The Team
Carrie Albertin, Ph.D.
Assistant Scientist
Carrie Albertin received a B.A. in Biological Sciences and French from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. She then received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where she worked with Dr. Cliff Ragsdale on cephalopod genomics, transcriptomics, and embryology. In 2018, Carrie started her lab first as an Early Career Hibbitt Fellow, and now as an Assistant Scientist, at the Marine Biological Laboratory where her research program focuses on cephalopod development and evolution at a molecular and cellular level, with the goal of establishing cephalopods as a compelling model system for comparative evolutionary and developmental research.
Hibbitt Early Career Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory
Emeline (Emma) Kelley
Emma is an Research Assistant II in the Albertin Lab.
Jessica Stock, Ph.D.
Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow
Jess joined the lab in 2022 after receiving her Ph.D. working with Dr. Andrea Pauli at the IMP in Vienna, where she studied the role of a novel signaling molecule in zebrafish gastrulation. In the Albertin lab, she is studying molecular and cellular aspects of neurodevelopment in cephalopods.
Jennifer McCarthy-Taylor, Ph.D.
Jenny joined the lab in summer of 2023 after completing a PhD at UC Berkeley in the lab of Nipam Patel. Her focus was the role that Hox genes played in the body patterning and limb identity of crustaceans. Before starting in the Patel lab, she completed a master's at Cal Poly Pomona in the lab of Angel Valdes, where she worked on taxonomic revisions of sacoglossan sea slugs. Now as a Postdoc in the Albertin lab, she will combine her passion for body patterning and molluscan diversity by working on the role of Hox genes in body patterning in cephalopods.
Miranda Vogt
Miranda joined the lab in 2024, though she has been at the MBL since 2021 working with the Cephalopod Initiative learning to culture multiple cephalopod species through all life stages. She has a B.S. from Stanford University where she did research in Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Ecology. Before coming to MBL, she worked as a fisheries biologist and an entomologist. As an RAII in the Albertin Lab, Miranda is excited to dive deeper into her love of cephalopods and explore their unique quirks by investigating the role of cephalopod-specific proteins and working through the challenges of sperm cryopreservation and in vitro fertilization.
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Ryan Null, Ph.D.
Research Assistants
Emily Garcia, M.D.
Cheyenne Rodriguez
Ana Gabriel
Masters Students
Ophélie McIntosh
Undergraduate Researchers
Bianca Campagnari (UChicago Metcalf, 2020)
Cassandra Manrique (UChicago Metcalf, 2022)
Julia Lucey (Wellesley College, NSF REU, 2023)
Rebecca Stewart (UChicago Metcalf, 2023)
Eden Anne Bauer (UChicago Metcalf, 2023)
Jenna Moor (UChicago, 2024)
