Lawson Lab personnel
Nathan Lawson
Nathan received his B.S. in Zoology from the University of Rhode Island in 1994 and his PhD from Yale in Biology in 1999. After a postdoc at National Institutes of Health, he joined the UMass Chan Medical School in 2002. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology.
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Feston Idrizi
Academic Role: Graduate student
After receiving his B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Clark University in Worcester, Feston joined the Lawson Lab as a technician. He is now a graduate student in the lab studying the development of vascular mural cells.
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Amy Kolb
Academic Role: Research technician - aquatics
Amy graduated from Hofstra and obtained her Masters degree in marine biology from University of Rhode Island. Amy joined the Lawson Lab in 2020 and is currently responsible for overseeing zebrafish stocks, line maintenance, and supporting generation of new transgenic and mutant lines.
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Sarah Oikemus, PhD
Academic Role: Research Scientist
Sarah received her Ph.D. from the UMass Chan Medical School and joined the Lawson lab in 2020. Sarah's current projects focus on optimizing conditions for targeted knock-in in the zebrafish genome. She is also working on cell-based and zebrafish models for Sturge-Weber Syndrome.
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Masahiro Shin, PhD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor
Masahiro received his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan. He has been funded in the Lawson Lab by fellowships from the the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Uehara Memorial Foundation. He is currently studying lymphatic development in the zebrafish.
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Ryan Singer
Academic Role: Research technician
Ryan joined the lab in 2022 after graduating from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He works with Masahiro Shin on studies relating to lymphatic development and applying conditional genetics in zebrafish.
