heather eisthen
As PI, Heather spends too much time at her computer and going to meetings and not enough time doing experiments.
fernanda lopez-bermejo
Fernanda is a senior studying production of metabolites in bacteria on newt skin.
toinu oglesby-rodgers
Toinu is a senior developing approaches to study the histology of newt skin.
santiago rodriguez castro
Santiago is a new graduate student interested in sensory processing and brain evolution.
mara roiland
Mara is a senior who manages our animal facility.
taylor rupp
Taylor is a graduate student studying courtship communication and its neural basis in axolotls.
faheed shafau
Faheed is a junior studying adaptations for toxicity in newt skin.
lucy sullivan
Lucy is a senior studying the genetic basis of interactions between microbes and newts.
julia walton
Julia is a freshman who will be working with microbial products.
samantha westcott
Samantha is a graduate student who is studying mechanisms underlying toxin production in newts.
recent collaborators
Emma Coddington, Willamette University
James Foster, University of Idaho
Lauren O’Connell, Stanford University
Kevin Theis, Wayne State University
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