The Talbot Lab

Jared Talbot

Principal Investigator

Jared Talbot investigates skeletal muscle formation using zebrafish embryos and uses these developmental processes to understand human health and disease. His research in developmental biology began while a graduate student in Charles Kimmel’s laboratory at the University of Oregon, and he began to investigate muscle development while working in Sharon Amacher’s lab initially at the University of California Berkeley and later at The Ohio State University. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Maine in the School of Biology and Ecology.

Matthew Akers

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Matt is an undergraduate student studying Biology with a Pre-Med concentration at the University of Maine. Matt joined the Talbot lab in 2020. 

Sadie Waterman

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sadie is an undergraduate student studying biology at the University of Maine in the class of 2023. She has been working in the Talbot Lab to perform genetic crosses between zebrafish lines and later collecting the offspring for genotyping. Sadie also assists the imaging process of fish treated with various small molecules to determine the effects of specific treatments on fin muscle formation.

Sabrina Varga

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sabrina is a student at the University of Maine majoring in Biology with a Pre-Med concentration and a minor in Studio Art. She works in the Talbot Lab on the small molecule screen.

Kaitlyn Bear

Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Sara Loiselle

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sara is working on her undergraduate degree in Zoology with a minor in Anthropology at the University of Maine. She joined Jared Talbot's lab in 2020 and is currently assisting Dr. Talbot with the chemical screening process in zebrafish in order to look for signaling chemicals and changes in muscle migratory precursor cells.

Mika Gallati

Research Assistant 2019-2020

Mika recently received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Maine in December of 2019. She has been working in the Talbot Lab to genotype zebrafish lines and to determine the effect of a double homozygous mutant on embryo development through the interruption of the core spliceosome.

Marianthi Cala

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Marianthi is graduating with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Neuroscience. She has been working on experiments aimed at towards moving the fin field by disrupting RA synthesis. Then, observing MMP streams to investigate the relation between somite proximity and fin bud development.

Bri Romano

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Bri is receiving her B.S. in Biology in May from the University of Maine. She has been working on a small molecule screen in the Talbot Lab.