Olive Lucanish joined our lab in the spring of 2022 and is graduating this year (2025). Olive has provided us with major insights into how the limb tissue of Xenopus is initated and how it is different from amniotes. Olive’s work was presented at NESDB in April.

Alisa Luchitskaya joined the lab in 2023 and has since been investigating the differences of human and frog cereblon and its interation with Thalidomide. She has further looked at potential interactions with Wnt-signaling. Alisa presented this work at NESDB in April and will be graduating in May 2025.

Hamnah Shazli joined us in 2024 to work on a project looking into cereblon and thalidomide. She is interested in neurons, how they develop and how they might be affected by thalidomide treatment. Hamnah presented her work at NESDB in April and will be graduating in May 2025

Quynh Nguyen joined the lab in the Fall of 2023 and has been developing many cloning methods and microsurgery techniques to determine how Hox genes position limb buds in anurans.

Nora Richmond Joined our lab in the fall of 2023 and has been investigating the embryonic origin of PFOS induced tumor cells.

Moe Kast recently joined the lab and is interested in cereblon and Thalidomide.

Anna Ng joined our group in the Fall of 2024. She is interested in determining how frog tabpoles generate limb buds.

Terry Wu joined the lab in Fall of 2024. Terry is working on determining the UV protection effect of maternally deposited pigment. Terry is also working on limb bud lineage tracing and is an amazing artist!

Samantha Panneton Joined our lab in 2024 and is interested in sharks and evolution. Hopefully she’ll find the frog somewhat curious. She is looking into the timing of limb formation in Xenopus.