Lab Photo

Lab Members

Andrew Gordus

Principal Investigator
agordus@jhu.edu

Amanda Ray

Graduate Student, CMDB Program
aray20@jhu.edu

Amanda is studying how information is interpreted in the worm brain and where variability can arise during interpretation.

Rebekka Paisner

Graduate Student, CMDB Program
rpaisne2@jhu.edu

Rebekka is studying the transgenerational inheritance of pathogen avoidance in C. elegans.

Greg Artiushin

Postdoctoral Fellow
grega@jhu.edu

Greg is studying where and when genes are expressed in the brain that are important for orb-weaving.

Hsin-Yi Hung

Graduate Student, Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience
hhung6@jhu.edu

Hsin-Yi is studying the role of leg movement on active vibrational sensing in spiders.

Darya Task

Postdoctoral Fellow
dtask1@jhu.edu

Darya is interested in developing genetic tools to study spider web-building behavior.

Jim Mullin

Graduate Student, CMDB Program
jmulli16@jhu.edu

Anthony Rabinovich

Undergraduate
arabino8@jhu.edu

Calvin Runnels

Graduate Student, CMDB Program
crunnel2@jhu.edu

Calvin is investigating the evolutionary history of orbweaving behavior and studying spider sexual dimorphism.

Lab Alumni

Ariel Parker

Graduate Student, CMDB Program
aparke45@jhu.edu

Ariel worked to understand if/how C. elegans chemosensory neurons can detect signal variance as information for dauer decision-making.

Jeremiah Miller

Graduate Student, CMDB Program
jmill3082@jhu.edu

Jeremiah assembled the genome of the spider Uloborus diversus and studied the effects of drugs on web-making.

Abel Corver

Graduate Student, Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience
acorver1@jhu.edu

Abel researched the decision-making algorithm that guides web-making and developed tools to study these algorithms in the spider's brain.

Rebecca Foertsch

Research Technologist
rfoerts1@jhu.edu

Andrew Margolis

Undergraduate

Jeffrey Zhou

Undergraduate

Lucas Polack

Undergraduate

Fiona Sweeney

Undergraduate

Iman Mosley

Research Technologist
imosley3@jhu.edu

Michelle Zhang

Undergraduate

Amanda Rodriquez

Undergraduate

Zachary Hsu

Undergraduate

Anastasia Miller

Research Technologist
amill139@jhu.edu

Anastasia worked on both spider and worm projects and kept the lab running.

Maya Filipovitz

High School Intern

Joaquin Reategui

Undergraduate

Elana Pyfrom

Research Technologist

Elana was a former staff member studying the variability of olfactory behavior and RNA mediation in chemosensory neurons. Elana left the Gordus lab to begin her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Miriam Herrera

High School Intern

Megha Tummalapalli

High School Intern

Nicolas Wilkerson

Research Technologist

After completing his undergraduate degree at Hopkins, Nick worked as a research technician in the Gordus lab. He developed computational tools for studying spider behavior. He is now enrolled at Atlantic Veterinary College at Univeristy of Prince Edward Island.

Leah Evans

Undergraduate

Andrew Massoud

Undergraduate

Liat Klopouh

Undergraduate