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Cynthia was a neuroscience major at Oberlin College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1990. She then went on to graduate school at the University of Virginia where she earned her PhD in neuroscience in 1995 working in the lab of Dr. Carl Creutz. Her dissertation research was on the biochemical characterization of the synaptic vesicle protein, synaptotagmin. Next, Cynthia took a visiting assistant professor position at Whitman College for one year before beginning her postdoctoral work with Dr. Theresa O'Halloran at Duke University. As a postdoc, Cynthia studied clathrin function in Dictyostelium. After her postdoc, she was an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Vassar College where she began studying the function of a novel family of proteins called copines using Dictyostelium. She is currently an associate professor in the Biology Department at Central Michigan University. |
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Tasha is an undergraduate biomedical science major at CMU and plans to graduate in December of 2008. Tasha was awarded a Summer Research and Creative Endeavors Scholarship to work in the lab this summer. She is currently working on a project to characterize the developmental defect in cpnA knockout cells using various types of microscopy. She plans to work as a lab technician for a few years after graduation before going on to graduate school. |
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Kerry is an undergraduate biology with microscopy option major at CMU. She is currently working on a project to characterize the contractile vacuole defect in cpnA- cells. |
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Jaimie is an undergraduate neuroscience and Spanish dual major at CMU. She is currently working on a project to determine the expression patterns of cpnA during Dictyostelium development. |
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Hanqian "Helen" is a masters students from Shanghai, China. She has B.S. in Biotechnology from East China Normal University. She is currently working on a project to identify the protein binding partners of copines in Dictyostelium. |
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