People

The people of the McNally Lab

McNally Lab Phone (530) 754-8022

Francis McNally
(Associate Professor)
fjmcnally@ucdavis.edu
Office: (530) 754-8018
Frank

Frank graduated from Princeton University where he worked with Paul Schedl and Ruth Steward. He did his Ph.D. with Jasper Rine at UC Berkeley and a postdoc with Ron Vale at UC San Francisco. After purifying the microtubule-severing protein, katanin, as a postdoc in the Vale lab, Frank has slowly changed the emphasis of the McNally lab from katanin to meiosis.
If Frank is not in the lab you can usually find him running a marathon or competing in a triathalon. Frank is very enthusiastic in encouraging others in the lab to join in on the fun of running, biking, and swimming. Last year he qualified for the Boston marathon... go Frank go!

Marina Ellefson Crowder
(Ph.D. student, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Group)
Marina

mlellefson@ucdavis.edu

Marina is from California. She graduated from UC Davis and worked her way through school as a bartender. Marina is now fascinated with the mechanisms of meiotic spindle rotation and other things related to dynein.
If Marina is not in the lab you can usually find her at home playing with her two doggies, doing yard work, or out running... go Marina go!

Amy Fabritius
(Ph.D. student, Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Group)
asfabritius@ucdavis.edu

Amy

Amy is from Ohio. She graduated from Ohio Weslyan University where she was a pole vaulter. Amy is now fascinated by the mechanisms of polar body extrusion and other things related to myosin.
If Amy is not in the lab you can usually find her volunteering with the SPCA and spending time with dogs, swimming, or running... go Amy go!

Karen McNally
(Research Associate)
klmcnally@ucdavis.edu

Karen graduated from UC Berkeley where she worked with Jeremy Thorner. She did her Ph.D. at MIT with Graham Walker and completed a postdoc at UCSF with Nina Agabian. Karen has worked on a number of projects including the role of katanin in meiotic spindle length control, the role of fertilization in cell-cycle progression and the mechanism of kinesin-dependent streaming of organelles.
If Karen is not in the lab you can ususally find her at home spending time with her kids and her two doggies. She also can be found at home preparing to host one of our amazing and frequent lab get togethers/parties.... go Karen go!

Jennifer Milan
(Undergraduate)

Jennifer is from Southern California. She did a nice project showing that mut-16(RNAi) could be used to de-silence transgene expression in the germline. She is now doing yeast 2-hybrid screening.
If Jennifer is not in the lab you can usually find her in class, studying, working as a peer advisor for the MCB department, or out running... go Jennifer go!

Jonnathan Flynn
(Undergraduate)

Jonnathon is from the Bay Area and is a Genetics major here at UC Davis. He has been busy in the lab doing crosses with various strains and live imaging of transgenic worms.
If Jonnathan is not in the lab you can find him in class, studying, or working out at the ARC...go Jonnathan go!

Selene Clay
Selene

Selene is a student at Davis Senior High School. She did an experiment that showed rol-1 worms are more susceptible to unc-116 RNAi than N2 worms and she helped with crosses.