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Student Name Research Interest Professor

Armann Andaya Julie Leary
Brian Avanzino Mechanism of picornavirus translation initiation. Christopher Fraser
Mina Azimi
Calvin Balatbat Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Hepatocytes, Liver Development Jan Nolta
Eaman Balouch Thrombosis and Hemostasis, more specifically, interrogation of role of Factor XI in pathological thrombus formation using in vivo imaging Jerry S. Powell
Kristen Beck Understanding transcriptomic changes during lactation by specifically investigating a unique form of silencing of minor abundance transcripts through dilution. Comprehensively identifying the milk proteome in human and rhesus macaque through RNA-Seq guided analysis. Ian Korf
Jason Bell I am interested in the interaction between proteins and DNA. Specifically, proteins that are involved in replication, recombination and repair of DNA. Stephen Kowalczykowski
Matthew Blain-Hartung
Courtney Bone Daniel Starr
Brian Bui
Andrew Burch
David Carlson Jonathan M. Scholey
Shannon Ceballos My protein of interest is Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad51, which is involved in DNA damage repair. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer
Sum Ying (Annie) Chiu Lifeng Xu
Elizabeth Clark
Melanie Cobb A. Kimberley McAllister
Ardian Coku Eduardo Blumwald
Daniel Cortes Francis J. McNally
Jonathan Diehl
Jonathan Diehl
Danny Dranow Germline stem cells, germ cell biology, oogenesis. Bruce Draper
Meghan Dukerich Martin L. Privalsky
Tristan Eifler I am characterizing the structural and sequential preferences of human adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR2) Peter Beal
Bradford Elmer Studying the molecular mechanisms of synapse formation in the developing mammalian cortex. A. Kimberley McAllister
Anna Erickson Investigating the structural and chemical characteristics of archaea homologs of PAPS reductase. Andrew Fisher
Eugenel Espiritu Characterizing the mechanisms between polarity cues and spindle positioning in the Caenorhabditis elegans one cell embryo. Lesilee S. Rose
Leyda Evers Ted Powers
Zachary Farrow Tom Glaser
Kateryna Feoktistova I aim to understand how secondary structure in the 5ʹUTR coupled with the regulation of eIF4A helicase activity by eIFs during translation initiation controls differential translation and fidelity of initiation codon recognition. Specifically, I focus on how cellular levels of oncogenes and growth factors are regulated at the level of translation initiation. Christopher Fraser
Jonathan Flynn Spindle positioning during female meiosis Francis J. McNally
Christopher Fortenbach Marie Burns
Jennifer Gilda Aldrin Gomes
Aiza Go Early metabolic alterations that are involved in driving DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ) progression to IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma) Alexander Borowsky
Alexander Gulevich Synthetic biology, biofuels, pharmaceuticals, optogenetics J. Lagarias
Andrew Hamilton The molecular mechanisms of dendritic spine formation and stabilization Karen Zito
Jason Hatakeyama
Brooks Hayes Bruce D. Hammock
Silvia Hilt John Voss
Ryan Janke Homologous Recombination, DNA damage checkpoints Wolf-Dietrich Heyer
Shirin Jenkins DNA damage repair mechanisms Wolf-Dietrich Heyer
Stefanos Kalomoiris Role of miRNAS in human mesenchymal stem cells Jan Nolta
Christy Kim Directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into airway epithelium. Reen Wu
Kevin Kim Yoshihiro Izumiya
Alexander King Lorena Navarro
Lyndsey Kirk In the Diaz lab, we are interested in uncovering specific events that must occur for proper synapse development. We are specifically interested in a family of proteins (SynDIGs, for Synapse Differentiation Induced Gene) that play a critical role in AMPA Receptor recruitment to synapses during development. To answer further questions regarding the function of these proteins, I primarily use immunocytochemistry combined with molecular biology techniques Elva Diaz
Katie Klooster
Katarzyna (Kasia) Koscielska The Hagerman lab studies molecular pathogenesis of FXTAS (Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome) in order to understand the disease mechanism. We are aiming to discover how the FMR1 CGG repeat expansion influences cellular structure and function. Paul Hagerman
Paul Kuehnert
Neeraj Lal
Jason Lambert Karen Zito
Jordan Lang
Agnieszka Laskowski Paul Knoepfler
Katherine Lawrence JoAnne Engebrecht
Albert Lee
Dena Leerberg
Malgorzata Liro
Alan Lombard Maria Mudryj
Kristina Mahan Rebecca Parales
Nicholas Mahoney
Danielle Mandikian Homeostatic regulation of membrane excitability by modulation of ion channels through post-translational modifications. Jim Trimmer
Ashley McDonough Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno
Samuel McMahon
Ralph McNeilage Steven M. Theg
Joshua Meckler
Daniël Melters The center of all (actually most) chromosomes: the centromere. Ian Korf
Robert Mertz Michael Toney
Kari Messina Lesilee S. Rose
Anh Miu
Angela Monterrubio
Mary Moore Jay Solnick
Carlos Moscoso R.Holland Cheng
Andrew Murley Jodi Nunnari
Bernadette Nera Lifeng Xu
Tin Ngo
Anna Nowak David Wilson
Wonchan Oh Karen Zito
Nadia Ono Phytonutrients, Elucidation of polyphenol biosynthetic pathways Li Tian
Iquo Onofiok Kit Lam
Michelle Panzica Francis J. McNally
Trisha Pfluger
Khavong Pha Lorena Navarro
Adam Poe Anne Knowlton
Ignat Printsev Kermit Carraway
Alan Raetz inherited variants of the DNA repair enzyme MUTYH that are associated with colorectal cancer Sheila David
Hanin Rafidi
John Riggs Judy Callis
Amy Schroeder Nuclear hormone receptor regulation of transcription through interactions with coactivator and corepressor protein complexes Martin L. Privalsky
David Shattuck Negative Regulators of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Breast Cancer Kermit Carraway
Meghann Shorrock Molecular mechanisms of experience dependent maternal behavior. Synaptic plasticity, chromatin dynamics, and epigenetics. Danielle Stolzenberg
John Smolka
Priyanka Somanath
Sarah Statt Reen Wu
BobbieJane Stauffer
Kelly Subramanian Jodi Nunnari
Wesley Sughrue One-bead-one-compound libraries, autoimmune diseases, xenobiotics, nanotechonology, Single-molecule DNA sequencing, biophysics, medicinal research. M. Eric Gershwin
Shangming Tang My research is mainly about the enzymes involved in crossover formation during meiosis in yeast. Neil Hunter
Michelle Tjahjadi Anne B. Britt
Vu Trinh Robert Fairclough
Felicia Tsang Su-Ju Lin
Michelle Tu Understanding the role of calcium-mediated electrical activity during spinal cord and muscle regeneration. Laura Borodinsky
Anna Marie Tuazon
Po-Yuan Tung Paul Knoepfler
Gina Turco Siobhan Brady
Nancy Villa Mechanism of eukaryotic translation initiation. Christopher Fraser
Ariadne Vlahakis Ted Powers
Kiem Vu Cryptococcus Neoformans Pathogenesis Angie Gelli
Jessica Wald Kermit Carraway
Gordon Walker Investigating a novel yeast prion known as [GAR+], capable of allowing Saccharomyces to over-come glucose-associated catabolite repression. Yeast prions serve as metastable, dominant, heritable epigenetic molecular protein memories that help cells cope with stressful environments. Linda Bisson
Rebecca Wright Stephen Kowalczykowski
Jessica Yu Integrin-Growth Factor/Growth factor Receptor crosstalk and the impact of this interaction interaction on cancer biology Yoshikazu Takada
Yawei Yu
Benjamin Yuen Paul Knoepfler
Garrick Yuen Donald Bers
Brandon Zipp Function of passenger proteins in late anaphase Ken Kaplan

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