Current Members

Suzanne Estes, PI

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Coleman-Hulbert, MS student: Natural variation in metabolic and aging related phenotypes among C. briggsae natural isolates.  Anna was awarded a medal for Outstanding Research (graduate level) by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and International Research Conference (November 2009, The Woodlands, Texas) for her research on Natural Mitochondrial DNA Variation Affects Metabolism and Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans (click here to see poster).

See her recent poster presentation made at the C. elegans Development and Evolution conference in Madison, WI.

 

 

 

  

Skye Klingbeil, MS student: arriving Fall 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kiley Nusbaum, MS student: Mitochondrial physiology and ROS production in C. briggsae natural isolates

 

 

 

 

 

Sam Smith, MS student: The effects of reactive oxygen species on somatic nuclear mutation rates, and senescence in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

 

 

Sara Carvalho, PhD student: Properties and dynamics of mutation in the process of adaptation in C. elegans (primary advisor: Henrique Teotónio, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal)

 

Past Members (& Current Whereabouts)

Huy [hwee] Bui, undergraduate, 2007 McNair Scholar (senior Biology major, PSU)

gene de Haan, post-bac (Biology major, PSU; mom to Butch)

Kathryn Holleran, MST graduate (natural resource scientist, Portland METRO)

Amanda Kelley, undergraduate (PhD student, Buckley lab, Biology, PSU)

Jeremiah Knapp, post-bac: See his recent poster presentation made at the C. elegans Development and Evolution conference (lab technician, Portland VA Medical Center)

Bree Leon, undergraduate (mom to Ryan James)

Sarah Martha, undergraduate (lab technician, Phillips lab, Center for Ecology and Evolution, UO) 

Dr. Catherine Palmer, postdoc (wildlife biologist, USFW; instructor, Biology, PSU)

Kevin Stein, technician (PhD student, Molecular Genetics and Genomics program, Washington Univ.) 

Mandye Woodbury, undergraduate (mom to Storey and Clover)

Honorary Members

Chris Friesen, PhD student, Mason lab, OSU