Margaret A. Titus
Principle Investigator (P.I.)
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
Margaret (Meg) Titus received an AB in Biochemistry with honors from Smith College where she began her research career working on a plant myosin. She then studied myosin-linked regulation in invertebrate muscles at Brandeis University and earned her PhD under thesis advisor Dr. Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi. She then initiated studies of non-muscle myosins using molecular genetic approaches as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jim Spudich's lab at Stanford. M.A. Titus has since continued to investigate the role of diverse myosin family members in cell migration, chemotaxis, adhesion and endocytosis in the social amoeba Dictyostelium.
Casey Eddington
Graduate Student
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
Casey received a B.S. in organismic biology at Northeastern State University (NSU) in Oklahoma. After completing this, he pursued his M.S. under Dr. Sapna Das-Bradoo at NSU, where he investigated protein-protein interactions involved in DNA replication and genome stability. Currently, Casey is interested in finding potential binding partners of Talin and DdMyo7, two proteins that play a role in cellular adhesion.
Amy Crawford- Lab Technician
Amy graduated with her B.A. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry with a Minor in Music & Chemistry from Gustavus Adolphus College in June 2020. She is studying the role of myosin in filopodia formation in amoeboid cells as a postbaccalaureate.
Maham Zia - Lab Technician
Former Lab Members
Graduate Students:
Ashley Arthur, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University
Howard Lab
Karl Petersen, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Curie in Paris, France
Laura Breshears, PhD - Associate Medical Writer at Envision Pharma Group
Stacy Buchholz, MBS - Project Manager at Upsher-Smith Laboratories
Shawn Galdeen, PhD - Biology Laboratory Manager, Carleton College
Jeff Baker, PhD - Senior Scientist in Product Development at BD Diagnostic Systems
Shunji Senda, PhD - Deputy General Manager at the Kanto Chemical Company
Kristine Novak, PhD - Science Editor, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Taylor Harding, PhD - Computational Biologist - Tempus
Ben Binder, PhD - Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Augsburg University
Shellie Kieke, MS, PhD - Laboratory Genetic Counselor at Regions Hospital
Richard Tuxworth, PhD - Lecturer in Molecular Genetics, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Joe Kelleher, PhD - Senior Director, Discovery Biology
Neal Gilksman, PhD - Senior Application Specialist at Molecular Devices
Michelle Peterson, PhD - Associate Professor at the Science and Mathematics Division in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Chi M. Fong, PhD, MBA - Healthcare Consultant
Lab Technicians:
Annika Schroder, BS - Graduate Student at Northwestern U
Livia Songster, BS - Graduate Student at UC San Diego, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Reck-Peterson Lab, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Section of Cell and Developmental Biology,
Division of Biological Sciences
Alex McQuown, BS - Graduate Student at Harvard University, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Denic Lab, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard U
Hilary Bauer, BS - Medical Student at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester MN
Zoe Henrot, BS - Director and Founder of Ballet Co. Laboratory
Allison MacLean, BS - Assistant Scientist at the University of Minnesota Biomedical Genomics Center
Hannah Irwin, BS - Junior Scientist at the University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design
Nicholas Sander, MS - Research Scientist at BioAmber Inc.
Daniel Johnsrud, MD - Internal Medicine Resident at Mayo Clinic
Sinziana Cornea, BS - Medical Student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Anne Heun, MS - Genetic Counselor at Iowa Health in Des Moines, Iowa
Stephen Stephens - Senior Software Developer at Digiliti Money, Inc.
Kathleen S. Mahan, MD - Internal Medicine, U. Minnesota
Michael A. Mandell, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, U. New Mexico School of Medicine