Starting in 2019, Mellisa Coleman will serve as Director of the Grass Laboratory and Christophe Dupre will serve as Associate Director. Melissa is Professor at Claremont McKenna College, was a Grass Fellow in 1996 and has served as a Trustee of the Foundation since 2016. She will follow in the footsteps of Dr. Kamran Khodakhah who has been Director of the Grass lab from 2015-2018. Christophe Dupre is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Florian Engert at Harvard. Christophe was a Grass Fellow in 2016 and is continuing his exciting work on Hydra. He will follow Dr. Heather Rhodes who served as Associate Director in 2017 and 2018.
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