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Lab Personnel
Meet the dedicated team of researchers working in the Blumenthal Lab.
Edward Blumenthal PhD, PI
Primary Investigator
Ed has been a faculty member in the Marquette University Department of Biological Sciences since 2003.
Danny Hodell
PhD Student
Danny investigates how the loss of the peritrophic matrix due to the knockdown of the drop-dead gene functionally alters the cardia in Drosophila and how this affects the composition and stability of the microbiome.
Unnati Sharma
Undergraduate Researcher
Unnati’s research currently focuses on the effects of drd in the tracheae, specifically on larval development.
Join The Lab
We welcome motivated graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in neurodegeneration, animal development, and organismal genetics. To get in touch, email edward.blumenthal@marquette.edu. For more information about the graduate program in Biological Sciences, click below.
