Ella is a project scientist who received her PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has mapped activation and repression domains in the Ultrabithorax protein of Drosophila. She has recently developed in situ hybridization methods to study enhancer-promoter interactions at the Ultrabithorax locus at the single nucleus level.
Michelle Juarez
Michelle is a project scientist who received her PhD from the State University of New York, Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She has developed genetic and chemical screens in Drosophila that have identifiednew components of an epidermal wound response pathway. Michelle has discovered many new genetic functions that are involved for the activation of local transcriptional wound responses, as well as in limiting such wound responses to cells in the immediate vicinity of wounds.
Rachel Patterson
Rachel is a graduate student who is studying the genomic transcriptional profile that is activated in epidermal cells around puncture wounds in late Drosophila embryos. Using this and other methods Rachel has identified novel genes that are involved in regulating the transcriptional response to epidermal injury, and in regeneration of epidermis post-wounding.
Anita Hermann
Anita is the manager for the McGinnis lab. She worked with a former PhD student, Aaron Arvey to improve the signal to noise ratio of in situ hybridizations (RNA-FISH) on Drosophila embryos. Anita also runs our confocal microscope facility, and collaborates with Rachel and Ella on various research projects.