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Barry Trimmer (Lab Director) William Woods
Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Email: barry.trimmer@tufts.edu
Personal Web Page
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Interests: Ecological physiology, insect behavioral energetics, plant-insect interations
Email: william.woods@tufts.edu
John Rieffel Michael Doire
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Interests: Morphological Computation/Communication, Evolution
Email:
john.rieffel@tufts.edu
jf  Research Coordinator
Res Interests: Soft-bodied robotics, Tissue Engineering, 3D Modeling
Email: michael.doire@tufts.edu
 
Michael Simon Huai-ti Lin
 Graduate Research Student
Research Interests: Neural control
Email: michael.simon@tufts.edu
Graduate Research Student
Research interests: Animal Locomotion, Biomechanics, Functional Morphology, Neuro., Biophysics
Email: Huai-ti.Lin@tufts.edu
Linnea vanGriethuijsen James Marquis
Graduate Research Student
Research Interests: Animal Locomotion, Neurobiology, Neuroethology
Em linnea.van_griethuijsen@tufts.edu
lv Undergraduate Research Student
Research Interests:
Email: jim.marquis@gmail.com
Meghan Kate Paul M. Cavallaro
Graduate Research Student
Research Interests: Design & bio-
med. apps. for soft-bodied robots
Email: Meghan.Kate@tufts.edu
Undergraduate Research Student
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Invertebrate Phys, & Animal Behavior
Email: Paul.Cavallaro@tufts.edu

 
Edwin C. Peck  
Undergraduate Research Student
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Electrophysiology & Neuromuscular
Email: Edwin.Peck@tufts.edu
 
 

Former Lab Members
Margaux Birdsall (undergrad research student) Steven Fusillo (undergrad research student)
Matthew Hurley (former Research Engineer) Lindsay Gamirian (undergrad research student)
Daniel Hake (former Grad Student/Mechanical Engr.) Johnathan Issberner (Post Doc)
Jessica Bosc (former MS. student 2001-3) Russell Benuck (MS Biomed Engineering 2004)


 

Dr. Anke Vermehren (Ph.D. student 2004) Kathleen Egan (Senior honors thesis 2002)
Currently: Post Doc
Department of Integrative Biosciences
611 SW Campus Drive
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR 97239
Personal Web Page
Email:
vermehre@ohsu.edu 
Currently:
Graduate Student
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Yale University
Personal Web Page
Email:
kathy.egan@yale.edu
Kara Coleman (REU  Summer Fellow 2004)
Email:
kacole@wm.edu
Ryan Snyder (Summer fellow 2004)
Email:
ryan.snyder@tufts.edu
Glenda Molina (U/grad 2004) Anne Takesian (U/grad 2003)
Dr. Ricardo Zayas (former Ph.D. student 2002) Dr. Jim H. Belanger (Post Doc 1997-1999)
Currently:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Cell & Structural Biology
B107 CLSL (MC-123)
601 Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: 217.244.4504
Fax: 217.244.1648
Email: rzayas@life.uiuc.edu 

Currently: Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences A212 Life Sciences Annex Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Email: jimb@lsu.edu
Lab Page @ LSU: http://www.biology.lsu.edu/webfac/jbelange/jimlab.html

Dr. Sanjive Qazi (Post Doc 1992-2000) Dr. Margaret Boch-Qazi (Post Doc 1999-2000)
Currently: Senior Scientist
Parker Hughes Cancer Institute
2665 Long Lake Road
St. Paul MN 55113

Email: sqazi@ih.org 

Currently: Assistant Professor
Gustavus Adolphus College
Nobel Hall of Science Rm. 329
St. Peter, Minnesota 56082

Email: mqazi@gustavus.edu

Dr. David Fickbohm (Post Doc 1995-97) Dr. Alice Wang (former Ph.D. student 1998)