Current lab members
2023 - 2025
Veronica Useche
Masters of Science Candidate
HCN channels regulate ion transport in insect MTs
2022 - 2025
Emily Pham
HCN channels regulate ion transport in mosquito MTs
2024 -
Callie Steppat
Master's of Science Candidate
Voltage-gated and mechanosensitive ion channels in insect Malpighian tubules; endocrine regulation of ion transport.
Past Mentees and Lab Alumni
2023
Anabella Shepherd
2021- 2024
Masters of Science
2023 - 2024
Dexter Hayes
Western blotting in MTs
2021 - 2023
Alexis Castaneda
Voltage-gated ion channels in caterpillar epithelia
2022 - 2023
Jordyn Tracey
Immunohistochemical detection of voltage-gated and mechanosensitive ion channels in insect epithelia
2022 - 2024
Morgan Marcue
VGICs regulate ion transport in the Malpighian tubules
2021- 2022
Gianna Schiappa
2022- 2023
Hayla Atkins
Ion transport mechanisms in the Malpighian tubules of the larval Trichoplusia ni
2021 - 2022
Nancy Ramirez
2021 - 2022
Emilie Serna
Effects of hormones on the fluid ion content of the Malpighian tubules of larval lepidopterans
2021
Ivan Gonzalez
Effects of hormones on the fluid secretion rate of the Malpighian tubules of larval lepidopterans
2021
Michelle Solorio
2021
Mark Lopez Sanchez
2021
Sandy Lastor
Aaida Arpa (McMaster U)
2020-2021
2021
Trevor Karpinski
2021
Hannah Hausknecht-Buss
NSF-REU scholar at CSUSM
Transcriptomic response of mosquito epithelia in response to salinity acclimation and blood-feeding
2023
Andrea Crucena
2023 - 2024
Kennedi Yuhas
2023 - 2024
Adriana Cacho
2024 - 2025
Baili Popal
Microbiome of caterpillar MTs
2025 -
Renaldo Orozco
2024 - 2025
Alice Ho
Bioassays in insect MTs
2024 - 2025
Onyca Reyes-Saechao
2024 - 2025
Miranda Dela Cruz
Bioassays of insect MTs
2023 - 2024
Kira Halley
2024 -
Talia Dahms
Masters of Science Candidate
Does microbiome of caterpillar MTs affect the excretory function of the organ? (bioassays)
2026
Allie Adkins
2026
Klara Mendoza
2026
Chantelle Waters-Jackson
2024 -
Victoria Naficy
URISE Scholar
Voltage-gated ion channels in the Malpighian tubules of Drosophila melanogaster
2024 -
Jasmine O'Hara
Masters Student
Comparative physiology of ion transport mechanisms in the Malpighian tubules of larval lepidopterans
2024 -
Noah Murphy
URISE Scholar
Na+ balance
in larval lepidopterans
2024 -
Joleen Wobby
URISE Scholar
Helicokinin isoforms regulate ion transport, water permeability, and septate junction permeability in Malpighian tubules of larval T. ni
Vanessa Marocha
(McMaster U)
2019-2020
Neha Anwar
(McMaster U)
2018-2020
Gayatri Sivaratnam
(McMaster U)
2017-2018
Harish Ravisangar
(McMaster U)
2017-2018
Maria Tauqir
(McMaster U)
2016-2017
