2025 Whitman Fellows

Florida Atlantic University
"Octopus health: determining hemolymph values and microbiomes for basic health standards in a laboratory setting"
cbennice@fau.edu
MRC 203/Hanlon Lab
5/5/2025 - 6/6/2025

University of Kansas
"Genome editing approaches to testing toxin function in the hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus"
pcart@ku.edu
Rowe 208
9/7/2025 - 11/15/2025

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"An ecological, morphological and phylogenomic survey of Cape Cod Stentors"
bmcdbdao2042000@gmail.com
Lillie 106
6/8/2025 - 8/16/2025
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
"Advancing genomic tools in the Atlantic horseshoe crab to study major transitions in visual systems"
guilherme.gainett@childrens.harvard.edu
Rowe 109
5/25/2025 - 5/31/2025
6/8/2025 - 7/31/2025
8/19/2025 - 9/1/2025

American Museum of Natural History
"Establishing functional tools in a nudibranch mollusk to investigate phagocytosis evolution"
jgoodheart@amnh.org
Lillie 311/ Rawlinson Lab
8/17/2025 - 10/4/2025

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
"Development of embryonic stem cell lines an d induced pluripotent stem cell lines for Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis"
gary-gorbsky@omrf.org
Rowe 423/NXR
6/8/2025 - 8/17/2025

Santa Fe Institute
"History of Imaging Technology Exhibit at 乐播传媒"
acg@santafe.edu
Library
5/12/2025 - 5/25/2025

Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
"Bivalve genetics and genomics towards understanding the regulation of longevity"
harris@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Rowe 222
6/9/2025 - 8/19/2025

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Investigation of Evolutionary Origins of Sleep States and State-Specific Neural Representations"
takatoh@mit.edu
Lillie 113
6/19/2025 - 8/28/2025

Penn State University Park
"Artificial Coral Hosts for Living Symbionts"
cmd8@psu.edu
MRC207/Roberson Lab
8/10/2025 - 8/29/2025
11/2/2025 - 11/22/2025

Charles University
"Developmental systems drift of secondary sexual differentiation using genome editing in African clawed frogs (Xenopus)"
martin.knytl@natur.cuni.cz
Rowe 423/NXR
6/29/2025 - 9/6/2025

The University of Chicago
"Mechanisms underlying pulmonary fibrosis in the Xenopus model"
skultperry@uchicago.edu
Rowe 423/NXR
7/12/2025 - 8/25/2025

Royal Veterinary College
"Dissecting the function of the leucine rich repeat kinases in the development and regeneration of nematostella vectensis"
plewis@rvc.ac.uk
Rowe 421/Echeverri Lab
7/24/2025 - 9/10/2025

Leipzig University
"Structural correlates of short-term facilitation at a cortical synapse"
kristina.lippmann@gmail.com
Lillie 225/226
7/8/2025 - 9/9/2025

Harvard University
"Exploring a Direct Link Between Reactive Oxygen Species and Actin Remodeling in Wound
Healing Using Clytia hemisphaerica"
tlitschel@g.harvard.edu
Lillie 107
6/14/2025 - 8/23/2025

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
"Ostracods in a changing world"
darwinula@gmail.com
Lillie 341/ Arkhipova Lab
8/15/2025 - 9/15/2025

Case Western Reserve University
"Molecules of the Hair Cell Mechanotransduction Apparatus of Cephalopods"
bmm30@case.edu
Lillie 216
6/7/2025 - 8/16/2025

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU
"Investigations into active sleep in cuttlefish and octopuses"
hobenhaus@gmail.com
Rowe 206
5/30/2025 - 8/8/2025

University of Arizona
"Uncovering Long-distance Signaling Mechanisms to Establish Bidirectional Communication with Plants"
nponvert@arizona.edu
Rowe 205
8/25/2025 - 10/24/2025
Paracelsus Medical University (PMU)
"Deciphering surface molecular signatures in axolotl regeneration"
jan.pruszak@pmu.ac.at
Rowe 421/Echeverri Lab
8/17/2025 - 8/30/2025

Hampton University
"Investigating Polysaccharide Utilization in Cyclobacterium marinum and other marine microbes using Fluorescently Labeled Polysaccharides (FLAPs) and Super-Resolution Microscopy"
indu.sharma@hamptonu.edu
Lillie 118F
6/27/2025 - 8/10/2025

Stowers Institute for Medical Research
"Establishing Transgenic Planarians by Leveraging VitelloTag for In ovo Transfection"
es2313@stowers.org
Rowe 220/221
6/3/2025 - 7/30/2025

University of North Carolina Wilmington
"Developing the GRNs of cell type specification in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata"
warnerj@uncw.edu
Lillie 114
7/19/2025 - 8/9/2025

IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
"Octopus bimaculoides single arm food retrieval strategies: toward understanding of action selection in a complex invertebrate"
letizia.zullo@hsanmartino.it
MRC203/Hanlon Lab
7/13/2025 - 8/31/2025