James White
James was a freshman at the University of Michigan when he started working in the lab of Catherine E. Keegan. Continuing to work in the lab through his college and during a gap year, he contributed to a collaborative paper on which he is co-first author, and he presented a talk at the Structural Birth Defects meeting in Bethesda MD, 2017. After coming to Vanderbilt James was drawn to the Page-McCaw lab by the powerful genetic tools available to fly researchers, the multidisciplinary collaboration with the Hutson lab, and the opportunities for both live imaging and fixed tissue experiments in the developing pupa. James is currently funded through the Program in Developmental Biology T32 training grant, and was awarded best Graduate Student Poster at the Program in Developmental Biology retreat 2019. Outside of the lab James can usually be found cooking something or exploring Nashville with friends.