.Savage@umassmed.edu
Wei
Sha
Jan
2000-August 2002
Wei
got her M.S. in the Sible Lab for her work "Experimental
evidence for
hysteresis
in the cell cycles of Xenopus laevis egg extracts". She
is now a Ph.D.
student
at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. Her experimental
biology experience at the Sible Lab is definitely a big help for her current
research, gene expression data analysis. She is now learning the
other part, mathematics and statistics. Her goal is to become an
expert in bioinformatics!
wsha@vt.edu
Matt
Tormenti
Jan
2000-May 2002.
Matt
is now a med stuedent at Pitt, and has research interest in stem cell therapuetics
for nervous system trauma.
mjt11@pitt.edu
Cristinia
Travers
Jan-Aug
2001
Christinia
is now working in Industry.
(Alan)
Todd Walls
Fall
1998- Summer 1999
Katie
Webb
Summer
2000-2001