The Talbot Lab

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.

Tayo Adekeye is a PhD student in the Talbot lab. He did Masters work in the University Ibadan, Nigeria, on how human genetics influences disease susceptibility, before joining the Talbot lab in 2021. He has taken lead on the lab's muscle physiology project. Tayo has also developed teaching skills by TAing Bio336 (Fall 2021) and leading it via the Hunter Teaching Fellowship in Fall 2022.

Emily majored in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Maine. She began work in the Talbot lab in Fall of 2020 and graduated May of 2021, before joining the Talbot lab for graduate work. Her project is focused on musculoskeletal physiology and disease.

Teresa joined the Talbot lab via the MBS program; she is leading the lab's screen to identify new factors that control muscle precursor migration. She has also twice TAed for Bio450 and once for Bio336.

Sean is working on a marine sciences degree, in the class of 2023. They joined the Talbot lab in Fall of 2021 and is working on the muscle precursor migration project. In Summer 2022 Sean learned the ropes of laboratory research via a BoiME-funded internship; in Spring 2023 they are doing a capstone project.

Sadie is an undergraduate student studying biology at the University of Maine in the class of 2023. Sadie has worked on both of the labs projects, but for the last two years she's taken the helm of a new antibody-development and testing project in the muscle physiology wing of the lab; she was awarded a CUGR fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year and is currently working on her capstone semester.

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Ryn is working on her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Maine. They joined the Talbot lab in Spring of 2022 and are working on a Capstone in the Distal Arthrogryposis project. In Winter 2023, they are beginninh work as our full-time lab technician.

Mason began work in the Talbot lab in Spring of 2022 as a Freshman, and has since started digging in to the muscle physiology project with Tayo. 

Kailee is a Biology major at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where she works with Judith Roe. She joined our lab for an INBRE program in Summer 2022, when she made excellent contributions to the muscle physiology story.

Allie is a biology Freshman, who joined the Talbot lab via the Top Scholar Program in fall of 2022. She hit the ground running with an experiment the same day she interviewed and it will be exciting to see where her work leads!