Current Graduate Students:         

Vanessa Becerra: UC Santa Barbara '06                 

Michael Gledhill: Pepperdine '04 (joined lab '08)   

Nagaraju Kotagiri: ANGRA University (Hyderabad, India) '05

Michael Tran: UC Irvine '05 (joined lab '08)

Former Graduate Students:

Foung Vang [UC Davis '01 (Joined lab '04)]: Fresno State '08                           

    Potential impacts of selenium on California red-legged frogs (Rana draytonii)

Ammon Rice: Fresno State '06

The Influence of Environmental Parameters on Zoeae Recruitment Dynamics of the Chinese Mitten Crab, Eriocheir sinensis, in San Francisco Bay, California

 

Will Nelson: Fresno State '05 (joined lab in '02)

Tadpole Shrimp, Triops longicaudatus - Biochemistry of MF metabolism in tadpole shrimp

Isidro Fierro: Fresno State '03 (Joined lab in '02)                               

Ridgeback Shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis - Effect of methyl farnesoate

on vitellogenin synthesis and sequestering of hemolymph proteins

into oocytes 

Josh Oldenkamp '02 - Associate Researcher - NIH 

    Ridgeback shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis - Gene sequencing of vitellogenin 

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Angela (Toste) McClellan '01 - Lecturer    

Mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis - characterization of mitten crab vitellin

Colby Linder '00 - Tenured @ Fresno Community College                             

                                            Tadpole shrimp, Triops longicaudatus -  

    Inhibition of reproduction by methyl farnesoate             

Kelleen Murphy '99 - Practicing OB-GYN in Fresno   

        Tadpole shrimp, Triops longicaudatus -

        Heat shock Proteins involved in hatching                        

         A trooper in the mudflats

Ramin Pooyan '98 - Medical School - Resident @ Michigan State University

    Ridgeback shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis - Identification of sites of vitellogenin synthesis

Stephen Stukovsky  '97 - Medical school - Resident @

    Ridgeback shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis - Endocytosis of vitellogenin into oocytes

Larry Riley '97 - PhD. University of Hawaii (2003)

    Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, CSU Fresno

    Tadpole shrimp, Triops longicaudatus - Characterization of reproductive life history

J. Scott Bender '96 - Tenured faculty - Delta Community College

    Ridgeback shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis - Characterization of vitellin and development of ELISA