Current Members
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Biology
Member, Institute of Molecular Biology
PhD, Harvard University
BSc, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Staff
Assistant Research Professor
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BSc, Oregon State University
Research: Sex-specific responses to environmental stress during meiosis
John Conery, PhD
Emeritus Professor
PhD, University of California Irvine
Research: Bioinformatics
Postdocs
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, University of Oregon
BSc, University of Alabama - Birmingham
Research: Homologous recombination and chromosome rearrangements in the C. elegans genome
Postdoctoral Researcher, Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, NICHD K99 Awardee
PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
BSc, University of California, Davis
Research: Sexual dimorphic features of chromosome structures in germ cells
PhD Students
PhD Student- Genetics Training Program
BSc, University of Texas, Austin
Research: The role of the cytoskeleton in DNA repair
PhD Student - Genetics Training Program
BSc, University of Iowa
Research: Investigating heat-induced DNA damage repair in developing spermatocytes
Research: Sexually dimorphic organization and regulation of small RNA pathways
PhD Student - Developmental Biology Training Program
BSc, Washington State University, Pullman
Research: The role of chromatin modifications in regulating heat-induced DNA damage.
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Oregon Biology Major;
Associates Degree, Lane Community College
Research: Examining sexually dimorphic germ granule components in small RNA pathways
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
University of Oregon Biology Major with minor in Environmental Studies
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Oregon Biology Major with minor in Planning, Public Policy, and Management
Research: Sex-specific protein organization and function in germ granule development.
Daela Montgomery
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Oregon Honors College Biology major with minor in Biochemistry
Research: Roles of histone methyltransferases in maintaining germ cell genome integrity
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Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars
Cori Cahoon – Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow; NICHD K99 Awardee; Assistant Professor at Colorado State University (starting January 2025)
Nicole Kurhanewicz – NRSA/F32 NIGMS Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Research Professor at University of Oregon
Alice Naftaly – Assistant Professor at Western Oregon University
Graduate Students
Zac Bush – Postdoctoral Scholar in Libuda Lab
Erik Toraason – LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow in Colleen Murphy Lab (Princeton University)
Research Assistants
Victoria Adler – PhD student at UNC, Chapel Hill
Marissa Glover – PhD UCSC (NSF GRFP Fellow); now Scientist at Exai Bio
Jackie Helm – stay at home mother
Jennifer Lawson – InVivo Biosystems
Colette Richter – InVivo Biosystems
Vashti Stutsman – OHSU Nursing Program
Sabbatical Faculty
Kenneth Hillers – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (Chair of Biology)
David Wynne – University of Portland
Staff Scientists
Devin Dinwiddie – Lead Bioinformatician for the Center for Noninvasive Diagnostics at Translational Genomics Institute
Nicole Kurhanewicz – NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow; Asst. Research Professor at UO
Undergraduates
Kamuela Akeo
Cora Albers - Research Assistant at Ohio State University
Fountane Chan- MD student at OHSU Medical School; NIH IRTA post-baccalaureate program (Judith Kassis’ lab)
Cordell Clark - PhD student in Rebecca Heald Lab at UC Berkeley; Technician II in Sue Biggins Lab (HHMI, Hutch Cancer Center);
Alexandra Cohen - DiscoverOrg
Coohleen Coombes - PhD student at University of Washington
Rachel David – received MD from OSHU; currently in Ventura Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
Amelia Dayton – M.Sc. student at University of Oregon; technician at Plasmidsaurus
Ashley Epstein
Cailan Feingold – MD student at New York Medical College
Quincey Fish - owner/founder of EZ Machine & Tool
Breenah Goldberg – Thermo Fisher Scientific
Lauren Hodges
Anna Horacek – NIH IRTA post-baccalaureate program (Judith Kassis’ lab); PhD student in Dirk Hockemeyer Lab at UC Berkeley
Ryan Kozak – WestPac Wealth Partners
Nicolas Lee – Hutch Cancer Research Center Post-Bacc Program
Julia Lo – Student representative on UO Board of Trustees
Zach Marshall – Student Researcher in Adrienne Huxtable Lab (UO)
Colin Maxwell – Technical Account Manager at Qualtrics
Alex McGowan
Adriana Mendizabal – PhD student in Elcin Unal Lab at UC Berkeley
Philip Nosler – PhD student at UCSB in Jean-Marie Volland Lab
Brittany Owen – Manufacturing Specialist Team Lead, Bristol Myers Squibb
Alina Salagean– PhD student at MIT in Yukiko Yamashita’s lab
Ruben Sanchez Flores – Research Assistant at OHSU
Sophia Schwartz – Undergraduate Researcher in Patrick Phillips Lab (UO)
Kaycee Schoellhorn – Genetic Counseling MSc student at Boston University
Madison Studer
Nikki Szczepanski – University of Oregon Masters Program in Bioinformatics
Mindy Tran – MSc Bioinformatics student at Boston University
Jordan Willard
Alex Wong
Sarah Young
Emily Zimet
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