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
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Post-Doctoral Associates/Fellows and Graduate Students
Kadijah Abston, M.S.Email KadijahAbston
Graduate Student
Li Lab
Research Interest: Define the information carriers in semen underlying Pb-induced transgenerational behavioral alterations.
Lauren Benoodt, M.S.Email LaurenBenoodt
Graduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Extending Pathways for Mechanistic Predictions from Large Scale Data
Rachel BonnEmail RachelBonn
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
A cyclic peptide library that targets HIV TAR RNA reveals key roles for cyclization linkers and peptide sequences in antiviral function
Michael Bryan, M.S.Email MichaelBryan
Graduate Student
Benjamin Miller Lab
Research Interest: Integration of Silicon Nitride Photonic Microring Resonators for Sensing with On-chip Spectrometry to Detect Biologically Relevant Protein Targets in Serum
Joseph BucukovskiEmail JosephBucukovski
Graduate Student
Benjamin Miller Lab
Research Interest:
Developing a tendon-on-a-chip model with integrated photonic biosensors to detect inflammatory biomarkers in situ
Sai Chavali, M.S.Email SaiChavali
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Arginine Forks Are a Widespread Motif to Recognize Phosphate Backbones and Guanine Nucleobases in the RNA Major Groove
Wesley ChiangEmail WesleyChiang
Graduate Student
Krauss Lab
Research Interest:
Using STORM to Track the Neuroinvasive Potential of SARS-CoV-2 Through the Blood-Brain Barrier Mediated by a Bradykinin Storm
Jessica CieslaEmail JessicaCiesla
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: TNFα Induces Metabolic Reprogramming that is Essential for its Anti-Viral Activity
Justin GalardiEmail JustinGalardi
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest:
Distinguishing the role of a putative U2AF65 - SF3B1 complex in pre-mRNA splicing
Xueyang HeEmail XueyangHe
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Modeling the Effects of Cancer-Associated Spliceosome Mutations and Identifying Driving Intronic Features Using Deep-Learning Neural Networks
Omar HedayaEmail OmarHedaya
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Understanding the role of the RNA secondary structure context in regulating upstream open reading frames
Lisa Houston, M.S.Email LisaHouston
Graduate Student
Grayhack Lab
Research Interest: A reading frame quality control system acts during ribosome collisions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Molly HulverEmail MollyHulver
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Identification of intron-encoded neoantigens upregulated by cancer-associated CDK12/13 mutations
Nazish JefferyEmail NazishJeffery
Graduate Student
Bulger Lab
Research Interest:
Histone H2A.X Phosphorylation Activates Caspase-Induced Chromatin Condensation in Late Stage Erythropoiesis
Feng JiangEmail FengJiang
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Cracking the Function of PRRC2B in Translation Initiation
Debanjana MajiEmail DebanjanaMaji
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest: Structure and Function of the Disease-Relevant Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor U2AF2
Adrian Moises Molina VargasEmail Adrian MoisesMolina Vargas
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest: RNA biology, CRISPR-Cas systems. Understanding gRNA design rules for efficient and specific Cas13 RNA-binding in human cells.
Isreal Moreno, M.S.Email IsrealMoreno
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest:
The Role of Enolase 2 During Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
Julia NicosiaEmail JuliaNicosia
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
The role of the Type VI CRISPR-Cas accessory protein Csx27 in the regulation of CRISPR-Cas13 mediated anti-viral immunity
Mukta PalshikarEmail MuktaPalshikar
Graduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Executable models of pathways built using single-cell RNA-seq data reveal atherosclerosis-associated signaling dysregulations
Yi PanEmail YiPan
Graduate Student
Yu Lab
Research Interest:
Exploring the potential role of U2 m6Am modification in branch site recognition during pre-mRNA splicing
Matthew RaymondaEmail MatthewRaymonda
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: Identifying vulnerabilities of β-coronaviruses using high-throughput drug screening
Emily RobinsonEmail EmilyRobinson
Graduate Student
Grossfield Lab
Research Interest:
Cysteine Thioesters as a Potential Treatment for Opioid Overdose: Insights from Molecular Dynamics
Griffin SchroederEmail GriffinSchroeder
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
Discovery of a PreQ1 Riboswitch with a Fundamentally Different Mode of Effector Recognition and Gene Regulation
Yoshita SrivastavaEmail YoshitaSrivastava
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
Two riboswitches with identical binding pockets show different tolerances to equivalent mutations and varied promiscuities for cognate effector binding
Monika TasakEmail MonikaTasak
Graduate Student
Phizicky Lab
Research Interest:
tRNA Modifications and Quality Control Decay Pathways in Evolutionarily Distant Yeast Species
Jennifer TwardowskiEmail JenniferTwardowski
Graduate Student
Mello Lab
Research Interest:
Evaluating the Potential of Tumor Suppressor p53 to Preserve Pancreatic Acinar Cell Identity
Ethan Walker, B.S.Email EthanWalker
Graduate Student
Ghaemmaghami Lab
Research Interest:
The Impact of Protein Stability on Methionine Oxidation Rates in Folded Proteins
Li XieEmail LiXie
Graduate Student
Li Lab
Pröschel Lab
Research Interest: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells.