The Barr Lab: Lab Photos

July 2011

Congrats to Natalia Morsci for her publication in Current Biology.

Welcome to Dr. Britt Carlson, who is tackling KLP-6 kinesin biophysics as a summer researcher.

June 2011

The Barr lab is getting ready to descend upon UCLA for the 18th International C. elegans Meeting. Postdoc Bob O’Hagan talk in a plenary session and we will present nine posters.

Welcome new lab members Cory Patrick (Genetics undergrad) and Becky Androwski (2011 RU grad, lab technician).

Congratulations to Lenny Haas on his Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

We have successfully renewed our NIH grants aimed at using C. elegans as a model to study autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and nephronophthisis (NPHP). Tune in for our latest discoveries!

August 2010

Welcome new lab members Deanna Devore (Ph.D. program) and Malan Silva (M.S. program).

Dr. Robert O’Hagan received a postdoctoral fellowship award from the NJ Commission on Spinal Cord Research for research on “The NNA-1 Carboxypeptidase and C. elegans Neuroregeneration.”

Dr. Nathan Schroeder received a postdoctoral fellowship award from the USDA for his work on the “Neuronal basis of nictation in arthropod-associated nematodes.”

Julie Maguire (Neuroscience graduate student) recently joined the lab in January 2009. Welcome to the wonderful world of worms.

Young-Kyung Bae successfully defended her thesis and moved to sunny California (Stathopoulos Lab, Caltech). She is evolving into a fly person!

Dr. Nate Schroeder started in August 2008 and is interested in how the environment shapes the nervous system and animal behaviors.

Dr. Robert O’ Hagan started in February 2008 and is studying the TRP polycystins using in situ electrophysiology and molecular genetics. Bob is one of a few scientists in the world who can measure electrical recordings from tiny worm neurons. Go Bob!