Karen and Jorge Join the Lab

Jorge Martínez-Márquez, PhD is a new postdoctoral fellow. He completed his graduate work in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan working with Dr. Mara Duncan on membrane trafficking in budding yeast. He studied the function of the yeast arrestin Ldb19/Art1, a known endocytic protein, at the trans-Golgi Network. His work was recently published in PLoS One.

Karen Hug is a new research technician. She studied Biochemistry at the University of Michigan with a minor in Chinese Language and Literature, and she studied abroad at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.