The Collins Lab
Lab Members

Catherine Collins, Principal Investigator
collinca@umich.edu
lab phone: 734-647-8427
office phone: 734-764-4363
Cathy started the lab in winter of 2008 (pictured here), after a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis, and, before that, graduate work at UCSF. She can attest that Januaries in Michigan are cold, but the summers are beautiful.

Nicolette Ognjanovski
Graduate Student
nnognjan@gmail.com

Jiaxing Li
Graduate Student
jiaxing@umich.edu

Xin Xiong
Graduate Student
xinxiong@umich.edu

Bibhudatta (Bibhu) Mishra
post-doctoral fellow
PhD from Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg (ZMNH) Germany
mishrab@umich.edu

Susan Klinedinst
post-doctoral fellow
PhD from University of Michigan
sklinedi@umich.edu

Yan Hao
Graduate Student
candyhao@umich.edu

Pushpanjali Soppina
Research Technician
psoppina@umich.edu


Current Undergraduates


Jen Diep

Ross Carson

Alumni (Dearly missed!)


Kan Sun
Research Scientist, 2010-2011.
Now at University of Michigan,
School of Public Health

Long Chen
Exchange student from PKU, Summer 2011.

Doug Nestorovski
Undergraduate honors thesis, 2009-2012. Currently in Medical School (U Penn)

Travis Washington
Undergraduate technician, 2010-2012. Currently in Medical School
(Oakland University)

Dongkeun (Ken) Lee
Undergraduate honors thesis, 2009-2011. Now doing service in Korean military

Xin Wang
Graduate Student 2008-2010, moved
to Bing Ye's lab.

Ju Yang
Exchange student from Tsinghua University,
Summer 2010. Now in graduate school at Columbia University.

Ronny Ewanek
Research Technician, 2008-2011.

Yiren Hu
Exchange student from Peking University, Summer 2009. Now in graduate school at UCSD

Tom Knorr
Undergraduate technician, 2010.
Currently in Medical School

Mary Sprader
Undergraduate technician, 2008-2011. Currently in Physical Therapy School.

Pavan Bhat
Now at Washington University School of Medicine

Natalie (Su-Inn) Kwok, Undergraduate researcher, 2011-2012

Aleric Soans, Research technician, 2008-2009