Inaba Lab

Mayu Inaba

Principal Investigator

Email:moguro@uchc.edu

Research interests: Niche-stem cell signaling, Asymmetric stem cell division, Gene regulation, function of nuclear RNAs.

Samaneh Poursaeid

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: poursaeid@uchc.edu

Samaneh’s research focuses on how expression of genes changes during asymmetric division of Drosophila germline stem cells.

Vedansh Patel

Undergraduate Student

Email: vedansh.patel@uconn.edu

Vedansh is interested in investigating the roles of histone modification and turnover in cell-fate transition and tumorigenesis.

Stella DiPippo

Research Assistant

Email: dipippo@uchc.edu

Stella is investigating the mechanisms of dedifferentiation using RNAi screening and experimental GSC depletion to identify genes involved in their recovery. 

Emma Kristine Beard

Graduate Student

Email: beard@uchc.edu

Emma’s project examines the stage-specific expression and localization of retrotransposon RNA in spermatocytes. Specific focuses include how expression of these transposons is regulated and the effect of retrotransposon RNA on nuclear architecture and gene expression.

Sophia Bizink

Graduate Student

Email: bizink@uchc.edu

Sophia's project is to identify the mechanism how BMP signal from soma to germline regulates mitochondria morphology in spermatocytes.

Jeffrey Gamer

Research Assistant (Bioinformatics)

Email: gamer@uchc.edu

Jeff is looking for how transposon insertions are diverged in Drosophila melanogaster and closely related species.

Venkatesh Paruchuru

Research Assistant

Email:paruchuru@uchc.edu

Venkat is interested in how oncogenic gene loci in the genome changes during the process of tumorigenesis using induced tumor in fly germline