Lab Members

Dan Kiehart, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Biology
Professor of Cell Biology
Developmental, Cell and Molecular Biology (DCMB Group)
Phone: (919) 613-8157
Fax: (919) 613-8177
dkiehart at duke.edu


Janice Crawford, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
crawford_janice at hotmail.com

Development of transgenics for analysis of
morphogenesis in vivo.


U. Serdar Tulu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ust at duke.edu

Dynamics of focal adhesion proteins during dorsal closure.

Jennifer Sallee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
jennifer.sallee at duke.edu

Characterization of ck/Myosin VllA function and interactors.

Ginger Hunter, Ph.D.
Postoctoral Research Fellow
ginger.hunter at duke.edu

Role of mechanically gated ion channels in Drosophila morphogenesis.

Adrienne Wells
Graduate Student
arw4 at duke.edu

Quantitative analysis of tissue behaviors during dorsal closure.

Nicholas Warischalk
Graduate Student
nw27 at duke.edu

Biochemistry of myosins


Richard Mortensen
Graduate Student
email holder

project title holder






Undergraduate Research:

Eli Wilber
Undergraduate
eli.wilber at duke.edu

Super-resolution microscopy with Halobacteria


Yuqi Zhang
Undergraduate

Drosophila morphogenesis


Lab Alumni

If you've been left off the list and want to be included, please email Dan!

Former Postdoctoral Fellows:

O'neil W. Guthrie, Ph.D., CCC-A
gnotsniw@y a h o o.c o m

Susan Halsell
James Madison University
http://www.jmu.edu/biology/faculty/halsell/halsell.shtml

Graham Thomas
Penn State University
http://www.bio.psu.edu/home/directory/homepages/gxt5

Jim Bloor
University of Kent
http://www.kent.ac.uk/bio/bloor/

Former Graduate Students

Jody Franke
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon

Kevin Edwards
Illinois State
http://www.bio.ilstu.edu/Edwards/

Zuowei Su
Research Scientist, Duke University

Andy Ketchum
Johns Hopkins Summer School Faculty
http://www.jhu.edu/summer/facultybios/ketchum_a.html

Former Undergraduate Students:

George Leef, '11

Andrew Lyu, '10

Chinny Akwarandu, '10

Spencer Jasper, '10