The below is a new picture taken on Dec. 17 with a digital camera. Then Jamie has been back to Canada for about half a year. There are two most recent additions in our lab: Zhuang Song (graduate student) and Yuri Shostak (postdoc).
That's "Principle (not Private) Investigator". This is the Casagrande Lab's
eponymous P.I., Dr. Vivien A. Casagrande, A.K.A. THE BOSS.
She's the one who keeps a roof over our heads and reagents on the shelves.
And "Cracks that wip". Most famous for her research into the "Third Visual
Pathway", Viv is a Full Professor in the Dept. of Cell Biology, cross appointed
in the departments of Psychology and Ophthalmology, a member of the Vanderbilt
Vision Research Core and a Kennedy Center Investigator . And I'll put links
to all of those various web pages here someday.
Too new to have his own individual photo. Most recent addition to
the Casagrande Lab, Xu started the graduate program in Psychology the 1998
fall. Xu hails from Shiang Hi and found Nashville's summer weather cool
and non-humid (at least in comparison to his home town).
This is Jamie, hard at work. He was a post-doc here. What's a post-doc,
if you asked Jamie? He would answer like it is a "Burger Flipper of Science",
one of the over-educated underclass.
This is Julie Mavity-Hudson, Head Technician. She runs the place. Don't
argue with her. Queen of Immuno, Julie has never met an antibody she couldn't
get to work for her.
A
graduate student in Psychology, Jenn's research encompasses calcium binding
proteins, comparative neuroanatomy, and, most lately, corticothalamic feedback.
Jenn has some absolutely stunning photos of neurons and synaptic boutons
immunostained with calbindin and parvalbumin that I would like to post
here someday.
A
graduate student in the Cell Biology department, Amy's thesis project examines
the role of certain glycoproteins in the development of geniculocortical
innervation. She keeps mutant mice in the basement (I'll put up a picture,
though they don't look much different from regular mice). And if you have
ever wondered what it's like to live with a sickly geriatric cat, Amy can
tell you all you need to know.