David Epel is a researcher at Hopkins Marine Station

Hopkins Marine Station

Hopkins Marine Station is the marine laboratory of Stanford University. It is located ninety miles south of the university's main campus, in Pacific Grove, California on the Monterey Peninsula, adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It is home to nine research laboratories and a fluctuating...

 in Pacific Grove

Pacific Grove, California

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, California

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Biography

Epel earned his Ph.D. at University of California Berkeley under Daniel Mazia

Daniel Mazia

Daniel Mazia was an American cell biologist, best known for his 1951 research with Katsuma Dan that isolated the cell structures responsible for mitosis....

. He arrived at Hopkins Marine Station in 1965. Subsequently, Professor Epel spent seven years at University of California San Diego's Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He served as president of American Society for Cell Biology in 1972. He completed a postdoc with Britton Chance

Britton Chance

Britton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in...

 at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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Professor Epel has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Research Focus

His work focuses on egg activation during fertilization, as well as stress on embryonic development.

Scientific Lineage

Scientific Lineage
Ph.D. Daniel Mazia Daniel Mazia Daniel Mazia was an American cell biologist, best known for his 1951 research with Katsuma Dan that isolated the cell structures responsible for mitosis.... University of California Berkeley	David Epel	Students mentored George Perry George Perry (neuroscientist) George Perry is a neuroscientist and Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio... Rebecca Vega Thurber
Postdoctoral Fellow Britton Chance Britton Chance Britton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in... University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

External links

• Epel's Lab