2024 Whitman Fellows
![Tess Attenborough](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/ta13%20Tess%20Attenborough.jpg?itok=LsJuXSDF)
University of Glasgow
“A single cell atlas of the cercariae, the human-infective aquatic larval stage of Schistosoma mansoni”
teresa.attenborough@glasgow.ac.uk
L-311/Rawlinson
5/2/2024 - 6/14/2024
9/14/2024 - 10/10/2024
![Michael Barresi](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Barresi_headshot_v3_1MB%20Michael%20J%20Barresi.jpg?itok=hbfOTdVN)
Smith College
“Comparative investigation of CNS development between zebrafish and pygmy zebra octopus”
mbarresi@smith.edu
R-305/Patel
5/25/2024 - 8/2/2024
![Mary Elting](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/MaryElting.jpg?itok=yAIrhKaw)
North Carolina State University
“Toward a biophysical understanding of ultrafast contraction by the unicellular ciiliate Spirostomum ambiguum”
mary.elting@ncsu.edu
L-110/L-106/Oldenbourg
6/1/2024 - 7/31/2024
![Kate Feller](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Feller%2C%20Kate.png?itok=PS2n6qRS)
Union College
“Neurobiological investigation of loom-responsive descending interneurons in the control of mantis shrimp ballistic strikes”
kate.feller@gmail.com
L-223
6/18/2024 - 8/13/2024
![Loyal Goff](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Loyal%20Goff.jpeg?itok=11nocdJe)
Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine
“Ultra-high throughput characterization of cephalopod brain development at single cell resolution”
loyalgoff@jhmi.edu
MRC-306/Albertin
5/29/2024 - 7/6/2024
7/28/2024 - 8/31/2024
![Holford, Mandë](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-04/Mande%20Holford.png?itok=buN95-eJ)
City University of New York: Hunter College/AMNH
“Innervating Envenomation: Neuronal control of toxin release in cephalopods”
mholford@hunter.cuny.edu
R-208
6/20/2024 - 8/30/2024
![Takato Honda](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Takato%20Honda%20Takato%20Honda.jpg?itok=J4kGawvF)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Investigation of Evolutionary Origin of Sleep States and State-Specific Neural Representations”
takatoh@mit.edu
L-113
6/24/2024 - 9/1/2024
![Emily Junkins](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/IMG_7108%20Emily%20Junkins.jpeg?itok=bI3vc6zy)
University of California: Santa Barbara
“Evolution is Infectious: Phage defense mechanisms as a driver of diversification in microbial aggregates”
ejunkins@ucsb.edu
L-118F
7/14/2024 - 9/9/2024
![Nicole King](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/nicole%20king.jpg?itok=cyjDGyUd)
University of California: Berkeley
“Darwin’s Origin of Species viewed through the lens of molecular and cellular biology”
nking@berkeley.edu
Library Office
8/27/2024 – 9/24/2024
10/8/2024 – 10/21/2024
Rockefeller University
“Transgenic analysis of the novel, arsenic-resistant nematode Tokorhabditis tufae”
jlee08@rockefeller.edu
L-118D
6/2/2024 – 7/20/2024
![Duncan Leitch](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/DBL%20green%20Duncan%20Leitch.jpg?itok=v0qpdAgi)
University of California: Los Angeles
“Investigations of sensory system representation in the midbrain"
dleitch@ucla.edu
R-222
6/9/2024 – 8/18/2024
![Peter Lenart](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Peter%20Lenart.jpg?itok=p7Gesptw)
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
“Translational control of oocyte meiosis”
plenart@mpinat.mpg.de
R-310/312/R-109
6/27/2024 – 8/11/2024
![Artur Llobet](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Artur%20Llobet.jpg?itok=iwkyVB94)
University of Barcelona
"Use of Xenopus tadpoles to study the role of endolysosome dynamics in synaptic remodeling"
allobet@ub.edu
R-423/NXR
6/21/2024 – 7/28/2024
![Mace, Emily](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-04/Emily%20Mace.png?itok=5wPHk3T3)
Columbia University
“Studying lymphocyte migration in 3D microenvironments using advanced and low phototoxicity imaging"
em3375@cumc.columbia.edu
L-219/Library
6/23/2024 - 8/23/2024
![Amy Maddox](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/IMG_4213%20Amy%20Maddox.jpeg?itok=ctQ_u5Pf)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Innovative Imaging of Cellular Dynamics”
asm@unc.edu
L-107
6/19/2024 - 7/26/2024
![Jocelyn Malamy](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Jocelyn-Malamy.jpg?itok=bFwrSLjm)
University of Chicago
“Pre-visit for Whitman Fellowship project - Biotic and abiotic signalling in planula settlement in Clytia and Aurelia”
jmalamy@bsd.uchicago.edu
L-118B
6/30/2024 - 8/3/2024
4/30/2024 - 5/3/2024
![Heather Marlow](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Marlow_Pic%20Heather%20Marlow.jpeg?itok=s2B5yxf2)
University of Chicago
“Evolution of 3D Genome Folding Mechanisms and Gene Regulatory Strategies in Metazoans”
hmarlow@uchicago.edu
R-212
7/15/2024 - 9/20/2024
![Koen Martens](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/100_0462%20Koen%20Martens.jpg?itok=BjMoxTPu)
Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences
“Ostracods in a changing world”
darwinula@gmail.com
L-341/Arkhipova
7/15/2024 - 8/15/2024
![Brian McDermott](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/IMG_2044%20Brian%20McDermott.jpeg?itok=K4ZwhWOe)
Case Western Reserve University
“The hair cell mechanotransduction apparatus of cephalopods”
bmm30@case.edu
L-216
6/16/2024 - 8/24/2024
![Milovanovic, Dragomir (Drago)](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-04/Drago%20Milovanovic.png?itok=PYg435yA)
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
“Condensate Biology of Synaptic Vesicle Clusters in the Synaptic Boutons of Lamprey”
dragomir.milovanovic@dzne.de
R-408/Morgan
6/28/2024 - 8/8/2024
![Jacob Musser](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Jacob%20Musser_Lavitt.jpg?itok=b5JktMqC)
Yale University
“The evolutionary origin of synaptic transmission in early animals”
jacob.musser@yale.edu
L-225/226
7/1/2024 - 8/15/2024
![Obenhaus, Horst Andreas](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-04/Horst%20Oben%20haus.png?itok=eMlk3hqa)
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
“Investigations of active sleep in cuttlefish and octopuses”
hobenhaus@gmail.com
R-206
7/2/2024 - 9/10/2024
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
“Examining Salt Marsh Species Interactions and Vegetation Dynamics Across 50 years of Nutrient-Enrichment and Sea-level Rise”
tquirk@lsu.edu
SB-226
9/1/2024 - 10/31/2024
![](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/IMG_4729%20Sally%20Seraphin.jpeg?itok=pGHdgYK7)
Trinity College
“The evolutionary developmental (Evo-Devo) neurobiology of early stress in niche shifting red-eyed tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) and glass frogs (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni)”
sally.seraphin@trincoll.edu
R-423/NXR/LB264
5/23/2024 - 8/3/2024
![Francois Spitz](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Spitz_pic%20Francois%20Spitz.jpg?itok=UmQQ7QHS)
University of Chicago
"Evolution of vertebrate 3D genome regulatory architecture in cyclostomes chondrichthyes and osteichthyes after whole-genome duplications"
fspitz@uchicago.edu
R-212
7/15/2024 - 9/20/2024
![Otakar Strunecky](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/strunecky%20Strunecky.jpeg?itok=H3jSj2uj)
University of South Bohemia
“Unraveling the significance of plasmid-coded cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in oceans: a focus on Pseudanabaenales”
otakar.strunecky@gmail.com
SB-226
4/23/2024 - 6/22/2024
![Vargas-Muniz, Jose](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-04/Jose%20Vargas-Muniz.png?itok=PVipOESf)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“Identifying marine fungi-bacterial interactions and developing genetic tools for marine-derived yeasts”
jvm15@vt.edu
L-118A
6/25/2024 - 8/14/2024
![Jake Warner](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Warner%20Headshot%20Jake%20Warner.jpg?itok=KLZT8zNe)
University of North Carolina Wilmington
“Developing Astrangia poculata as a novel model organism for studying evolution and development of hard corals”
warnerj@uncw.edu
MRC-207/Roberson
7/13/2024 - 8/10/2024
![Bob Zeller](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2024-05/Zeller%2C%20Robert.png?itok=qk9ATRQz)
San Diego State University
“Generation of CRIPSR/Cas9 knockouts in Ascidian embryos”
rzeller@sdsu.edu
R-109
9/1/2024 - 11/10/2024