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Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Wendy Scott Beane

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wendy.beane (at) wmich.edu

Click here for Dr. Beane's CV

(5-year abbreviated here)

Dr. Beane

Graduate Mentor: 
David R. McClay, Duke University


Post-Doctoral Mentor:
Michael Levin, Tufts University

Undergraduate Mentor:
James S. Caldwell, Averett University

ABOUT: Dr. Beane is a Presidential Innovation Professor and Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Western Michigan University. She is also Collaborating Faculty with the research group of Dr. Yong Li, Division Chief of Medical Engineering at WMU's Homer Stryker School of Medicine. Dr. Beane got her PhD at Duke University in Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, and her BS at Averett University in Biomedical Sciences. She also holds a BA in English Literature.

Laboratory Manager
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Jacqueline Greene

Graduate Students
Jana Vuckovic

Jana Vučković  

(Doctoral)

Undergraduate Students
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Chase Willcutt

Dylan Schafer

Dylan Schafer

Anna Tomica

Anna Tomica

Scientist-in-Training
Spencer B. in 2015

Spencer B., 2015 

Spencer B. in 2019

Spencer B., 2019

Dr. Beane at Work in the Lab
Dr. Beane as a muppet
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