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.
Sara AliGraduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest: Identifying Distant Homologs of the ncRNA Lep5
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 with On-chip Spectrometry to Detect Biologically Relevant Protein Targets in Serum
Joseph BucukovskiGraduate 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.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 ChiangGraduate 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 CieslaGraduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: TNFα Induces Metabolic Reprogramming that is Essential for its Anti-Viral Activity
Justin GalardiGraduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest: Distinguishing the role of a putative U2AF65 - SF3B1 complex in pre-mRNA splicing
Fanfan Hao, M.S.Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest: Acetylation-modulated communication between the H3 N-terminal tail and the intrinsically disordered H1 C-terminal domain
Xueyang HeGraduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest: Modeling the Effects of Cancer-Associated Spliceosome Mutations and Identifying Driving Intronic Features Using Deep-Learning Neural Networks
Omar HedayaGraduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Understanding the role of the RNA secondary structure context in regulating upstream open reading frames
Lisa Houston, M.S.Graduate Student
Grayhack Lab
Research Interest: A reading frame quality control system acts during ribosome collisions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Molly HulverGraduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest: Identification of intron-encoded neoantigens upregulated by cancer-associated CDK12/13 mutations
Nazish Jeffery, M.S.Graduate Student
Bulger Lab
Research Interest: Histone H2A.X Phosphorylation Activates Caspase-Induced Chromatin Condensation in Late Stage Erythropoiesis
Feng JiangGraduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Cracking the Function of PRRC2B in Translation Initiation
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: Inferring RNA Secondary Structure from Multiple Sequence Alignment
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.
Julia NicosiaGraduate 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 PalshikarGraduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Executable models of pathways built using single-cell RNA-seq data reveal atherosclerosis-associated signaling dysregulations
Yi PanGraduate Student
Yu Lab
Research Interest: Exploring the potential role of U2 m6Am modification in branch site recognition during pre-mRNA splicing
Matthew RaymondaGraduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: Identifying vulnerabilities of β-coronaviruses using high-throughput drug screening
Emily RobinsonGraduate Student
Grossfield Lab
Research Interest: Cysteine Thioesters as a Potential Treatment for Opioid Overdose: Insights from Molecular Dynamics
Griffin SchroederGraduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Discovery of a PreQ1 Riboswitch with a Fundamentally Different Mode of Effector Recognition and Gene Regulation
Yoshita SrivastavaGraduate 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 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.