Principal Investigator
swoo6[at]ucmerced.edu
Bio: Stephanie Woo earned her B.S. in molecular biology at the University of Texas Austin, where she performed undergraduate research with Peter Vize studying embryonic kidney patterning. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin Madison, working in the lab of Timothy Gomez to examine integrin-dependent adhesion dynamics of neuronal growth cones during development of the nervous system. For her postdoc, Stephanie joined the lab of Didier Stainier at the University of California San Francisco where she further developed her expertise in cell motility to include in vivo, multicellular systems by studying the morphogenesis of zebrafish embryos. Also at UCSF, she worked with Orion Weiner to develop a zebrafish-optimized optogenetic gene expression system. In 2017, Stephanie joined the faculty in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at UC Merced.
Current members
Devina Chavez
Lab manager, dchavez63[at]ucmerced.edu
Jesselynn LaBelle
Graduate student, Quantitative and Systems Biology
Grace Newman
Graduate student, Quantitative and Systems Biology
Miranda Luque
Graduate student, Quantitative and Systems Biology
German Paniagua
Lab technician
Previous Members
Leesa Strasser
Previous Position: Graduate student, Quantitative and Systems Biology
Current Position: California Fish & Wildlife
Stefan Materna
Previous position: Staff Scientist
Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, University of California Merced
Kyle Shen
Previous position: Undergraduate researcher
Current position: Medical student, University of California San Francisco
Victor Castro
Previous position: Undergraduate researcher
Current position: Research Associate, Latigo Biotherapeutics
Maya Lujan
Previous position: Undergraduate researcher
Current position: Lab technician, University of Southern California
Adela Ramos-Martinez
Previous position: Lab manager
Current position: Medical student, University of California Davis