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2012 DENIZENS OF THE DANIEL LAB

Post-Docs

Simon Sponberg
Jon Dyhr
Yonatan Munk

Grad-Students

Dave Williams (PBio)
Nicole George (Bio)
Sharri Zamore (NBio)
Brad Dickerson (Bio)
Eric Octavio Campos (Bio)
Annika Eberle (MechE)

Undergrads

Darren Howell
David Colmenares
Mary Salcedo
Samia Kazi

Honorary Members

John Edwards
M. Patricia Morse
Katherine Graubard

	Tom Daniel Tom is the Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology. He received his BS and MS at the University of Wisconsin, a PhD at Duke and was the Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering Sciences at Caltech until 1984 when he joined the University of Washington and has been here ever since. He is the proud recipient of the University of Washington 1989 Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2001 Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award as well as being named a MacArthur Fellow.
	John Edwards Following a distinguished career studying insect neurobiology, development, and ecology (punctuated with numerous awards such as a Guggenheim award, a von Humbolt award and the Javitz Award) John is now Emeritus Professor of Biology. He is also elected to the Alaska Sportsman Hall of Fame. Autobiography
	Trish Morse Following a distinguished career studying bivalve heart-kidney complex and the bizarre world of tiny meiofauna, Trish now is an honorary lab member, connecting young scientists to best and brightest all over the world! She is the past president of the SICB, Sigma Xi and a prior Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Her interests include education at all levels, from K-12 to undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs (and a few professors too).. Autobiography
	Simon Sponberg Simon completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in the Full lab where he worked on the motor control of insect locomotion and on antennal sensing. He is currently studying the control and dynamics of hawkmoth flight with a focus on wing steering muscles. Simon's home page
	Jonathan Dyhr is a postdoc in the lab focussing on combining control theory and sensory biology in moth flight. He came to the UW with a doctoral degree in insect neurobiology from the University of Arizona where he worked with Chuck Higgins on visual control of flight paths in bees. . He will be working with Kriti Morgansen and members of our lab on a new MURI grant awarded to the team.
	Yonatan Munk is postdoc in the lab. He came to the UW from UC Berkeley where he worked with Mimi Koehl and Robert Dudley on a research program focussed on descent control in insects (the Descent of Ant). He has come to the lab with an eye towards multimodal integration, with an interest in decision making for flight control by Manduca. He will work with flight simulator that only a moth could love. Yonatan's home page
	David Williams is graduate student in the Physiology and Biophysics Program. He came to the UW with a Bachelor's degree in physics from Reed College. He is focussing on molecular motors and works with Mike Regnier and our lab on the development of 3-D models of myosin-actin interaction. Dave's home page
	Nicole George is graduate student in the Department of Biology. She came to the UW with a Bachelor's degree in Biology from UC Berkeley where she worked with Mimi Koehl in fluid mechanics. She is focussing on the biomechanics of Manduca flight muscle -- and it's temperature dependence.Nicole's home page
	Sharri Zamore is graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program. Sharri came to the UW from Cornell University. With Adrienne Fairhall as her primary co-advisor she is working in the lab on sensory processing during flight in complex turbulent structures.
	Brad Dickerson is graduate student in the Biology Department. Brad came to the UW from Swarthmore where he worked with Rachel Merz and the University North Carolina Chappel Hill where he worked with Ty Hedrick on moth antennal sensing. He is currently doing a rotation in the lab, focussing on inertial sensory systems in moths.
	Eric Octavio Campos is a graudate student in the Department of Biology. He came ot the UW with a Bachelor's degree in Biology from UC Berkeley where he worked with Roy Caldwell on stomatopod locomotion. He is now focussing on the interactions between floral form and behavioral choice in Manduca.
	Annika Eberle is a graudate student in Mechanical Engineering doing a rotation in the Daniel lab on a project involving finite element models that couple fluid dynamic and intertial loads to elastic deformations of structures (such as antennae or sections of wings). She will continue in the lab for the conming quarter.
	Billie Medina is a recent gradute of the Department of Biology. She is currently serving as the Daniel Lab Technical Coordinator, overseeing the daily operations of the lab.
	Darren Howell is an undergraduate at the UW. He is currently working with Jon Dyhr and Simon Sponberg on the encoding properties of campaniform sensilla in the wings of Manduca. He is successfully recording extracellular activity these sensors in the wing nerve.
	Mary Salcedo is an undergraduate majoring in Biology and in Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences (ACMS). Mary is working with both Dave Williams and Nicole George on mathematical models of muscle contraction in Manduca. She is also involved in the collaboration with Tom Irving (IIT) where we study time-resolved x-ray diffraction of live muscle at the Argonne Laboratories.
	David Colmenares is an undergraduate student in Bioengineering and in Computer Science and Engineering. He is working on a capstone project where by he can display arbritrary images via a pico-projector on a flight arena for testing behavioral responses to image motion. He is also work with Jon Dyhr to build a closed loop sensorimotor device that takes behavioral or electrophyiological information from an animal to control the image motion.
	Samia Kazi is an undergraduate majoring in Biology and in Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences (ACMS). Samia is working with Simon Sponberg and Jon Dyhr on free flight behavior in Manduca during floral tracking and wide-field visual stimulus motions.

Former Lab Members

Postdocs

Zane Aldworth
Jessica Fox
Danny Grunbaum
Ty Hedrick
Armin Hinterwirth
Sanjay Sane
Mike Tu

Graduates Students

Dany Adams
Stacey Combes
Alexandre Diedonne
Michael Dillon
Kevin Flick
Jessica Fox
Mark Frye
Erica Goldman
Brian Helmuth
Brad Hinkel
Armin Hinterwirth
Chris Jordan
Edgar Meyhofer
Andrew Mountcastle
Jordanna Sprayberry
Elizabeth Stockwell
Bertrand Tanner
Jamie Theobald
Alan Trimble

Undergrads

Mikael (Coco) Daranciang
Meika Decher
Amber Fechko
Saima Haq
Josh Horwitz
Spencer Howell
Heidi Huber
Nate Jacobsen
Lara Kidoguchi
Jacob Lockey
Jeff Longnioin
Susan Loudon
Craig Magaret
Mike Macpherson
Bjorn Millard
Katherine Miller
Carlos Moreno
Chet Moritz
Stephanie Sundier
Amy Paul
Charlotte Robinson
Marie Suver
James Tse

High School Students

Molly Geiger
Darren Howell
Spencer Howell
Peter Jeong
Cameron Myhrvold
Conor Myhrvold
Christina Tull

Last updated on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2012 18:46:20 PST. Send questions or comments to danielt@u.washington.edu