Current members

Jordan D. Ward, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
About me
jward2@ucsc.edu

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Guinevere Ashley
Ph.D candidate/
Team NHR-25, KIN-20, and LIN-42 expert. TIR optimization.
Bhalla lab alum
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Becca Spangler
Graduate student awaiting quals. Joint student with Partch lab. KIN-42 and KIN-20 structure function, and NHR-23 ligand hunting.
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Joseph Aguilera
​Volunteer researcher/
​MARC scholar
​Team NHR-23/NHR-85

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Chiara Marley
​Volunteer researcher/
Tissue-specific NHR-23 depletion.

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Brittney Davidson
​Volunteer researcher/
Molecular biologist extraordinaire.

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Anthony Vo
​Volunteer researcher/
plate pouring crew.

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Runvir Chouhan
​​Volunteer researcher/
plate pouring crew.

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Former lab members

Matt Ragle, Ph.D.
Research associate/
Lab manager/
Team NHR-23 in the germline, plus everything else!
​Zahler lab alum.

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Londen Johnson
PhD candidate/
Team NHR-23 and
​NHR-85. IMSD and Training Grant Scholar
Chu lab alum

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Max Levenson
Junior Specialist. TIR optimization and MLT-11 protease inhibitor characterization. Forced Bio-Rad to fix two defective PCR machines for free!

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Diego Martinez​
Volunteer researcher/
​UC LEADS scholar
​Team NHR-25/LIN-42

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Jesse Manzano
​Volunteer researcher/
IMSD scholar.
NHR-85 and molting

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Liliana Loza Sanchez
​Volunteer researcher/
IMSD scholar.
Split FP11 system. role of MLT-11 in C. elegans ​molting.

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Ryan Hong
​Volunteer researcher/
plate pouring crew.

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