Antonio studied Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Cadiz and the University Autonoma of Madrid. During undergraduate, he worked with Gines Morata at the CBM in Madrid. Antonio did his PhD with Stephen Cohen at the EMBL (Heidelberg) (1998-2002) and a post-doc with Alex Schier at the Skirball Institute (NYU) and Harvard (2003-2006). Antonio is currently an Associate Professor in the Genetics Department at Yale University and is part of the Interdepartmental program in Developmental Biology (2007- ) . GiraldezBiosketch-June2011  Giraldez Yale CV  Pubmed

e-mail: alison.staton-at-yale.edu

Alison studied Biology at the University of Dayton (2002-2006), where she worked in the laboratory of Carissa Krane. Alison’s undergraduate research focused on mammalian fluid homeostasis, and particularly in the application of functional genetics to the study of aquaporins in mice.

She joined the BBS graduate program at Yale in 2006, and since March 2007 her efforts have focused on the regulation of chemokine signaling through by microRNAs during zebrafish development

e-mail: daniel.cifuentes-at-yale.edu

Daniel studied Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Barcelona. He did his PhD with Joan J. Guinovart at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona) (2000-2006). There he studied the mechanisms that control glycogen synthesis, their evolution and their misfunction in pathologies such as diabetes or Lafora disease. Daniel is currently a Postdoc Associate in the Giraldez Lab at the Genetics Department at Yale University (2008- ). Daniel is dissecting the microRNA pathway in zebrafish by generating mutations in the different components involved in microRNA maturation and processing using Zn Finger Nucleases.

e-mail: carter.takacs-at-yale.edu

Carter studied Antrhopology at the University of Albany (SUNY). He did his Master at Dartmouth School of Medicine with Kevin Peterson, studying metazoan evolution. Then he moved to Yashi Ahmed’s lab where he studied the role of APC1 and APC2 in the wingless signaling pathway. Carter Defended his PhD in Feb 2008 and started in the Giraldez Lab in sep 2008, where he is studying the role of microRNAs during brain morphogenesis in zebrafish.

e-mail: donna.karpel-at-yale.edu

Before coming to Yale, Donna worked Bayer Healthcare for 10 years as an Administrative Assistant for the VP of Drug Safety and The Research department. Donna now, takes care of all the paper work in the Giraldez Lab, and her role is vital for Antonio’s sanity.

e-mail: Heather.Patnode-at-yale.edu

Heather completed her degree in Applied Science in 2007 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. As an undergraduate she analyzed gene expression in zebrafish using in situ hybridization.  After graduation Heather completed an internship at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi, India in the lab of Dr. Sridhar Sivasubbu.  From December 2007 to July 2009, she worked in the zebrafish and molecular biology labs of the Genomics Technology Access Center (GTAC) at UW-Stout under the supervision of Dr. Michael A. Pickart. Heather began working in the Giraldez Lab in July 2009, where she cares for the fish, maintains the aquariums and supportive equipment, and provides technical and managerial assistance in the lab

e-mail: Ariel.Bazzini-at-yale.edu

Ariel studied Biology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998-2003). Then he did his PhD in the Asurmendi’s lab in the biotechnology institute, INTA, Argenitna, where he studied plant virus infections, mechanisms to confer viral resistance and the role of microRNAs during viral infection. He defended his PhD in Nov 2007 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He did a short post-doc in the same lab working in metabolic and microRNAs profiles during virus infection in plants. He joined the Giraldez Lab at the Genetics Department at Yale University in Feb 2010 where he is studying translation and the function of RNA-binding proteins during the materna-to-zygotic transition in zebrafish.

e-mail: Minsun.Jeong-at-yale.edu

Minsun studied Biosciences at Seoul National University (2004-2007) in Korea. After graduation, she worked in the Protein Biochemistry Lab of C.H. Chung (2007-2009) at SNU, studying BAG2 ubiquitination in TNF-ß signaling. She entered the BBS graduate program at Yale in 2009 and joined the Giraldez Lab in the Genetics Department in 2010 May. Minsun has focused on the mechanism of small RNA processing in zebrafish.

e-mail: miler.lee-at-yale.edu

Miler earned a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 2000, and then an M.S. in computer science in 2002.  He earned his Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania from the Genomics and Computational Biology program, where he worked with Junhyong Kim on describing modular characteristics of RNA structures.  He joined the Giraldez Lab as a Postdoctoral Associate in February 2011 and is investigating the roles of non-coding RNA in the maternal-to-zygotic transition in zebrafish.

e-mail: simon.moxon-at-yale.edu

Simon earned a BSc in Genetics from the University of Liverpool in 1999 and then went on to complete an MSc in Software Engineering at the university in 2001. He then joined the Bateman Group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2003 where he worked on the Pfam and Rfam databases. In 2005 he started a PhD at the University of East Anglia where he worked jointly with Vincent Moulton and Tamas Dalmay studying computational methods for classification of small RNAs and their targets. After completing his PhD he continued working in the Moulton/Dalmay labs as a Senior Research Associate (2009-2011). He joined the Giraldez Lab as a Postdoctoral Associate in April 2011 and is investigating the roles small regulatory RNAs during early zebrafish development.

e-mail: magdalena.koziol-at-yale.edu

Magda studied Medical Genetics at the University of Leicester, UK.  She did her PhD in John Gurdon's lab at the University of Cambridge, UK, identifying novel molecules that initiate nuclear reprogramming (2003-2007). After spending two years working for the Boston Consulting Group, she joined John Rinn’s laboratory at the Harvard University and the Broad Institute, where she worked on interactions between proteins and long non-coding RNAs. Magda joined Antonio Giraldez lab at Yale University in june 2011 and is elucidating how the zygotic genome gets activated at the earliest stages of embryogenesis.

e-mail: Ashley.Bonneau-at-yale.edu

Ashley studied Biology at California State University, Channel Islands (2008-2011). She worked in the laboratory of Dr. Nitika Parmar, where her research focused on investigating the effects of RhebL1 silencing on the mTOR pathway. Ashley entered the BBS graduate program at Yale University in 2011 and joined the Giraldez Lab in May of 2012. She is currently studying genes important to early zebrafish development through a maternal and zygotic genetic screen.

e-mail: valeria.yartseva-at-yale.edu

Valeria holds a dual undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley in Neurobiology and Psychology. After graduating in 2009, she took a Research Associate position in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava at the J. David Gladstone Institutes in UCSF where she worked on understanding regulation of cardiac microRNAs.  She joined BBS graduate program at Yale University in 2011 where she is also a HHMI-NIH Medical Research Scholar. Valeria's research is focused on understanding mechanisms regulating maternal mRNA clearance during early zebrafish development. 

e-mail: Ellen.Hoffman-at-yale.edu

Ellen studied biochemistry at Stony Brook Honors College (1995-1999). She received an MD with Recognition in Research degree from SUNY Stony Brook (1999-2003), where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Gail Mandel. She did her residency training in general psychiatry (2003-2006) and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry (2006-2008) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. During her residency, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Deanna Benson, studying the cell adhesion molecule L1, and during her fellowship, she worked with Dr. Joseph Buxbaum, studying the genetics of autism. Ellen is currently a research fellow at the Yale Child Study Center in the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Research Training Program, where she is involved in a collaboration between the laboratory of Matthew State and the Giraldez laboratory. She is working on developing a zebrafish model for studying rare variants in candidate genes in autism spectrum disorders.