Academic year 2019-2020 Schedule

-- Meetings are at 11:55am on the second Thursday of the month--

-- Titles will be updated as they become available --


Fall 2019

  • October 10th, no meeting

  • November 14th, [J-412, UW Main Campus]

Takuya Kaneko (Moens) - "Topographic Separation of Sensory-Motor Reflex Circuits in the Zebrafish Vagus System"

Michelle Giarmarco (Brockerhoff/Hurley) - "Mitochondrial Dynamics Support Daily Energy Demands in Zebrafish Retina"

  • December 12th, [SLU Campus, E130A]

Lisa Maves - "Identifying new candidate genes for congenital heart defects"

Claire Watson (Kwon) - "Loss of Wnt16 reduces canonical Wnt signaling and enhances growth during appendage regeneration"


Winter 2020

  • January 9th, [J-412, UW Main Campus]

Andrea McQuate (Raible) - "The unique mitochondria of zebrafish lateral line hair cells: what they're good for, and where they come from"

Lauren Saunders (Trapnell) - “Multiplexed, high-resolution phenotyping of zebrafish mutants with scRNA-sequencing”


  • February 13th, [SLU/Hutch]

Jason Stonick (Moens) - "The role of planar cell polarity in guiding commissural interneuron axon development"

Michael Dorrity (Trapnell) - "Identification of stress-sensitive cell lineages during embryonic development using single cell RNA-seq"


  • (Postponed!) March 12th, [J412] - TENTATIVELY RESCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 13th -

Rachel Hutto (Brockerhoff/Hurley) - "Photoreceptor responses to mitochondrial stress"

Mugdha Sathe (Theriot) - "Studying directed migration of primary cells in a zebrafish scale explant”


Spring 2020

  • April 9th, [J-412, UW Main Campus]

Adam Isabella (Moens)

Ivan Cruz (Raible)


  • May 14th, [SLU]

Joyce Tang (Kwon)

Chen Lab member


  • June 11th, [J-412, UW Main Campus]

Eric Peterman (Rasmussen)

Tanya Brown (Rasmussen)

Summer 2020

  • August 13th, [J412] - reschedule from March-

Rachel Hutto (Brockerhoff/Hurley) - "Photoreceptor responses to mitochondrial stress"

Mugdha Sathe (Theriot) - "Studying directed migration of primary cells in a zebrafish scale explant”