Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering
Joe completed his B.S. at UC Berkeley (Bioengineering) and Ph.D. in the Stanford School of Medicine (Cancer Biology). His thesis, supervised by Mark Krasnow, examined cellular and molecular processes taking place during injury repair in a rare, facultative stem cell of the mouse airways (pulmonary neuroendocrine cells), and led to the discovery that small cell lung cancer arises from neuroendocrine cells via genetic fixation of the repair processes. As a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow with David Anderson, Joe studies social behavior evolution using the drosophilid flies as a model genus, with a special interest in the expression and function of sexual behaviors between individuals within a species and within a sex (i.e., same-sex sexual behaviors, SSB). Outside the lab, Joe swims and enjoys road trips with his family to the beaches, deserts, and mountains of Southern California and beyond.
