Principal Investigator

Matthew A. Birk, Ph.D.
Current Students

Brandon Dick
ZAAS 2026
Current project: Squid brain oxygenation in the context of variable environmental oxygen.

Mary Bukowski
Molecular Biology 2026
Current project: Investigating why and how cephalopods edit mRNA in the HIF pathway
Lab Alumni

Taylor Harris
Molecular Biology 2025
Current project: Investigating why and how cephalopods edit mRNA in the HIF pathway
Holly Jones
Biology 2024
Current position: Masters of Science in Genome Bioinformatics program, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Bailey McDougall
Marine Biology 2024
Current position: Masters of Science in Marine Biology program, James Cook University, Australia