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THE URIBE LAB!
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Dr. Rosa Uribe, Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
rosa.uribe@rice.edu
Rice Biosciences
W200E George R. Brown Hall
​Houston, TX 77005

Dr. Uribe completed her doctoral degree at the University of Texas, Austin and her postdoctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology.  Dr. Uribe was recruited to join Rice University in 2017 through CPRIT and is a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research. Since joining Rice, Dr. Uribe has established the Uribe lab and is now a National Science Foundation CAREER Awardee, starting in 2020. 
Adam Howard, Graduate Student
Research Interests: To enhance understanding of the microenvironmental and cellular mechanisms underlying vagal NCC migration
Eileen Singleton
Lab Manager and Fish Technician
Phillip Baker, Graduate Student
Research Interests: My work seeks to broaden our understanding of the cellular mechanisms that mediate neuron patterning, morphological differentiation and early function of the neural circuitry within the vertebrate Enteric Nervous System
Joshua Moore, Graduate Student
Research Interests: Spatial patterning and neurogenesis of the Enteric Nervous System
James Tallman, Research Specialist
Research Interests:  Neural crest and neuroblastoma
Rodrigo Ibarra, Graduate Student
Research Interests: Neural crest and neuroblastoma
Sarah Downing, Undergraduate Researcher
Research Interests: Enteric Nervous System formation
Julia Corteguera, Undergraduate Researcher; Rice University SER Scholar
Research interests: Vagal neural crest gene expression

Former Lab Members
-Martin Cheramie, Research Specialist. Now in Medical School.
-Ashley Tsang, Undergraduate researcher. Now doing Civic internships at Rice University.
-Avery Myers, Undergraduate researcher. Now doing ovarian cancer research at Baylor College of Medicine.

Uribe lab Summer Student Jessa Westheimer describes her Summer 2019 lab learning experience as part of the Choose Development! Fellowship program!