Trainees
The following lists represents graduate students and post-doctoral fellows within departmental laboratories. For students in our graduate programs please see:
Students in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Program
Students in the Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology Ph.D. Program
Post-Doctoral Associates/Fellows and Graduate Students
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maquat Lab
Research Interest:
Awarded a K00/R01 Pathway to Independence Award
Email AliceAlessandroni Giulia
Graduate Student
Meyer Lab
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating differential intron sensitivity to PUF60, a gene that is deleted or amplified in developmental syndromes and cancers
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
The Effect of Integrator Subunit 11 Mutations on Integrator Function and Neuronal Development
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest:
RBP function and mechanism in posttranscriptional regulation in heart disease
Graduate Student
First Year
Postdoctoral Associate
Munger Lab
Graduate Student
Yishu Jiang Lab
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest:
Determining the Role of EPRS and tRNA Modulation in Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest:
Effect of Transcription Factor Binding on Nucleosome-bound H1 Structure
Graduate Student
Lueck Lab
Research Interest:
Development of Tools and tRNA-based Therapeutics for Rescue of PTC-derived Disease and Elongation Efficiency of CFTR
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
How Bacterial Detect Oxidative Stress: Structural and Functional Characterization of an 8-Oxoguanine-Sensing RNA Switch
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
The Integrator Complex is Required for HSV-1 Infection
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the Role of RNA Helicases in Splicing Changes caused by Cancer Associated SF3B1 Mutations
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
HEXIM1 Integrates Transcriptional Stress and Cell Cycle Arrest Following Dual Disruption of Integrator and NELF
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Modeling the effects of cancer-associated spliceosome mutations and identifying driving intronic features using deep-learning neural networks
Graduate Student
Gorbunova & Seluanov Lab
Research Interest:
Visualization, Purification, and Investigation of SIRT6 Nuclear Condensates
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Developing novel thermodynamic parameters for RNA folding stability in simulated cellular environments to improve the accuracy of RNA secondary structure predictions.
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Graduate Student
Papasergi-Scott Lab
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
Antiphage Defense Protein Csx27 is Associated with RADAR and RNase T-containing Antiphage Defense Systems
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the Dynamics of the PreQ1-III Riboswitch
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
Structural Analysis and Mechanism of Translation Regulation by a Class I Type III preQ1 Riboswitch from Escherichia coli
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating Dynamic Exchanges Among Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor Complexes
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
CRISPR-Cas13b activated Csx28 functions as a tRNA-gated membrane pore
Graduate Student
Brookes Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the hormesis effect of glycative stress through click chemistry
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
Structure and function analysis of a polyamine riboswitch reveals a fold exapted from the SAM-I riboswitch to reject offtarget ligands for spermidine sensing in a pseudoknot interf
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the Role of HMGN1 in Modulating Inter-nucleosome Interactions of the Core-Histone Tail Domains
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
Characterization and function of a novel Integrator-associated complex
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Understanding the mismatch of RNA secondary structure based on prediction models
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
RNAProbClust: A tool for clustering aptamer sequences from SELEX experiments
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Papasergi-Scott Lab
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab
Research Interest:
Defining the roles of 5’UTR length and secondary structure in eukaryotic translation initiation
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
Developing a Small Molecule Integrator Inhibitor to Probe Its Role During Erythropoiesis
Graduate Student
Papasergi-Scott Lab
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest:
Nuclear Inhibitor of Protein Phosphatase-1(NIPP1) regulates phosphorylation of SF3B1, a cancer-relevant pre-mRNA splicing factor
Graduate Student
Varble Lab
Research Interest:
Experimental identification of genetic barriers to horizontal gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Meyer Lab
Research Interest:
Sustainable Degradation of Marine Plastics using Microbial and Enzymatic Engineered Living Materials
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest:
Exploring diverse nucleosome binding modes of H1 subtypes
Postdoctoral Associate
Maquat Lab
Research Interest:
Role of influenza PA on host adaptation
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest:
Regulation of Insulin Receptor Translation by a Conserved uORF
Graduate Student
Gorbunova & Seluanov Lab
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Developing a 9-dimensional RNA-barcode to characterize RNA-containing structures
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Graduate Student
Grossfield Lab
Research Interest:
Quantifying Free Energy of Phase Separation in Model Lipid Membranes
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
Type VI CRISPR and associated bacterial anti-phage defense systems
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest:
HCMV infection depends on EGLN1-mediated mitochondrial activation to increase dNTP pools for viral DNA replication
Graduate Student
Vertino Lab
Research Interest:
Examining the Functions of the KDM5 Demethylases in Luminal Lineage Breast Cancer
Email RodolphoSouza Amado de Carvalho
Postdoctoral Associate
Papasergi-Scott Lab
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
MacLean Lab
Research Interest:
Interrogating Extracellular Unstructured Domains of AMPA Receptor Auxiliary Proteins Using FRET
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest:
Cellular antibody affinity-based CRISPR Screening identifies JUNB as a broadly acting anti-viral factor
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest:
RNA Aptamers for Cardiac-Cell Specific Delivery of RNA Drugs
Graduate Student
First Year
Postdoctoral Associate
Maquat Lab
Graduate Student
Yu Lab
Graduate Student
Altman Lab