Current members of the Gagnon lab

James Gagnon

Assistant Professor
BS. Worcester Polytechnic
PhD. Brown University
Postdoc Harvard University

james.gagnon at utah.edu

Sheng Wang

MCEB Graduate Student
BS. UC Davis
MS. San Diego State

Clayton Carey

Postdoctoral Fellow
BS. Humboldt State
PhD. Utah with Nels Elde

NHLBI F32 fellow
NHGRI K01 fellow

Alexis Schmid

MCEB Graduate Student
BS. Grove City College

NIH T32 DBTG fellow

Kristin Johnson

Postdoctoral Fellow
BS. Yale University
PhD. Northwestern with Carole LaBonne

NIH T32 DBTG fellow
NIGMS F32 fellow

Claire Tobin

MB Graduate Student
BS. Colorado College

NIH T32 MPTG fellow

Brent Bisgrove

Research Associate
PhD. Indiana University

Hailey Hollins

Research Assistant
BS. University of Utah

Biology Research Scholar


Andrew Janik

Research Assistant
BS. Oregon State
MS. SUNY ESF; MS. Oregon State



Emma Craig

Undergrad, Biology
University of Utah

Jenna Weber

MD/PhD Graduate Student
BA. University of Pennsylvania

NIH T32 GTG fellow
NICHD F30 fellowship

Gigi Skedros

Undergrad, Honors Biology
University of Utah

UROP, Biology Research Scholar



Connor Shrader

Math Graduate Student
BS. University of Central Florida

NIH T32 GTG fellow


Former members of the Gagnon lab

Former undergraduate students
Marissa Higbee
Zachary Frederich
Meredith Liddiard
Paige Takasugi
Emma Fine
Pear Intasin
Darren Llewellyn
Sahar Kanishka
Tajeshree Prakash
Hudson Kendall
Julane Machado
Hailey Hollins
Jacqueline Hyman

Former postdoctoral fellows
Mai Tran

Former graduate students
Andy Sposato
Marlen Rice
Kimberly Truong

Former lab and research technicians
Nathan Baker
Evan Drage