Lab Alumnae

Nancy majored in Biological Sciences at Wellesley and in the Goss Lab worked on characterizing cell wall synthase mutants in fission yeast using Atomic Force Microscopy. Her Senior Honors Thesis was awarded the Lingos Prize from the Wellesley Biology Department. She is currently a laboratory technician with the Young-Pearse laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and will begin a PhD program at Brown University Fall 2024.

Tosin graduated with a degree in Biochemistry and in the Goss Lab studied the recovery of pombe cells from osmotic shock using atomic force microscopy. Her Senior Honors these received the A. Arthur Gottlieb Prize from the Wellesley Biochemistry Program. She is currently a medical student at the UT McGovern Medical School at MD Anderson in Houston, Texas. 

Kathryn graduated from Wellesley as a Biochemistry major and worked to implement atomic force microscopy to characterize the fission yeast cell wall. Her Senior Honors Thesis recieved the A. Arthur Gottlieb Prize from the Wellesley Biochemistry Department. She earned her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Yale University working with Dr. Scott Strobel.

At Wellesley, Hannah majored in Women's and Gender Studies and as a member of the Goss lab she investigated the role of Blt1p in localization of the Sid2p kinase to the division site during cytokinesis. After graduation, Hannah earned a Masters in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and is currently a Family Nurse Practitioner in Portland, OR. 

Meg graduated from Wellesley as a Women's and Gender Studies major. During her time in the Goss lab, she studied localization of Type 2 node proteins at the division site during cytokinesis.  Meg is a clinical research assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston . 

Alice double-majored in Chemistry and Spanish at Wellesley and in the Goss Lab worked on developing an optogenetic system for manipulating protein localization. Post-graduation, she received a Masters of Public Health at the Drexel Dornslife School of Public Health and is currently a consultant with Equal Measure in Philadelphia, PA.

Gabriela graduated from Wellesley with a degree in Biological Sciences and worked to establish quantitative fluorescence confocal microscopy protocols in the Goss lab. Following graduation, she joined the English department faculty at Ginling College in Nanjing, China. She is currently a project manager Nederman in Charlotte, NC.  

Victoria majored in Biochemistry at Wellesley and worked to develop a protocol for using FRAP to characterize protein localization and interactions during fission yeast cytokinesis for her Honors thesis project in the Goss Lab. She is currently a research technician in the Luster lab at Mass General Hospital in Boston.  

Alexis majored in Biological Sciences at Wellesley College and completed an Honors Thesis with the Goss lab on how Type II interphase node proteins contribute to Sid2p kinase localization during cytokinesis. After graduation, she worked as an Emergency Department medical scribe at Cleveland's University Hospital and Pharmacy Technician in Cleveland, OH. 

While at Wellesley Ruby majored in  Cinema and Media Studies, and worked in the Goss lab on generating mutations in the genes encoding Type II interphase node proteins. Ruby went on to receive her MD at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and is currently an anethesiology resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. 

Ellie graduated from Wellesley majoring in Biological Sciences. In the Goss lab, she studied the biophysical properties of fission yeast cells during polarized cells growth. Her senior thesis with Dr. Lauren Pachman at Northwestern University was awarded the Carpenter Prize in the Biology department. Ellie will pursue her MD at USC Keck School of Medicine starting Fall 2024.

Justine majored in Biochemistry while at Wellesley, and she completed an Honors Thesis using AFM to characterize biophysical properties of the fission yeast cell wall. Since graduation, she has worked as a research technician and is currently with Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston. 

Lois majored in Biological Sciences at Wellesley College and completed an Honors Thesis on the characterizing the relative contributions of Blt1p and Gef2p to regulation of fission yeast cytokinesis. Following graduation, Lois was a clinical research coordinator at Mass General Hospital before pursuing an MD at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. 

Emma graduated from Wellesley with a degree in Biochemistry and completed an Honors Thesis on localization of the Sid2p kinase during fission yeast cytokinesis. Her thesis was awarded the Lingos Prize for outstanding independent research in the life sciences. Emma worked as a research associate in the Regev lab at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts before starting a PhD program at Stanford University in Stanford, California. 

Maahum majored in Biochemistry at Wellesley, and her Honors Thesis research in the Goss lab on developing an optogenetic system for regulating protein localization in fission yeast was awarded the A. Arthur Gottlieb prize for excellence in biochemical research. She went on to receive an MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin and is currently a plastic surgery resident at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. 

Isabella graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences from Wellesley, and in the Goss lab she studied the localization of Type 2 interphase node proteins during fission yeast cytokinesis. She is currently pursuing an MD at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado.

Carly worked in the Goss lab on characterizing environmental microbes that contributed to deterioration of an ancient Buddhist sandstone sculpture (in conjunction with the Klepac-Ceraj lab at Wellesley), before transferring to the University of Washington to complete her degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology. She is currently a Research Technician at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. 

Solveig majored in Biological Sciences at Wellesley and was awarded the Martha MacDowell Carpenter Prize for outstanding achievement in Biological Sciences. In the Goss lab she investigated how the localization of type II interphase node proteins during mitosis and cytokinesis. She is currently in medical school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in Cleveland, OH. 

Ruby graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Biochemistry, and she completed an Honors Thesis studying protein-protein interactions among Type 2 interphase node proteins. She completed her PhD in Biology with Dr. Benjamin Wolfe at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.