Dr. Golden graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1982 and worked as research tech for 2 years at University of Pennsylvania. He went to graduate school at Stony Brook University, then moved to Caltech for his post-doc with Paul Sternberg to learn about C. elegans. His first job was at Frederick Cancer Center in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Golden moved to NIDDK on the NIH campus in Bethesda in late 1999, where he studied meiotic divisions, early embryogenesis, and germ line development. He now models human diseases in C. elegans.

Dr. Golden graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1982 and worked as research tech for 2 years at University of Pennsylvania. He went to graduate school at Stony Brook University, then moved to Caltech for his post-doc with Paul Sternberg to learn about C. elegans. His first job was at Frederick Cancer Center in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Golden moved to NIDDK on the NIH campus in Bethesda in late 1999, where he studied meiotic divisions, early embryogenesis, and germ line development. He now models human diseases in C. elegans.

Janna Bednenko started working on ciliated protozoa during her PhD in Dr. Dorothy Shippen's lab at Texas A&M University. Her academic research included discovery of developmental regulation of telomerase in a ciliate Euplotes crassus and characterization of novel factors involved in small RNA-mediated genome rearrangement in Tetrahymena thermophila. Currently, Dr. Bednenko is a Head of Genetics at Tetragenetics, Inc., developing Tetrahymena strains to produce difficult-to-express membrane proteins for drug discovery purposes.

Cassandra Extavour received her BSc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto. Though a Toronto native, her academic life has been international: she obtained her PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and performed postdoctoral work at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete, Greece, and at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, a BBSRC Research Grant allowed her to transition to Research Associate in the Department of Zoology. In 2007 she established her independent laboratory in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University; she was promoted to Full Professor in 2014.

Dr. Gasch completed her PhD in Biochemistry at Stanford University before doing a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab/UC Berkeley. She has been a faculty member at UW-Madison for 12 years; her lab's research combines comparative and functional genomics, systems biology, genetics, and molecular biology to study how eukaryotes deal with stress and disease.

Dr. De Stasio trained at Brown University, receiving a PhD in molecular biology, and completed a postdoc in genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She undertook her first sabbatical with Bob Horvitz at MIT and her second as a Fulbright Fellow with Peter Swoboda at the Karolinska Institute outside of Stockholm, Sweden. She has been teaching and doing research with C. elegans at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college, since 1992. Her interests include: inclusive pedagogy, science communication, creating new tools and resources for teaching, social justice, & spreading more love and understanding in the world.

A Michigan native, Jane Kenney-Hunt earned a BSc from Alma College and a PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis. Before joining the Westminster College faculty in 2011, she performed postdoctoral research at Washington University School of Medicine and the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Ables earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. She received a Master's in Biology at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington before completing her PhD at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Ables was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, before joining the faculty at Eastern Carolina University.

Dr. De Stasio trained at Brown University, receiving a PhD in molecular biology, and completed a postdoc in genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She undertook her first sabbatical with Bob Horvitz at MIT and her second as a Fulbright Fellow with Peter Swoboda at the Karolinska Institute outside of Stockholm, Sweden. She has been teaching and doing research with C. elegans at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college, since 1992. Her interests include: inclusive pedagogy, science communication, creating new tools and resources for teaching, social justice, & spreading more love and understanding in the world.