Principal Investigator
David Bilder
David joined the Berkeley faculty in 2002, after completing postdoctoral work with Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School and graduate work with Matt Scott at Stanford Medical School. He is a member of the CDB and affiliate of GGD divisions, and an organizer of the DRB group. Research in David’s lab has been supported by the Burroughs-Wellcome Foundation, the Searle Scholars Program, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Cancer Institute, the Mizutani Glycoscience Foundation, and the American Cancer Society. In 2010, David was awarded the HW Mossman Developmental Biologist Award. David was elected President of the North American Drosophila Board in 2015, and is the Founder and Chair of the Drosophila Image Award.
Postdocs
Jung Kim
Jung trained with Tom Neufeld, working on nutritional signaling and inter-organ communication. His postdoctoral work studies tumor-host interactions as well as mechanical regulation of signaling pathways.
Hui-Yu Ku
Ku arrives in the Bilder lab from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where she studied the interface of cell signaling and morphogenesis with Henry Sun. Here, Ku is investigating how cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions shape organs.
Katy Ong
Katy completed her doctoral work in Steve DiNardo’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied cell mechanics and signaling in the context of epithelial morphogenesis. For her postdoctoral work, she is working to identify the long-range signaling mechanisms between tumor and host cells that underlie paraneoplastic effects. Katy is supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
Stephan Gerlach
Stephan joins us from the University of Copenhagen, where he trained with Hector Herranz studying tissue growth and its regulation by miRNAs and genome instability. He has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to understand inflammatory networks in flies under both physiological and pathological conditions.
Graduate students
Jack Hsi
Jack (Tsai-Ching) trained at the Plikus lab in UC-Irvine, co-authoring several papers on hair follicle regeneration in his undergraduate career. He has joined postdoc Jung Kim to advance the fly as a model for tumor-host interactions and cancer malignancy.
Kavya Adiga
Kavya is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she worked with Ken Cadigan on Wnt signaling. She is the newest member of the team studying tumor-host interactions in the lab.
Lab assistant
Guadalupe Coy
Lupe is a veteran Drosophila caretaker, having first learned the trade from Todd Laverty in Gerry Rubin’s lab. We rely on Lupe for food preparation, stock care, media and glassware….the list goes on and on.
Undergrads
Sravya Gadepalli