Welcome to the joint Starr and Luxton Lab website!
People
Dan Starr, Ph.D. (dastarr@ucdavis.edu), Principal Investigator
GW Gant Luxton, Ph.D. (ggluxton@ucdavis.edu), Principal Investigator
Rebecca McGillivary, Ph.D. (rmmcgillivary@ucdavis.edu), Postdoc; Research Interest: Regulation of LINC complex assembly & mechanobiology of the cell.
Daniel Elnatan, Ph.D. (delnatan@ucdavis.edu), Asst. Project Scientist; Research Interest: Application of neural networks in image processing and high-throughput screening.
Chih-Fen Hu, M.D., Ph.D. (cfhu@ucdavis.edu), Visiting Scholar; Research Interest: DYT1 dystonia genetic study and how TOR1A affects the disease onset and progression in neural circuits.
Selin Gümüşderelioğlu (sgumus@ucdavis.edu), BMCDB Ph.D. Candidate; Research Interest: Characterizing the role of motor proteins in rare diseases, and the role of cargo adaptors in molecular motor choice for nuclear migration.
Xiangyi Ding (xyiding@ucdavis.edu), IGG Ph.D Candidate; Research Interest: LINC complexes mediated functional nucleolar biogenesis in tissue culture cell and C.elegans.
Matthew Laurence (mjlaurence@ucdavis.edu), BPH Ph.D. Student; Research Interest: Investigating the role of LINC complexes and microtubules in nuclear
positioning in the cell.
