Lab Personnel:
Laboratory Technician and Lab Manager:
Kathy Sak
Current Graduate Students:
Lori Berg:
Project: The Role of angiotensin II and TGF-beta in IGFBP-2 mediated mesangial cell anabolism.
Maelanie "Lanie" Galima
Project: The Physiological stressresponse during Catch and Release of California Sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher
Alex Gavrila:
Project: Cell & Molecular Characterization of the Insulin-regulated Glucose Transporter of the Goby
Jim Haigwood:
Project: The Diabetogenic role of Pancreatic glucagon in the teleost fish Gillichthys mirabilis.
Tiffany Price:
Project: Impacts of Stress on the Endocrine System in the Round Stingray, Urobatis halleri
Current Undergraduate Students:
Larissa Balogh
Major: Biochemistry. HHMI Honors in Biological Sciences
Cynthia Gillespie
Major: Biology, option in Physiology, with a Chemistry minor. CSULB McNair Scholars Program
Alain Hawayek
Major: Biology. MSD program
Jesus Reyes
Major: Marine Biology. MSD Program
Past Graduate Students:
Greg Nicholson
Project: The Insulin-regulated Glucose Transporter System in an Ectothermic Vertebrate: Studies in the Diabetic Teleost Fish, Gillichthys mirabilis. Abstract
Kameron Schmidt
Project: Growth and Metabolic Adaptation During Hibernation in the Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus lateralis: Physiological Mechanisms to Survive the Cold Sierra Nevada Winter. Project Abstract
Salina Arope
Project:
Prakash Desai
Project: Cell Surface Association of Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-2 (IGFBP-2) and the Regulation of Kidney Mesangial Cell Growth Activity.
Robert Flores
Project: Mediation by Cortisol of Diabetes-Related Symptomatologies in the Gobiid Teleost, Gillichthys mirabilis: Role in Metabolism and Somatic Growth.
Julie Roth
Project: cDNA Cloning of a Metabolically Regulated Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-1 (IGFBP-1) in a Diabetic Goby, Gillichthys mirabilis