LIBUDA LAB
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Biology
Member, Institute of Molecular Biology
PhD, Harvard University
BSc, University of California, Los Angeles
Postdocs
Postdoctoral Researcher - Jane Coffin Childs Fellow
PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
BSc, University of California, Davis
research: sexual dimorphic features of chromosome structures in germ cells
Postdoctoral Researcher - NIH F32 NRSA Fellow
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BSc, Oregon State University
research: role of small RNAs in temperature-induced DNA damage during spermatogenesis
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, University of Georgia
BSc, Virginia Commonwealth Unviersity
research: mechanisms of temperature-induced DNA damage in spermatocytes
Graduate Students
Graduate Student
BSc, University of Texas - Austin
research: transgenerational effects of temperature-induced DSBs
Graduate Student - Developmental Biology Training Program
BSc, University of Alabama - Birmingham
research: role of chromosome structure in meiotic recombination outcomes
Graduate Student - Genetics Training Program
BSc, Vassar College
research: sexual dimorphic features of p-granules
Graduate Student - ARCS Scholar; Genetics Training Program
BSc, University of Wisconsin - Madison
research: regulation of recombination partner choices during meiosis
Research Staff
Technician
BSc, Southern Oregon University
research: regulation of key events of meiotic prophase I; project support
Bioinformaticist
MSc, University of Oregon
BSc, Humboldt State University
research: analyzing and visualizing all of our bioinformatics data sets
Undergraduate Researchers and Lab Assistants
Veronica Berg
Lab Assistant
duties: laboratory support; media and solution preparation
Cora Albers
Undergraduate Researcher - OURS Fellowship
research: mapping repeated elements in the C. elegans genome
Amelia Dayton
Undergraduate Researcher - Knight Campus Scholar
research: role of meiotic cohesins in temperature-induced DNA damage in spermatocytes
Ashley Epstein
Lab Assistant
duties: laboratory support; media and solution preparation
Phil Nosler
Undergraduate Researcher - Knight Campus Scholar; OURS Fellowship; UROP mini-grant recipient
research: characterizing the impacts of heat shock factors on genomic integrity
Sophia Schwartz
Lab Assistant
duties: laboratory support; media and solution preparation
Madison Studer
Undergraduate Researcher - UROP mini-grant recipient
research: P-granules in spermatogenesis
Sarah Young
Undergraduate Researcher
research: DSB repair in spermatogenesis
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Former Members
Sabbatical Faculty and Faculty "Rotation Students"
Ken Hillers, PhD, Chair and Professor, Biological Sciences Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Nadia Singh, Associate Professor at University of Oregon
David Wynne, Assistant Professor at University of Portland
Technicians
Marissa Glover - Scientist I at Guardant Health; completed PhD in 2021 (NSF GRFP Fellow) at UCSC in the Arribere Lab
Jackie Helm - homemaker
Jenn Lawson - InVivo Biosystems
Vashti Stutsman - UO COVID-19 testing field coordinator
Undergraduate Researchers
Fountane Chan (UO - honors thesis; CURE fellowship) - OHSU medical student; former post-bacc IRTA at NIH in Judith Kassis' lab
Cordell Clark (UO - honors thesis; OURS fellowship) - UC Berkeley PhD Student; former technician in Sue Biggins Lab (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Ali Cohen (UO) - DiscoverOrg
Coohleen Coombes (SFSU; SPUR/MARC summer student) - University of Washington PhD student
Rachel David (UO Honors College; Alden Scholar) - OHSU medical student
Cailan Feingold (UO Honors College; Knight Campus Scholar) - New York Medical College medical student
Quincey Fish (UO) - owner/founder of EZ Machine & Tool
Anna Horacek (UO - honors thesis; OURS fellowship) - UC Berkeley PhD student; former post-bacc IRTA at NIH in Judith Kassis' lab
Colin Maxwell (UO Honors College) - Qualtrics
Adriana Mendizabal (College of New Jersey; SPUR summer student) - Ford Foundation Fellow and UC Berkeley PhD student in Elcin Unal Lab
Brittany Owen (UO; OURS fellowship) - Juno Therapeutics, Inc.
Alina Salagean (UO Honors College; OURS Fellowship; Knight Campus Scholar) - MIT PhD student
Kaycee Schoellhorn (UO Honors College) - genetic counseling; former para educator at Sexton Mountain Elementary
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