Goodman Lab In The Department of Molecular
and Cellular Physiology

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Principal Investigator
Miriam Goodman

Postdoctoral Scholars
Juan G. Cueva
Amy Eastwood
Michael Krieg
Sam Lasse
Valeria Vásquez
Dong Wang

Graduate Student

Dean Lockhead

Technical Staff

Carmen Liao

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Undergraduate Researcher
Administrative Associate
Jzesern Tan
July 2010
 

Dr. Miriam Goodman Academic Profile
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Hometown: Lexington, Massachusetts
University: Brown University (Sc. B.), University of Chicago (Ph.D.)

It might be surprising to imagine that Dr. Miriam Goodman once considered careers in business consulting, pharmaceuticals and plumbing before becoming a neuroscientist. Take a closer look at her lab, though, and you’ll find that Dr. Goodman is much more than just a researcher. Her job as Principal Investigator of the lab not only Show more...

Dr. Juan G. Cueva
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Hometown: Hacienda Heights, California
University: University of California, Los Angeles (B.S., Ph.D.)

Dr. Juan Cueva became the first postdoctoral scholar to join the Goodman Lab in 2003. From his first research experience as an undergraduate, Dr. Cueva recognized that his curiosity and love for learning something new every day were a perfect match for a career in research. He is presently working on sensory transduction, looking to better understand the molecular mechanisms that underlie the activation of the mechanical Show more...

Juan Cueva

Dr. Amy Eastwood Academic Profile
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Hometown: Richmond, Virginia
University: University of Virginia (B.S.), Caltech University (Ph.D.)

Dr. Amy Eastwood’s career has not just bloomed—it has rocketed.  From her takeoff in high school where her chemistry teacher inspired her to pursue a career in science, Dr. Eastwood obtained her Ph.D. at Caltech University, which in turn drew her interest to look at her research on ion channels in a morenatural environment. Show more...

Dr. Shana Geffeney Academic Profile
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Hometown: Los Angeles, California
University: University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A.), Utah State University (Ph.D.)

Dr. Shana Geffeney likes to think of herself as a detective. She takes pleasure in finding the clues to understand how things happen and works with her colleagues to answer the questions on how animals sense the outside world. Currently, Dr. Geffeney is finding out how sensory cells respond to mechanical stimuli, chemical signs and osmolarity using the sensory neuron ASH. By looking at Show more...

Shana Geffeney

Dr. Dominique Glauser Academic Profile
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Hometown: Cernier, Switzerland
University: Neuchâtel University (B.S.), Geneva University (Ph.D.)

From a young age, Dr. Dominique Glauser took a great interest in science. He liked learning about different things and getting explanations as to why they work the way they do. When it came to neural science, however, the explanations were still in development and Dr. Glauser knew he wanted to learn more about it. His search for Show more...

Dr. Brandon Johnson
johnsbe-[at]-stanford-[dot]-edu
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
University: Lake Forest College (B.S.), Stanford Univeristy (Ph.D.)

Meet Dr. Brandon Johnson, circa age 8: a kid captivated by all of his science classes and dreaming of setting off on epic Jacques Cousteau-type of adventures. Now add a piercing, a family of his own, and the Goodman Lab instead of a classroom and you’ve got the Dr. Johnson of the 21st century. Dr. Johnson is passionate about his research in electrophysiology and a real outdoorsman Show more...

Dr. Valeria Vásquez
vvr-[at]-stanford-[dot]-edu
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
University: Universidad Central de Venezuela (B.S.), University of Virginia (Ph.D.)

After the first conference she attended in Margarita, Venezuela in 1999 at which she presented her work with electromicroscopy in plants, Dr. Valeria Vásquez knew that science was her passion. She first worked with ion channels in Dr. Eduardo Perozo’s lab at the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago and felt immediately hooked by these membrane proteins. From plants and Show more...

Dr. Dong Wang
wangdong-[at]-stanford-[dot]-edu
Hometown: Pujiang, China
University: Zhejiang University (B.S.), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Ph.D.)

In October 2009, Dr. Dong Wang literally travelled across the world to join the Goodman Lab team at Stanford University. Before his arrival, Dr. Wang worked at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he studied to obtain his Ph.D. by examining the regulation of ion secretion in airway epithelial cells, focusing mainly on CFTR chloride channels and their sensitivity to mechanical stimulation. Dr. Wang contacted Dr. Goodman after Show more...

Rebecca Agin
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Hometown: Bay Area, California
University: University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A.), Foothill College (A.A.)

While studying marine biology at UC Santa Cruz, Rebecca Agin says that the best advice her advisor gave her was never to neglect the basic courses and to keep applying genetics, molecular biology, and other fields to marine biology. Since then, Agin has gone from being a scuba instructor to getting an associate art degree in graphic and information design and from working with NASA’s education division developing its science curricula to working for a start-up Show more...

Carmen Liao
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Hometown: Guangzhou, China
University: Medical School of Guangzhou (M.D.)

If the Goodman Lab were a puzzle, Carmen Liao would not only be the one helping to put it together, but she would also be the one making sure none of the pieces got lost when putting it away and the first one to know where it was when someone came looking for it. As the lab’s technician, Liao is responsible for helping piece together the parts of the lab’s projects and plays a key role in preventing the stress ensued by losing track of things. After Show more...

Carmen Liao

Don Vongviphut
donvong-[at]-stanford-[dot]-edu
Hometown: Torrance, California
University: Stanford University (B.S. in progress)

Don Vongviphut had heard some of the crazy stories from his friends about certain research labs at Stanford. But when he became interested in genetics after a course he took in his third year, Vongviphut got in contact with the Goodman Lab for an opportunity to do some work in research and was happy to find that everybody was, well, “pretty awesome.” Taking off from literature by former lab member Show more...

Jzesern Tan
jstan-[at]-stanford-[dot]-edu
Hometown: Mountain View, California
University: University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A.)

What does it take a film and digital media student to come work as an administrative associate at a Stanford University research lab? For Jzesern Tan, a whole lot of guts and a good dose of curiosity was almost all he needed. Tan took a turn in his career not only for a change of pace, but also to keep finding out new information as to how things work and, as a result, always keep Show more...

 

—Compiled by Stéphanie Keller-Busque,
undergraduate at McGill University

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