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 Fellows and Graduate Students
Kadijah Abston, M.S.Graduate Student
Li Lab
Research Interest: Define the information carriers in semen underlying Pb-induced transgenerational behavioral alterations.
Chen BaoGraduate Student
Ermolenko Lab
Research Interest: mRNA stem-loops can pause the ribosome by hindering A-site tRNA binding
Rachel Bonn-BreachGraduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Structure and specificity of cyclic peptides in complex with HIV TAR provides insight into inhibitor development
Michael Bryan, M.S.Graduate Student
Benjamin Miller Lab
Research Interest: Integration of Silicon Nitride Photonic Microring Resonators for Sensing and Spectrometry to Detect Biologically Relevant Protein Targets
Chapin Cavender, M.S.Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest: Capturing the Influence of Structural Context and Solvent in Fixed-charge Force Fields for RNA
Sai Chavali, M.S.Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Arginine Forks Are a Widespread Motif to Recognize Phosphate Backbones and Guanine Nucleobases in the RNA Major Groove
Jessica CieslaGraduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: TNFα Induces Metabolic Reprogramming that is Essential for its Anti-Viral Activity
Brandon DavisGraduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest: Elucidating guide-RNA design rules for efficient and highly specific Cas13 RNA-targeting in human cells
Justin GalardiGraduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest: Distinguishing the roles of TatSF1 and U2AF65 paralogues in HIV vs. host gene expression
Fanfan Hao, M.S.Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest: Communication Between the Core Histone Tails and the H1 Carboxyl-Terminal Domain
Omar HedayaGraduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Understanding the role of the RNA secondary structure context in regulating upstream open reading frames
Feng JiangGraduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Cracking the Function of PRRC2B in Translation Initiation
Gabrielle KosoyGraduate Student
Benjamin Miller Lab
Research Interest: Using sensor arrays to understand the immune response to flu: The human immune system response to influenza virus is complex and thus not well understood. I am using Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry (AIR) technology to create arrays of flu surface proteins as well as arrays of whole virus to understand the antibody response to antigen presented in a three-dimensional context.
Lingfeng Luo, M.S.Graduate Student
Yan Lab
Research Interest: Role of PDE10A in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Hyperplasia and Pathological Vascular Remodeling
Debanjana MajiGraduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest: Structure and Function of the Disease-Relevant Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor U2AF2
Luke Marr, M.S.Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest: Probing Chromatin Structure Through Accessible Histone Surfaces
Abhinav MittalGraduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest: Identifying common features of piRNA precursors using computational and biophysical approaches
Adrian Moises Molina VargasGraduate 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.
Mukta PalshikarGraduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Executable models of pathways built using single-cell RNA-seq data reveal atherosclerosis-associated signaling dysregulations
Matthew RaymondaGraduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: Identifying vulnerabilities of β-coronaviruses using high-throughput drug screening
Griffin SchroederGraduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Structural Analysis of a Riboswitch Reveals Long-Range Interaction Spine Bridging Distant Domains
Yoshita SrivastavaGraduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Structure and effector-binding analysis of a PreQ1-III riboswitch suggests a fold that is tolerant to binding pocket mutations
Monika TasakGraduate Student
Phizicky Lab
Research Interest: tRNA modifications and quality control decay pathways in evolutionarily distant yeast species
Jennifer TwardowskiGraduate Student
Mello Lab
Research Interest: Evaluating the Potential of Tumor Suppressor p53 to Preserve Pancreatic Acinar Cell Identity
Ethan WalkerGraduate Student
Ghaemmaghami Lab
Research Interest: Proteome-wide Analysis of Temperature-Dependent Stability in Thermophilic Versus Mesophilic Bacteria
Li XieGraduate Student
Pröschel Lab
Li Lab
Research Interest: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells.