margot kossmann williams

Assistant professor / P.I.

margot.williams@bcm.edu

Margot earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and completed postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Jacalyn Macgowan

Research assistant / lab manager

Jacie brings to the lab years of laboratory expertise from her time at McGovern Medical School, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and University of Arizona Cancer Center.

Christopher Small

Postdoctoral research associate

Chris earned his Bachelors and Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick. He brings years of experience with zebrafish, in which he studied polyploidy, hematopoiesis, and matrix metalloproteinases.

ailen soledad cervino

Postdoctoral research associate

Ailen earned her Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Buenos Aires. During her graduate work, she studied gastrulation morphogenesis in the frog Xenopus laevis.

Margaret eisenbrandt

Graduate student - Neuroscience graduate program

Margaret earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Biomedical engineering from the University of Houston. She gained additional research experience as a technician at Baylor College of Medicine before joining for her PhD work.

adya verma

Graduate student - MSTP and Development, Disease Model, and Therapeutics graduate programs

Adya earned her Bachelors degree at University of California, Berkeley. She has a long-standing love of developmental biology from her time as an undergraduate researcher and technician at UCSF, where she studied tooth morphogenesis in mice.

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… Come join our group! We are always on the lookout for passionate researchers at all levels. Please email Margot to inquire about open positions.

MKW lab alumni

Alyssa Alaniz Emig - Graduate student 2020-2024. Current position: Technical account manager at Sino Biological

Megan Hansen - SMART program undergraduate and student helper 2022-2023

Colby Allred - Research assistant 2022-2023. Current position: Graduate student at Wake Forest University

Fariz Nazir - SMART program undergraduate student 2021. Current position: Graduate student at NYU Grossmann School of Medicine