People
Dave Wynne - wynned@up.edu
Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Portland
The Wynne Lab is a "cell fusion" of two lineages of C. elegans researchers!
One of the breakthroughs that first made C. elegans an amazing system to study all kinds of biological processes was the cell lineage assembles by John Sulston and colleagues. It's a map of every single cell division (well, ok, just the somatic cells) during development (see below., or check out the lineages in detail at Wormatlas: https://www.wormatlas.org/celllineages.html)
Don't forget about the Postdoc!
While worms are great and all, it's not ALWAYS about the worms. Dr. Wynne took a break from C. elegans during his postdoctoral work in Dr. Hiro Funabiki's lab at The Rockefeller University in Manhattan, which primarily uses Xenopus egg extracts to study chromosome-bound proteins.
Check out this review to know more about cool things you can do with Xenopus extracts (French and Straight 2017).
In an homage to the groundbreaking C. elegans cell lineage, the good folks at Wormbase made a tool where researchers using C. elegans can trace their "intellectual lineage" based on the lab(s) where they did their training, all the way back to Sydney Brenner himself. (If you're a "worm person", go try it! https://wormbase.org/resources/person/ and hit the "Lineage" link on the left side).
Dr. Wynne first started working with C. elegans as an undergraduate at Amherst College in the lab of Dr. Caroline Goutte, who is a "descendent" of the Sulston lab. Dr. Wynne then went to UC Berkeley as a graduate student where he worked in Dr. Abby Dernburg's lab, who "descends" from the germline/chromosome/meiosis lineage started by Dr. Barbara Meyer and Dr. Anne Villenuve.
Current Members (updated 9/30/22)
Hannah Monti '23 (Biology & Philosophy majors)
Erin Slaney '23 (Biology major)
Past Members (updated 2/25/22)
If you are an alum and your info is out of date, please send some updated info!
Anna Dang '25 (Biology major)
Ethan Hagmann '23 (Biology major) currently conduction neuroscience research with Dr. Angela Ozburn, OHSU/VA Portland
Madison Stanaway '22 (winner of the John Van Zytveld Award in the Life Sciences for her presentation at the 2021 Murdock College Science Research Conference, go Madison!!) - Clinical Research Assistant, Department of Nephrology, OHSU.
Isaac Reinhard '22 - Clinical Research Assistant, OHSU
Lane Witkowski '22 - TBD
Jommel Macaraeg '21 - Research Assistant, Braun Lab, Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute. *already a co-author on a paper that has been submitted from his new lab, go Jommel!!
Danielle Carmeci '21 - Gap year while applying to med schools (go Danielle!!) - taking classes, shadowing, volunteering
Ethan Jones '21 - M.D. Candidate, University of Washington
Matthew Ward '20 - M.D. Candidate, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Nicolai Apenes '20 - PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania Immunology Graduate Group (IGG), former Postbaccalaureate researcher through the IRTA program at the National Institutes of Health
Amy Moore '20 - Health Aid. (winner first-place prize in the cell and molecular biology category for her poster presentation at the 2020 Oregon Academy of Science/Sigma Xi Research Symposium)
Rachael Aber '19 - PhD candidate, Dalziel Lab, Oregon State University Department of Integrative Biology
Adria Bowles '19 - M.D. Candidate, University of California, San Francisco
Katherine Brown '19 - (send me info please!)
Ryan Campbell - Manufacturing Technician, Genentech
Abigail Van Vleet '18 - Teacher, Century High School, Hillsboro, OR