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Lab Alumni

Many former lab members have started their own research groups and have established their own exciting research programs. Here are links to some of their websites; a complete training history is here.

Iris Hardege, postdoc, 2017-2023
(Royal Society Fellow, Cambridge University)          
https://www.hardege-lab.com/

Julia Morud Lekholm, postdoc, 2017-2020
(Associate Senior Lecturer, U Gothenburg)  
https://www.gu.se/en/research/molecular-neurobiology

Yi-Quan Tang, postdoc, 2014-2020
(Professor, Fudan University)
https://iobs.fudan.edu.cn/iobsenglish/13/5f/c17668a398175/page.htm

Yee Lian Chew, postdoc, 2015-2019
(Senior Lecturer, Flinders University)
https://chewwormlab.wordpress.com/

Barry Bentley, PhD, 2016
(Reader, Cardiff Metropolitan U)      
https://www.barrybentley.co.uk/

Ev Yemini, PhD, 2012
(Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School)  
https://www.yeminilab.com/

Marina Ezcurra, PhD, 2011
(Senior Lecturer, Univ Kent)  
https://marinaezcurralab.com/

Marios Chatzigeorgiou, PhD, 2011
Group Leader, Michael Sars Centre, Bergen  
https://www.chatzigeorgioulab.com/

Katie Kindt, PhD, 2006
Group Leader/Section Chief, NIH      
https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/research/labs/section-sensory-cell-development-and-function

Andre Brown, postdoc, 2009-2013
Reader, Imperial College London       
https://lms.mrc.ac.uk/research/behavioural-phenomics/

Ithai Rabinowitch, postdoc, 2006-2011
Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University  
https://scholars.huji.ac.il/ithairabinowitch/home

Henrik Bringmann, postdoc, 2008-2009
Professor, University of Dresden       
https://tu-dresden.de/cmcb/biotec/forschungsgruppen/bringmann?set_language=en

Alfonso Apicella, PhD 2004
Associate Professor, University of Texas San Antonio       
https://sciences.utsa.edu/labs/alfonso-apicella/

Massimo Hilliard, postdoc, 2001-2002
Professor, University of Queensland
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/hilliardgroup

Alexander Gottschalk, postdoc, 2000-2003
Professor, University of Frankfurt     
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/87769845/Prof__Dr__Alexander_Gottschalk

Christian Frøkjær-Jensen, Masters, 2002
Associate Professor, King Abdullah Univ
https://wormbuilder.org/

Laura Lowery, Masters, 2001
Professor, Boston University
https://www.lowerylab.org/

Complete training history

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