Meet the PI Members!
Karen Mruk, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Pharmacy
University of Wyoming
Current Affiliation: I started my lab August 2018. I'm an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming in the School of Pharmacy.
Previous Affiliation: I did my postdoctoral work in James Chen's lab at Stanford University. We were members of the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology and Department of Developmental Biology
Research Focus: In the CNS, specialized cells work together to differentiate, wire, and later die to form a completely integrated system. Our lab focuses on nervous system injury, degeneration and regeneration using zebrafish as a model. My lab is particularly focused on understanding the role bioelectricity plays in locomotor recovery and the genetic factors that govern this process.
Webpage: http://www.uwyo.edu/pharmacy/faculty-and-staff-directory/karen-mruk.html
Twitter: @MrukKaren
Hiring? Yes! Students can apply through the following graduate programs: Biomedical sciences, Neuroscience, or Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences at the University of Wyoming.
Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Ph.D. (賴時磊)
Assistant Research Fellow/Principal Investigator
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
Previous institution affiliation and mentor: Professor Didier Stainier at Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Twitter: @bblay
Hiring? We have 2 fully-supported positions for PhD students. Please contact Dr. Ben Lai and apply for Taiwan International Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine at http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/MM.html.
Arndt F. Siekmann, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Principal Investigator, Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
In September 2018, I moved my laboratory from the Max-Planck-Institute in Münster, Germany to the University of Pennsylvania.
Previous address:
Laboratory for Cardiovascular Patterning
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Röntgenstr. 20
48149 Münster
Germany
New address:
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Principal Investigator, Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
1114 Biomedical Research Building
421 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
My research focus:
We study blood vessel development, mainly using zebrafish as a model system. In addition, we are using cultured cells to understand the epigenetic changes that occur during the adaptation of the vasculature to biophysical forces.
Webpage: https://siekmannlab.med.upenn.edu
Hiring? I am hiring postdoctoral researchers.
Amber Stratman
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine
NICHD/NIH, Brant Weinstein
My lab is interested in the mechanisms regulating blood vessel formation, stabilization and blood flow sensing during development and disease.
Twitter: @StratmanLab
We are always looking for talented individuals to join our group! We currently have openings for a postdocs to work on blood vessel formation, stabilization, and blood flow sensing. Interested applicants should email a cover letter, list of three references, and CV to a.stratman@wustl.edu.
Miguel Moreno-Mateos
@crisprscan - Twitter, miguel.moreno-mateos@yale.edu
I am starting my new lab (1st official day 1st February 2019) at the Andalusian Center of Developmental Biology (CABD) as Assistant Professor (Ramon y Cajal Fellow-Junior PI) in the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain).
I did my PhD (Department of genetics,University of Seville, Spain) under the supervision of Professor T. Benítez studying how environmental pH controls gene expression in a mycoparasitic fungus. Once I finished my doctorate, I moved to research projects more focused on new technologies and biomedical research and I did my first postdoc at CABIMER-CSIC (Seville, Spain) in the laboratory of Dr. Pintor-Toro studying molecular and cellular biology of cancer using mammalian cell lines as a model. In 2013, I joined the laboratory of Prof. Antonio Giráldez at Yale University as a Research Associate Scientist to work on CRISPR-Cas gene editing tool and its application to study early development and human diseases using zebrafish as model. I was recently awarded with a Ramon y Cajal grant allowing me to join Pablo de Olavide University (Assistant Professor) and CABD at Seville where I have just started my lab in February 2019 as Junior PI (Springboard PI). Currently, I am studying novel in vivo CRISPR applications to better understand early development in vertebrates.
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