Dr. Heather Verkade
Lecturer in Genetics
Heather began her zebrafish research in the laboratory of Prof. Didier Stainier at UCSF in San Francisco, working on endoderm development. She continued this work with Assoc. Prof. Joan Heath at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, before starting her own group at Monash University in 2007. She thinks zebrafish are the best.
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Dr. Xenia Kostoulias
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xenia’s PhD project entailed finding new genes involved in kidney development in mice, in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. She has now decided that zebrafish are much nicer than mice.
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Dr. Sarah Sherson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sarah has extensive experience with plants from her PhD studies and Postdoctoral work looking at Arabidopsis biochemical genetics. She likes zebrafish, but misses plants too.
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Lee Miles
PhD Student
Lee completed an honours project in the University of Otago looking at Xenopus development. He then saw the light and moved to Australia to work on zebrafish.
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Wade Moore
Phd student
Wade completed honours in the lab characterising the HL-7.2 mutant. He decided this wasn’t enough punishment and so he is continuing in the lab as a PhD student.
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David Gurevich
Phd student
David decided to do his PhD research using in vivo model system, the zebrafish, to study muscle stem cells. He is a joint student between the Verkade lab and the lab of Peter Currie in the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University.
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