Billy Hinchen

Billy was a graduate student in the lab who obtained his M.Phil from the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge in 2009. Using a combination of classical and computer-based tools, Billy began our work detailing the cell lineage of the early stages of Parhyale development up to germ band formation. Billy's work contributed to our paper on early Parhyale cell lineage. Billy is currently a medical writer at Medical Writer at Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions in the United Kingdom.

Franz Kainz

Franz was a graduate student in the lab who obtained his Ph.D. from the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge in 2009. His research aimed to understand the underlying genetic basis of how a repeated body unit or segment forms in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. Franz's paper on the role of Delta in cricket segment patterning was published in Development. He is currently a trainee in international management at Fresenius-Kabi in Austria.

Arnon Levy

Arnon obtained his Ph.D. from the the Department of Philosophy at Harvard in 2010, and also obtained a Masters degree in OEB for work in the lab during 2008 and 2009 on ovariole development in Drosophila. In philosophy of science, his works focuses on the connection between explanation and idealization. He is currently a Polonsky postdoctoral fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.

Friedemann Linsler

Friedemann obtained his Masters thesis from the Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany, having performed his Diploma thesis (masters) research in our lab in 2008, and continuing his work as a research fellow in 2009. He studied germ cell migration in Parhyale hawaiensis. He is currently a PhD student with Jordi Casanova at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona, Spain.

Omar Delannoy-Bruno

Omar was an undergraduate biology student from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. During the summer of 2009, he studied the mechanisms of germ line specification in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. The Leadership Alliance and MARC program supported this summer research opportunity. He is currently a PhD student with Jose E. Gacria Arraras at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.

Aisha Dorta

Aisha was an undergraduate biology student from Brooklyn College (CUNY). During the summer of 2011, she studied Drosophila ovarian morphogenesis. Aisha's work contributed to a paper on ovariole number in Drosophila that was published in Developmental Biology. Aisha was supported by the MCO Summer Intermship Program. She is currently continuing her undergraduate degree in physics, and hopes to attend graduate school in astronomy.

Ian Dunn

In his freshman year at Harvard College, Ian worked with Ben Ewen-Campen fixing Oncopeltus fasciatus embryos for in situ hybridization.

Alessandro Konig

Alessandro worked on Parhyale hawaiensis gonad development during the summer of 2008, when he was an undergraduate student in Molecular Biology at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Biotechnology, and also working for Roche Diagnostics in Graz as a research associate.

Elisabeth Maritschnegg

Elisabeth worked on Parhyale hawaiensis gonad development during the summer of 2008, when she was an undergraduate student in Molecular Biology at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria. She is currently pursuing her Masters degree in the area of cancer research.

Chiamaka Nwakeze

Chiamaka worked in the Extavour Lab during the spring semester of her sophomore year at Harvard with Franz Kainz on cricket segmentation.  She graduated in May 2010 with a degree in Neurobiology. She plans on pursuing MD/PhD joint degrees, with the goal of becoming a physician-scientist.

Katherine O’Leary

Katherine worked in the lab during the spring of 2008, in her first year of undergraduate study at Harvard University. She was invaluable in helping maintain the large cricket colony in the lab.

Trieu Ton
Trieu joined the lab in the summer following her freshman year at Harvard College, and participated in a prooject on germ cell fate determination in Parhyale hawaiensis embryos through to the summer prior to her senior year. Shereceived support from the Harvard College Research Program and the Museum of Comparative Zoology Grants-In-Aid of Undergraduate Research during her time in the lab. She graduated in May 2011, and is currently a junior business analyst at GroupVisual.io in Cambridge, MA.

Nat Clarke

Nat was a research assistant in the lab in the fall of 2011. Nat worked on cricket germ cell biology with Ben Ewen-Campen, and on the evolutionary history of the germ line developmental gene oskar. Nat obtained his BSc in biology from Whitman College, where he studied biomechanics, climate change ecology, and herpetology.  Nat's undergraduate research "Fitness benefits of climate change for a temperate ectotherm: effects of nighttime warming on reproduction," was accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology. He is currently at Friday Harbor Labs in Friday Harbor, WA.

Abel Assefa

Abel was a research assistant in the lab who worked on Drosophila ovarian morphogenesis from 2008-2009, after obtaining his BSc in physics from Grinnell College. Abel's work contributed to a paper on ovariole number in Drosophila that was published in Developmental Biology. He is currently at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University.

Vasanth Chandrasekhar

Vasanth was a high school student in the lab during the summers of 2007 and 2008 who worked on gonad development in Parhyale hawaiensis. He is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware pursuing a neuroscience degree. He is also working at Brown University under Doctor Anne C. Hart  investigating possible suppressor and enhancer genes for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in C.elegans .

Gabi Walters

Gabi was the lab zookeeper from June to December of 2010, while she was a senior at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Gabi is currently an undergraduate student at Cornell University.