Aimee Jaramillo-Lambert, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow,
aimee.jaramillo-lambert@nih.gov
Aimee received her B.S. in 2003 and her Ph.D. in 2010, both in Genetics, from the University of California, Davis. During her graduate career she examined sex-specific differences in meiosis, including DNA replication, meiotic prophase progression, and checkpoints using the model organism C. elegans under the mentorship of Dr. JoAnne Engebrecht, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. For her postdoctoral work she is continuing to investigate cellular processes that ensure the production of viable progeny. Currently, she is starting to further characterize spe-11, a paternal-effect-lethal mutant involved in early embryonic development in C. elegans and carrying out suppressor screens of this mutant. She is also setting up the TALENs system of targeted genome editing for the Golden lab.
Amy Fabritius, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow,
amy.fabritius@nih.gov
Amy earned her B.A. in 2007 in Biology from Ohio Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. in 2012 in Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Davis. During her graduate career in the lab of Dr. Frank McNally, she studied the regulation of actomyosin in C. elegans polar body formation and other events during the female meiotic divisions. Currently, she is identifying C. elegans orthologs of human disease genes and will carry out mutant suppressor screens to identify factors that interact or regulate particular genes.
Sanjay Shrestha, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow,
sanjay.shrestha@nih.gov
Sanjay completed his M.S. in 2008 and Ph.D. in 2011 in Molecular biology. Working under the supervision of Dr. Charles Bradley Shuster in the Molecular Biology Program at New Mexico State University, he investigated the roles of different cytokinetic factors in the specification of the cleavage plane in dividing cells using human tissue cultured cells as a model system. Following his completion of Ph.D., he continued to examine the roles of some of these regulators in furrow initiation and progression in dividing cells in the same lab up until joining this lab at NIDDK in November of 2012. Sanjay will be focusing on genetic screens for suppressor mutants of some rare human monogenic disease genes using C. elegans as a model organism.
Abby Fuchsman, B.A., Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Awardee,
abigail.fuchsman@nih.gov
Abby received her B.A. in Biology from Bard College in 2012. Her undergraduate research was studying the role of cadherins in neurosensory hair cell formation in the model organism, Danio rerio. She is currently identifying the genes responsible for a number of temperature-sensitive embryonic lethal mutants that were first isolated more than 30 years ago. She is also beginning to use the worm model to study rare human diseases.
Anna Allen, Ph.D., Visiting Scientist,
allenanna@mail.nih.gov
Anna received her B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies from George Washington University in 2001, and her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biology in 2007. Her Ph.D. research was on the affects of a specific nuclear hormone receptor (HR39) in reproduction and sperm storage in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Allan Spradling at the Carnegie Institution for Science- Department of Embryology. She continued to follow her interests in reproduction by studying a conserved cell cycle regulator, WEE-1.3, involved in C. elegans meiosis and oocyte maturation. Over the past years, she has performed an in-depth characterization of this major cell cycle inhibitory kinase, including identifying its spatiotemporal localization, further characterizing the precocious oocyte maturation exhibited upon its depletion, and identifying novel players in the oocyte maturation process by screening for suppressors of the infertility phenotype of WEE-1.3-depleted animals. Her current research is aimed at determining the mechanism by which a number of these suppressors act. She has recently joined the faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. where she is actively involved in teaching and mentoring students. While her lab is being renovated, she is still conducting research here at NIDDK.
