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 University of Massachusetts 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: Research Technician
Feston received his B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Clark University in Worcester. He is responsible for maintaining most of the transgenic and mutant zebrafish lines in the Lawson Lab facility. Feston also provides support for multiple ongoing projects in the Lawson Lab.
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Daneal Portman
Academic Role: Research Technician
Daneal received his B.S. in Biology from UMass Amherst in 2016. He is currently a research technician in the Lawson Lab working with Yu-Huan Shih.
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Yu-Huan Shih, PhD
Academic Role: Postdoc
Yu-Huan received his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham in the UK in 2010. Following postdoctoral training at the Mayo Clinic, Yu-Huan joined the Lawson Lab in 2016. His projects include investigating the development of mural cells and applying chemical genetic strategies to dissect vascular development.
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Masahiro Shin, PhD
Academic Role: Instructor
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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Samir Sissaoui, PhD
Academic Role: Postdoc
Samir joined the Lawson Lab from the University of Birmingham in 2010. Samir's work focuses on identifying the underlying epigenetic mechanisms that control artery and vein identity in the human genome.
