🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

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I’m honored to have this opportunity to continue my work, and deeply grateful to all my mentors that have helped me get here: Adam Martin, Brady Weissbourd, @lowelab.bsky.social, James Nelson, and all of the friends and peer mentors who have helped along the way.

I will be hiring at all levels – postdoc, technician/research specialist, and PhD. If you are interested in exploratory science and organismal cell biology, please get in touch! (If you are applying to grad school right now, UM applications are still open!)

Our initial focus will be on mechanisms of cell adhesion and morphogenesis. How did the first animals hold their cells together? Are there deeply conserved mechanisms underlying embryonic morphogenesis in metazoans?

I’m delighted to share that I will be starting my lab @univmiami.bsky.social in Spring 2025! We will study cellular and developmental biology in non-bilaterian animals – cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans, and sponges – to explore early animal evolution.