Science
The Primary Cilium
My current postdoctoral studies in the Lab of Dr. Andras Kapus focus on a surprising non-transcriptional role of a transcriptional co-activator at the primary cilium, a new cell biological mechanism relevant to fibrosis.
Quantitative fluorescence microscopy,
molecular biology, CRISPR,
super-resolution microscopy.
Planarians (Flatworms)
A small freshwater invertebrate yields new insights into biology of human health and disease including cilia. This work follows from my postdoctoral training with Dr. Bret Pearson at SickKids (Toronto).
Publications coming soon!
Meanwhile, adventures with planarians continue at UTSC, where the planarians and I are visitors in the Lab of Dr. Ina Anreiter (Drosophila epigentics).
Previous Work
Novel fibrillar structure in the inversin compartment of primary cilia revealed by 3D single-molecule super-resolution microscopy
Henrietta W. Bennett, Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Camille A. Bayas, Petar N. Petrov, Nancie Mooney, W. E. Moerner, and Peter K. Jackson
Molecular Biology of the Cell, January 2, 2020 (Ahead of print)
Ph.D. Dissertation
A New Model for the Structure and Composition of the Inversin Compartment.
Curriculum Vitae
Updated October 2023

Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy
Custom MATLAB scripts for semi-automated quantitative analysis of fluorescence microscopy images. Developed for measuring cilia during my Ph.D.
Available on Github: https://github.com/bennetthw/images-morethan-words