Lauren Lubeck

Lauren is a joint PhD candidate with Bo Wang’s lab at Stanford. She is interested in early developmental mechanisms and how they differ with life history strategies. She works on two species of hemichordates, the direct-developing S. kowalevskii on the East coast, and the indirect-developing S. californicum in Morro Bay, CA. Her work uses comparative approaches including molecular biology and single-cell genomics to understand early axis patterning. Before joining the Lowe & Wang labs, Lauren graduated from Brown University with a B.Sc. in Biology in 2019. Outside of the lab, Lauren enjoys exploring the outdoors & tidepooling, baking, and trying to make her friends laugh.