Principal Investigator
Peter Lwigale, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of BioSciences
Graduate Students
Matthew Garis
PhD candidate
Department of BioSciences
mg105@rice.edu
Project: Role of extracellular matrix during corneal development and adult homeostasis
Research Technician
Evelyn Chiu
Department of BioSciences
esc8@rice.edu
Project: Role of extracellular matrix during corneal development and wound healing
Visiting Scientists
Dr. Eimi Suzuki (MD)
Department of Ophthalmology
Wakayama Medical School, JAPAN.
es82@rice.edu
Project: Role of extracellular matrix during adult Cornea wound healing in mice.
Rocío Belén Marquez
Graduate Student
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas (INTECH), Argentina.
rm158@rice.edu
Project: Role of miRNA during EMT/MET of neural crest cells during formation of the trigeminal ganglion.
Kamryn Gerner-Mauro
Graduate student
Baylor College of Medicine
Kamryn.Gerner-Mauro@bcm.edu
Project: branching morphogenesis of the lung. She is experienced in mouse lung development and has taken on a cross-species comparison project for her thesis. As a visiting student in the Lwigale Lab, she has uncovered the morphological and molecular differences in lung branching morphogenesis between mice and chickens.
Undergraduates
Erin Chen
Department of BioSciences
ec82@rice.edu
Project: Role of extracellular matrix during ocular development