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Ralph is the Godfather of schistosome electrophysiology. He is old now, but he is definitely still living. As of now. Hold on, let me check again. Yep. As of right now. |
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Gunnar was a post-doc who has trained at Queen's University Belfast and in the laboratories of Chris Tschudi and Elisabetta Ullu at Yale before joining us in Iowa. He now divides his time between working in a malaria lab in Amsterdam and planning an invasion of Poland. |
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Marcel worked in the lab for a couple of years as an undergraduate, focusing on G-protein coupled receptors in schistosomes. He is now a pharmaceutical representative in eastern Iowa. At nights, he still dreams of seven transmembrane receptors. |
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Hanan has worked with us for over three years, moving with us from Michigan State to Iowa State. From the free-living flatworm Girardia tigrina, Hanan cloned the first neuropeptide receptor from the platyhelminth phylum and she dubbed it GtNPR1. She is now working back at Michigan State (on GPCRs!) and retains her appointment in Egypt at her home institution, the Theodore Bilharz Research Institute in Cairo, Egypt where she is a Faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry. |
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George worked in the laboratory at Michigan State. We inherited him from Jim Bennett's schistosome biochemistry laboratory. Altogether, George worked on schistosomes for almost 20 years. |
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Mary worked with us for almost four years at Michigan State, but she did not come with us to Iowa State--evidently her role as a wife and mother took precedence over her pioneering work on schistosome physiology and pharmacology. Mary was an expert at preparing the dispersed schistosome muscle cells. |
