Department of Biology  
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859  
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Current Lab Members
 
Dr. Cynthia Damer  
Cynthia Damer   Cynthia was a neuroscience major at Oberlin College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1990. She then went on to graduate school at the University of Virginia where she earned her PhD in neuroscience in 1995 working in the lab of Dr. Carl Creutz. Her dissertation research was on the biochemical characterization of the synaptic vesicle protein, synaptotagmin. Next, Cynthia took a visiting assistant professor position at Whitman College for one year before beginning her postdoctoral work with Dr. Theresa O'Halloran at Duke University. As a postdoc, Cynthia studied clathrin function in Dictyostelium. After her postdoc, she was an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Vassar College where she began studying the function of a novel family of proteins called copines using Dictyostelium. She is currently a professor in the Biology Department at Central Michigan University.
 
Janet Price  
  Janet joined the lab in January of 2011 as an undergraduate. She earned her BS in May of 2012. She has continued in the lab as a masters student.
 
Dexter McKellar
Dexter joined in the lab in March of 2012 and plans to graduate in May 2014.
 
Andrew Banas
Andrew joined the lab in January of 2013 and plans to graduate in May of 2014.
 
Bria Graham
Bria joined the lab in May of 2013 and plans to graduate in May of 2016.