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2021-2022 DANIEL LAB DENIZENS

Postprofs Tom Daniel (September 2022) Trish Morse (June 1998)	Postdocs/Res Scientists Melanie Anderson* Tanvi Deora* Travis Tune Ali Weber* Josh Swore*	Postbacs Abby von Hagel Mauro Torres Christina Wang
Staff Members Alison Mehravari Katie Dickinson Binh Nguyen	Undergraduates Laila Abadalla Abna Moalin	High School Interns Lucie Wolf (summer 2020) * co-advised

	Tom Daniel Tom holds Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair in the Biology Department. He received his PhD at Duke Biology 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.
	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).
	Alison Mehravari is the Assitant Director of Operations for various grants associated with the lab, including the recent Air Force Center of Excellence, a MURI grant and the Center for Translational Muscle Reserach. She received her Ph.D. in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program at the University of Washington with a focus on language processing in the Osterhaut lab.
	Katie Dickinson is the temporary Afor various grants associated with the lab, including the recent Air Force Center of Excellence, a MURI grant and the Center for Translational Muscle Reserach. She has also been workin in the lab of Ben Kerr and in instructional activities both associated with aspects of bacterial evolution.
	Binh Nguyen has been at the University of Washington for several decades. Together with the Riffell lab, Binh has been the coordinator of our insect cultures and has been maintaining both the Manduca sexta colony and a new Aedes aegypti colony. Prior to this, Binh received a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering here at the UW.
	Tanvi Deora is a postdoc in the lab and is jointly advised by Bing Brunton. She is a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontier in Science Program for research on mechanosensory information processing associated with floral feeding in insects. She is also supported by the UW eScience Institute as a UW Data Science postdoctoral fellow. Tanvi did her PhD in the lab of Sanjay Sane at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India where she focused on the mechanical coupling between wings and halteres in flies. Currently, she is interested in insect-plant pollination interactions to understand the interaction of mechanics, sensing and active movements. Tanvi's home page
	Alison (Ali) Weber is a postdoc who is jointly advised by Bing Brunton. Ali is supported by generous grants from the Washington Research Foundation as a WRF Postdoctoral Fellow and by the eScience Institute as a UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow. Ali received her doctoral training in the labs of Fred Rieke and Eric Shea-Brown, focusing on computational and experimental aspects of vision. She brings expertise in computational neuroscience, electrophysiology and sensory systems. She is currently focusing on distributed mechanosensory systems used for flight. .
	Melanie Anderson is a postdoc in the lab jointly advised by Sawyer Fuller. Melanie received her doctoral trainining in Mechanical Engineering here at the UW where she developed the "Smellicopter", a biohybrid chemosensing autonomous systems. Melanie will be continuing to work of the design and development of new biohybrid systems.
	Josh Swore is a postdoc who is jointly advised by Jeff Riffell. Josh is supported by a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Reserach. Josh received his doctoral training in the labs of Marti Bosma and Adrienne Fairhall, where he worked on characterizing gap junctions in Hydra. He brings to our team expertise in computational molecular neurosicience, electrophysiology and invertebrate biology. He is currently focusing chemosensory pathways in Mandcua sexta. .
	Travis Tune is a postdoc/ research scientist in the lab who is who is working with Mike Regnier, Tom Daniel and Dan Raftery as part of the Quantitative Analysis core of the Center for Translational Muscle Research. Travis received his doctoral training in the lab Simon Sponberg in the Physics Department of Georgia Tech, focusing on computational and experimental aspects of muscle force generation.
	Abby von Hagel is a postbac in the lab and was an undergraduate in the Neurobiology and Biology program. She is collaborating with Ali on a wing strain sensing project and with Sage on a project that involves understanding the timing and activation of flight muscles in Mandcua
	Mauro Torres is a postbac in the lab and was an undergraduate in the Psychology program. He is collaborating with Dr. Angela Dixon and Melanie Anderson on developing long term electroantennograms for use in biohybrid systems.
	Christina (Ziheng) Wang is a postbac in the lab and was an undergraduate major in Mathematics here at the UW. She is collaborating with Ali Weber on the role of higher dimensional sensory features in encoding information for sensory motor tasks.
	Ammanuel Mamo is a postbac in the lab and was an undergradue in Mechanical Engineering. He also working with Ali and Mahnoush Babaei (UT Austin) and Sarah Bergbreiter (Carnegie Melon) on finite element analyses of dynamic bending in wings.
	Laila Abdalla is an undergradue in the lab and part of the UW ENDURE program. She is working with Ali Weber and Katie Stanchack on mapping the spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla in Manduca.
	Lucie Wolf is a high school summer intern working with Ali and Abby on data analsis of mechanosensory signals associated with wing deformations. She is developing python code for graphical representation of past and current data.

Former Lab Members

Postdocs

Zane Aldworth
Bing Brunton
Julie Cass
Jon Dyhr
Jessica Fox
Danny Grunbaum
Ty Hedrick
Armin Hinterwirth
Tom Libby
Jamie Locport
Yonatan Munk
Eric Rombokas
Eatai Roth
Simon Sponberg
Sanjay Sane
Callin Switzer
Mike Tu
Dave Williams

Graduates Students

Dany Adams
Melanie Anderson
Jorge Bustamante
Octavio Campos
Stacey Combes
Brad Dickerson
Alexandre Diedonne
Michael Dillon
Annika Eberle
Kevin Flick
Jessica Fox
Mark Frye
Nicole George
Erica Goldman
Robin Harris
Brian Helmuth
Brad Hinkel
Armin Hinterwirth
Chris Jordan
Sage Malingen
Edgar Meyhofer
Thomas Mohren
Andrew Mountcastle
Joe Powers
Jordanna Sprayberry
Elizabeth Stockwell
Bertrand Tanner
Jamie Theobald
Alan Trimble
Dave Williams
Sharri Zamore

Undergrads & Postbacs

Mahad Ahmed
Anthony Asencio
Melanie Anderson
Nathan Berry
Jared Callaham
Mikael (Coco) Daranciang
Meika Decher
Amber Fechko
Kit Githinji
Robert Hall
Saima Haq
Josh Horwitz
Spencer Howell
Darren Howell
Heidi Huber
Nate Jacobsen
Samia Kazi
Lara Kidoguchi
Jamie Locport
Jeff Longnioin
Susan Loudon
Craig Magaret
Aman Mamo
Matthew Mann
Mike Macpherson
Bjorn Millard
Katherine Miller
Carlos Moreno
Chet Moritz
Amy Paul
Brandon Pratt
Charlotte Robinson
Saray Robles
Elischa Sanders
Mary Salcedo
Bo Bin Song
Joey Sullivan
Stephanie Sundier
Marie Suver
James Tse
Shawn Wilkinson

High School Students

Neil Chauhan
Marissa Dominguez
Ashley Esclante
Molly Geiger
Monica Harris
Darren Howell
Spencer Howell
Zack Horvitz
Peter Jeong
Taylor Johnston
Dylan LaMarca
Emma LaMarca
Andreas Molbak
Cameron Myhrvold
Conor Myhrvold
Arianna Njonge
Winston Roberts
Luca Scheuer
Christina Tull
Jane Woods

Last updated on Thursday, 23-Jun-2022 12:54:04 PDT. Send questions or comments to danielt@u.washington.edu