URMC / Biochemistry & Biophysics / People / Trainees 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 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZPost-Doctoral Fellows and Graduate StudentsViktoriya AnokhinaGraduate StudentBenjamin Miller LabStrategies for Enhancing Permeability and Specificity of RNA-targeted Anti-HIV CompoundsEmail Viktoriya Chen BaoGraduate StudentErmolenko LabEmail ChenLauren BenoodtGraduate StudentThakar LabDefining Context Specific Gene Sets for Deconvolution and Pathway AnalysisEmail LaurenKyle BergerGraduate StudentTurner LabUnexpected Structure and Stabilities for RNAs Containing GU Base Pairs Near LoopsEmail KyleChristina BruleGraduate StudentGrayhack LabIdentification and Characterization of Inhibitory Codon Pairs in Saccharomyces CerevisiaeEmail ChristinaMichael BryanGraduate StudentBenjamin Miller LabMultiplex Detection of Biomarkers for Sepsis by Monolithically Integrated Photonic Microring Resonator Biosensors in a Hand-held DeviceEmail MichaelChapin CavenderGraduate StudentMathews LabConformational Dynamics of an HIV-1 RNA Hairpin Bound to a Lab-evolved PeptideEmail ChapinSai ChavaliGraduate StudentWedekind LabEmail SaiHana Cho Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMaquat LabEmail HanaUdaysankar ChockanathanGraduate StudentWismüller LabComparison of the efficacy of various correlation and causation algorithms for quantifying interactions in resting-state fMRI brain activity using graph theory approachesEmail UdaysankarJessica CieslaGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail JessicaStephen ConstableGraduate StudentMathews LabEmail StephenTyler CouchGraduate StudentSteiner LabDisrupting the Erythroid Enhancer for Setd8 in Human Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells with CRISPR/Cas9Email TylerAmber CutterGraduate StudentHayes LabMapping multiple nucleosome interaction sites of linker histone H1Email AmberBrandon DavisGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail BrandonMeemanage De ZoysaGraduate StudentYu LabSubstrate Recognition by Box H/ACA RNA Guided PseudouridylationEmail Meemanage Thareendra De ZoysaGraduate StudentPhizicky LabThe Role of Yeast Met22 and pAp Signaling in Rapid tRNA DecayEmail ThareendraDiana Dunn Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMunger LabEmail DianaDebapratim DuttaGraduate StudentWedekind LabRelating RNA Structure to Regulatory Conformation in Live CellsEmail DebapratimSierra FoxGraduate StudentBulger LabDissecting the Function of Domain-Forming Transcriptional EnhancersEmail SierraDalia GhoneimGraduate StudentMathews LabRNA secondary structure predictionEmail DaliaChristopher GoodwinGraduate StudentMunger LabHCMV and Immunity: UL26 Interactions with NFkB and ISGylation PathwaysEmail ChristopherLu HanGraduate StudentPhizicky LabSubstrate specificity of the Trm140 C32 methyltransferaseEmail LuFanfan HaoGraduate StudentHayes LabCommunication between the Core Histone Tails and H1 Carboxyl-Terminal DomainEmail FanfanOmar HedayaGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail OmarSteven HendersonGraduate StudentGorbunova LabExploring the Link between Longevity and DNA Double Strand Break Repair Coordination by SIRT6Email StevenLisa HoustonGraduate StudentGrayhack LabMechanisms of Codon-mediated Inhibition of TranslationEmail LisaNazish JefferyGraduate StudentBulger LabThe Roles of Histone H2A Variants in Erythroid MaturationEmail NazishFeng JiangGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail FengMohammad KayedkhordehGraduate StudentMathews LabInvestigating Genome-wide Patterns of Secondary Structure in mRNA SequencesEmail MohammadAshwin KumarGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail AshwinWan-Jung LaiGraduate StudentErmolenko LabRegulation of Protein Synthesis by mRNA StructureEmail Wan-JungBronwyn LucasGraduate StudentMaquat Lab3' UTR SINEs and Staufen-mediated mRNA decay regulate orthologous human and mouse genesEmail BronwynLingfeng LuoGraduate StudentYan LabRegulation and Function of Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases in Pathological Vascular RemodelingEmail LingfengNicholas MacorettaGraduate StudentGorbunova LabEmail NicholasJerry MadukweGraduate StudentSmrcka LabRole of Mitochondria in Osteogenic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells During AgingEmail JerryDebanjana MajiGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail DebanjanaLuke MarrGraduate StudentHayes LabA Novel Method for Probing Chromatin AccessibilityEmail LukeLaxmi Mishra Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowHayes LabEmail LaxmiMorgan Monaghan Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMunger LabEmail MorganIsreal MorenoGraduate StudentMunger LabEmail IsrealYuliya MuradovaGraduate StudentPerkins LabInvestigating Methyltransferase Activity of PRDM3Email YuliyaRohith PalliGraduate StudentThakar LabProportional Boolean Networks for Pathway Analysis of omicsDataEmail RohithMukta PalshikarGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail MuktaMatthew PayeaGraduate StudentPhizicky LabCharacterization of Rapid tRNA Decay: High-Throughput Identification of tRNA SubstratesEmail MatthewChristopher PhippsGraduate StudentMaquat LabCoactivator PGC1β Contains a Novel CBP80-Binding Motif That Orchestrates Efficient Target-Gene Transcription and Transcript SplicingEmail ChristopherXavier Rambout Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateMaquat LabEmail XavierMatthew RaymondaGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail MatthewIrene Rodriguez-SanchezGraduate StudentMunger LabEmail IreneLetty Salas EstradaGraduate StudentGrossfield LabCharacterization of Opsin's Activation Mechanism Using Multi-basin Structure-based ModelsEmail LettyOwen SmithGraduate StudentBrookes LabKNa1.2 is a Mitochondrial Potassium Channel with a Potential Metabolic Regulatory RoleEmail OwenLouis SmithGraduate StudentMathews LabBenchmarking RNA Force Fields using Hairpin Loop Folding Free Energy ChangeEmail Louis Daniel SteinerGraduate StudentMiller LabEmail DanielHongying SunGraduate StudentMathews LabEmail HongyingSreyoshi SurGraduate StudentGrossfield LabEmail SreyoshiZhen TanGraduate StudentMathews LabModel RNA Secondary Structure with Sequence Comparison and Experimental Mapping DataEmail ZhenArica VanderWalGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail AricaEthan WalkerGraduate StudentGhaemmaghami LabEmail EthanJiyu WangGraduate StudentGrayhack LabDefining Mechanisms that Maintain Reading Frame in Eukaryotic TranslationEmail JiyuChandani Warnasooriya Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowErmolenko LabEmail ChandaniLi XieGraduate StudentLi LabMolecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem CellsEmail LiQiangzong YinGraduate StudentYu LabEmail QiangzongJiang Zhu Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowLi LabEmail JiangHong ZhuGraduate StudentDumont LabYeast Cell Surface Display of HIV Envelope Glycoprotein for Vaccine DevelopmentEmail HongJeffrey Zuber Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMathews LabEmail Jeffrey
