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 Alice GiuliaAlessandroni
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:
Determining the role of FAM120A in mRNA Posttranscriptional Control and its regulation by uORF and m6A
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:
The role of GATA3 in altering nucleosome-bound H1
Structure and function
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
Research Interest:
Single-molecule studies of translation inhibitors and ribosome collision
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
The Human 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
Research Interest:
Context Dependent Structural Changes of Internalized GPCR Signaling Centers
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
A 2.49Å cryo-electron microscopy structure of CRISPR-associated heptameric membrane pore BpyCsx27 reveals important lipid interactions and a hydrophobic gating mechanism
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Using All-Atom Simulations to Estimate Small Molecule-RNA Binding Affinities
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:
The hormesis effect of glycative stress on the heart during ischemia-reperfusion
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 off-target 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
Research Interest:
Cryo-EM Data Recovery from Damaged Particles
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:
Probing the role of the Integrator complex 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:
Calculating the Local pKa of Ionizable Lipids in Membranes with Alchemical Free Energy Perturbation Simulations
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
Research Interest:
BMAL1 and Circadian Rhythm Support Anti-Tumor Immune Signaling in Lung Adenocarcinoma (LUAD)