Lawson Lab personnel

Aliece joined the lab in the summer of 2019 after graduating from Smith College, where she worked with zebrafish in Michael Barresi's lab. Aliece is working on projects related to vascular mural cells and helping to develop zebrafish models for Sturge-Weber syndrome. 

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.

See Feston's Lawson Lab publications. 

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.      

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 alaso investigating the mechanism-of-action for anti-lymphatic compounds identified in small molecule screens.

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.

See Masa's Lawson Lab publications. 

Ben joined the lab in 2020 after graduating from University of Rhode Island. He works with Masahiro Shin on studies relating to lymphatic development in zebrafish.