The research projects in Nakamura Lab. The evolutionary developmental mechanisms of major vertebrate transitions, including the fin-to-limb transition, the neck evolution, and fin diversification.

**Tetsuya Nakamura**
**Principal investigator**

**Caroline Schwaner**
**Postdoctoral Scholar**

**Sayoni Chatterjee**
**Graduate student**

**Kristen Warrington**
**Graduate student**

**Megan Schupp**
**Rotating graduate student**

**Hannah Cohen**
**Lab tech /fish specialist**

Meghna ThekepatUndergraduate — **Meghna Thekepat**
**Undergraduate**

ALUMNI (affiliation after graduation)

Postdocs Shunsuke Mori (Assistant professor, TMDU)

Dina Navon (Assistant professor, UFV)

Shunya Kuroda (postdoc, Kanazawa U)

Graduate rotation students Lauren Chukrallah (Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers)

Deimante Mikalauskaite (Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers)

Matthew Lawlor (Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers)

Undergraduates Thomas Wood (Ph.D. candidate, Columbia U)

Natalie Turner (Biomeme, Inc.)

Anusha Shanabag (M.S. candidate, Columbia U)

Janet Wei (Johnson & Johnson)

Devanshi Mehta (M.D. candidate, NYITCOM)

Summer student Bennett Slibeck (Ph.D. candiadte, Columbia U)

Lab technician Anna Maria Hinman (Rutgers)

Alyssa Enny (Ph.D.candidate, Yale U)

Ali Andrescavage (Charles River)

Danielle Brazer (DPM candidate, Temple U)

Volunteer scientists Krista Barone (M.S. candidate, NYU)

Ailey Sheehan (M.S. candidate, Rutgers)

GALLERY

Now hiring Scientists!

Exciting opportunity to join our team as a lab manager/fish specialist is available.

The long-term goal of Nakamura lab is to identify the genetic mechanisms underlying fish diversity and their contribution to the fish-to-tetrapod transition. We are particularly interested in how fish fin skeletons diversified and evolved into tetrapod limbs. To this end, we bridge functional genomics, genetics, and embryology using model and non-model organisms, including zebrafish, skates, and sharks.

Rutgers University is located in New Brunswick, NJ, which is only 45 minutes away from NYC by train. Many competitive research universities and institutes are in the Northeast area, offering remarkable opportunities for collaboration and research conferences. The Nakamura lab regularly visits the American Museum of Natural History (https://www.amnh.org/) and the Marine Biological laboratory (https://www.mbl.edu/) for the purpose of analyzing unique specimens and educating students.

Candidates should contact Tetsuya Nakamura at nakamura@dls.rutgers.edu.