Lab Members

Dr. James Monaghan

Professor of Biology

Director, Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems

BA from DePauw University. PhD from the University of Kentucky. He joined Northeastern University in 2012.

Timothy Duerr

Postdoctoral researcher studying limb patterning and nerve dependency of limb regeneration. Tim earned his BS in Biology from SUNY Cortland in 2017 and his PhD in Biology from Northeastern University in 2021.

Jackson Griffiths

Fourth-year graduate student. He researches nerve dependency in limb regeneration. He has a BA in Cell and Molecular Biology (’19) from Northeastern University.

Jackson is a NSF graduate research fellow.

Melissa Miller 

Third-year PhD student with a BS in Biology & Math from Northeastern (’21). She uses bioinformatics to study limb patterning during regeneration and the impact of retinoic acid on gene expression. She also develops image analysis tools and support other projects in nerve dependency and other tissues such as retina and lung.

Samantha Finkbeiner 

First year graduate student studying migration patterns in early blastema formation. She has a BS in Neuroscience from Michigan State University (Go Green).

Wathone Win 

First year graduate student studying lung regeneration in axolotls. Has a BS in Biology (’17) from Fairfield University. Prior to joining the lab, she worked in the Beggs Lab in the Department of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital researching congenital myopathies.

Nicole Calder

Nicole is a first year graduate student studying retina regeneration following NMDA injury in the axolotl. She graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2023 with a BS in molecular cell biology and neuroscience.

Lab Alumni