Kathryn Kreimborg Stein, Ph.D., Post-doctoral fellow steink@niddk.nih.gov 301-594-4368
Katie received her Ph.D. In Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Davis in 2005. She is currently working on identifying and characterizing paternal effect mutants in C. elegans in order to better understand the contribution of the sperm to embryonic development. She is conducting a suppressor screen of an existing paternal effect gene, spe-11, to identify other genes that may play a role in this process. In addition, Katie is working on characterizing and mapping the mat-3 suppressor alleles.
Akila Moore, Ph.D., Post-doctoral fellow
Akila received her B.A. from University of California at Berkeley in 1997, her MA of Science in 2000 from Cal State L.A, and her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. She is currently characterizing the role of mitochondrial proteins during meiosis and mitosis and their subsequent roles in embryogenesis. Numerous nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes disrupt early development, leading Akila to propose a mitocheckpoint in C. elegans.
Anna Allen, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
Marsha Lucas, Ph.D., Research Biologist, lucasme@mail.nih.gov
Marsha received her B. S. from University of Maryland Baltimore County and her Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She is currently characterizing the germline defects associated with depletions of VRK-1, a conserved kinase.
Jessica Nesmith, post-bac IRTA, nesmithj@mail.nih.gov
Jessica received her B. S. from Muhlenberg College in 2009 where she majored in Biology and minored in English. She is currently characterizing a gain-of-function allele of such-1, an APC5 ortholog. This rare allele came out of a suppressor screen for mutants that restored viability to mat-3(or180) at the non-permissive temperature.
