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Eugenia Sanchez Gutierrez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am currently working with tadpoles and frogs to identify areas of their brains differentially activated upon alkaloid consumption across developmental stages.
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Johannes Daniel Scharwies
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
BioJohannes received his BSc from the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) in Plant Biotechnology in the Fruit Science laboratory of Prof. Moritz Knoche. Inspired by research on water relations of fruit in the Knoche laboratory, Johannes joined the group of Prof. Stephen Tyerman at The University of Adelaide (Australia) with funding through the German Academic Exchange Service. Initially, his work focused on hydraulic properties of grape clusters for which he received his MSc in Agricultural Science. Afterwards, he joined the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology through the Tyerman laboratory and specialised in molecular plant physiology by studying the role of aquaporins in plant responses to drought for a PhD. He investigated aquaporins, which are molecular channels in plant membranes that provide a gating mechanism for water fluxes and other small molecules, through a combination of gene expression analysis and utilization of transgenic overexpression and CRISPR-Cas9 knockout lines. His work was funded by the highly competitive Adelaide Scholarship International and a Supplementary Scholarship provided by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology. In April 2018, Johannes joins the laboratory of Assoc. Prof. José Dinneny at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Scholar.
Johannes research focuses on plant hydraulics from a molecular scale up to whole plants. He is interested on how plants perceive and adapt to changes in the environment in particular related to water. This ranges from developmental decisions to molecular control of water movement, for example through aquaporins. In José Dinneny's lab, he will continue work on hydropatterning, a phenomenon investigated in this laboratory previously. -
Jennifer Selgrath, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hopkins Marine Station
BioDr. Jennifer Selgrath is a Postdoctoral Scholar who specializes in social-ecological systems, conservation, historical ecology, participatory action research, landscape ecology, and resilience. In her research she uses an interdisciplinary approach to assess biodiversity change in Monterey Bay over the past two centuries. She also works on long-term changes in the sustainability of small-scale fisheries, explores the connection between fisheries and governance, evaluates the influence of multiple-stressors on the resilience of coral reefs, and assesses the adaptive capacity of coastal communities to climate change.
Jenny completed her Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of British Columbia with Project Seahorse and the Landscape Ecology Group, situated in both the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries and Forest and Conservation Sciences. She earned her M.Sc. in Biology from San Diego State University and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She is a former Fulbright Scholar (Philippines).
