
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.
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.
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.
Lab Alumni
Marianthi Cala
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Marianthi is graduated with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Neuroscience in May of 2020. She worked on experiments aimed at towards moving the fin field by disrupting retinoic acid synthesis. Then, observing MMP streams to investigate the relation between somite proximity and fin bud development.