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 StudentsKadijah AbstonGraduate StudentLi LabDefine the information carriers in semen underlying Pb-induced transgenerational behavioral alterations.Email KadijahViktoriya Anokhina M.S.Graduate StudentBenjamin Miller LabIncreasing Cellular Concentrations and Specificity of RNA-targeted anti-HIV CompoundsEmail Viktoriya Chen BaoGraduate StudentErmolenko LabFrameshifting Stimulating Stem Loops Induce Ribosome Pausing by Inhibiting tRNA Binding to the Ribosome A SiteEmail ChenLauren Benoodt M.S.Graduate StudentThakar LabDevelopment of Computational Algorithms for Curation, Inference, and Analysis of Viral Responsive Gene-setsEmail LaurenKyle Berger M.S.Graduate StudentTurner LabSurprising Sequence Effects on GU Closure of RNA Loops Email KyleRachel Bonn-BreachGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail RachelMichael Bryan M.S.Graduate StudentBenjamin Miller LabDevelopment of Integrated Photonic Microring Resonator Arrays as a Biosensing Platform for Characterizing Human Immunological Responses to InfectionEmail MichaelChapin Cavender M.S.Graduate StudentMathews LabLinear Fitting of Nonbonded Parameters for RNA Force FieldsEmail ChapinSai ChavaliGraduate StudentWedekind LabStructural Analysis of Multiple Lab-Evolved Proteins that Bind HIV-1 TAR RNA with NanoMolar AffinityEmail SaiHana Cho Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateMaquat LabEmail HanaJessica CieslaGraduate StudentMunger LabEmail JessicaLily CiscoGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail LilyTyler Couch M.S.Graduate StudentSteiner LabThe Histone Mono-methyltransferase Setd8 is an Important Regulator in Human ErythropoiesisEmail TylerBrandon DavisGraduate StudentLand LabO'Connell LabEmail BrandonMeemanage De Zoysa M.S.Graduate StudentYu LabGuide-Substrate RNA Base-Pairing Requirements for RNA Guided PseudouridylationEmail Meemanage Thareendra De Zoysa M.S.Graduate StudentPhizicky LabConservation of tRNA Quality Control Pathways in EukaryotesEmail ThareendraQuinn DoubetGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail QuinnDiana Dunn Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMunger LabEmail DianaDebapratim Dutta M.S.Graduate StudentWedekind Lab Elucidating Signal Transduction Pathways in RNA-mediated Gene Regulation Email DebapratimSierra Fox M.S.Graduate StudentBulger LabDissecting the Function of Domain-Forming Transcriptional EnhancersEmail SierraJustin GalardiGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail JustinDalia GhoneimGraduate StudentMathews LabRNA secondary structure predictionEmail DaliaChristopher Goodwin M.S.Graduate StudentMunger LabHCMV and Immunity: UL26 Interactions with the NFkB and ISGylation Host Defense PathwaysEmail ChristopherLu HanGraduate StudentPhizicky LabSubstrate specificity of the Trm140 C32 methyltransferaseEmail LuFanfan Hao M.S.Graduate StudentHayes LabCommunication between the Core Histone Tails and H1 Carboxyl-Terminal DomainEmail FanfanOmar HedayaGraduate StudentYao LabEmail OmarLisa Houston M.S.Graduate StudentGrayhack LabUnderstanding the Mechanisms of Codon Pair Inhibition Email LisaNazish Jeffery M.S.Graduate StudentBulger LabThe Role of Histone H2A Variants in ErythropoiesisEmail NazishFeng JiangGraduate StudentYao LabEmail FengMohammad Kayedkhordeh M.S.Graduate StudentMathews LabMonte Carlo: A New Approach to Predict RNA Secondary Structures Including PseudoknotsEmail MohammadGabrielle KosoyGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail GabrielleAshwin KumarGraduate StudentHayes LabEmail AshwinWan-Jung Lai M.S.Graduate StudentErmolenko LabThe Closeness of the 5’ and 3’ ends is a Universal Property of mRNAEmail Wan-JungJustin LeachGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail JustinZiwei Li Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowLi LabEmail ZiweiElinore LochGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail ElinoreBronwyn Lucas M.S.Graduate StudentMaquat LabER-associated Functions of the Double-stranded RNA-binding Protein Staufen1Email BronwynLingfeng Luo M.S.Graduate StudentYan LabThe Roles of PDE10A and PDE1A in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Pathological Vascular RemodelingEmail LingfengNicholas MacorettaGraduate StudentGorbunova LabThe Roles of Histone Variants and Histone Modifications in AgingEmail NicholasDebanjana MajiGraduate StudentKielkopf LabEmail DebanjanaLuke Marr M.S.Graduate StudentHayes LabA Novel Method for Probing Chromatin AccessibilityEmail LukeMatthew MartinezGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail MatthewAbhinav MittalGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail AbhinavMorgan Monaghan Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMunger LabEmail MorganIsreal MorenoGraduate StudentMunger LabThe Role of Non-canonical Metabolic Isoforms During HCMV InfectionEmail IsrealYuliya Muradova M.S.Graduate StudentPerkins / Zhang LabSecondary Structure Clues About Function of Leukemic Protein PRDM3Email YuliyaRina Nagao Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateMaquat LabEmail RinaRohith PalliGraduate StudentThakar LabEnsemble Boolean Networks for Pathway Analysis of Omic DataEmail RohithMukta PalshikarGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail MuktaMatthew Payea M.S.Graduate StudentPhizicky LabMutations in the Anticodon Stem Can Provoke 5’-3’ tRNA Degradation by the Rapid tRNA Decay (RTD) PathwayEmail MatthewMartha Anne PickardGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail Martha AnneAshlin PoruthoorGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail AshlinXavier Rambout Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateMaquat LabEmail XavierMatthew RaymondaGraduate StudentMunger LabEmail MatthewIrene Rodriguez-SanchezGraduate StudentMunger LabEmail IreneLetty Salas Estrada M.S.Graduate StudentGrossfield LabFast and Slow Rhodopsin Activation DynamicsEmail LettyGriffin SchroederGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail GriffinLouis Smith M.S.Graduate StudentMathews LabDo Simulations of RNA Need Explicitly Modeled Hydrogen Bond Energies to be Accurate?Email LouisYoshita SrivastavaGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail YoshitaDaniel SteinerGraduate StudentBenjamin Miller LabAlternative μPADs using Integrated PhotonicsEmail DanielHongying SunGraduate StudentMathews LabEmail HongyingSreyoshi SurGraduate StudentGrossfield LabEmail SreyoshiZhen Tan M.S.Graduate StudentMathews LabTurboFold II: RNA Structural Alignment and Secondary Structure Prediction Informed by Multiple HomologsEmail ZhenMonika TasakGraduate StudentPhizicky LabAnalysis of the tRNA Specificity of a Yeast Anticodon Loop Methyltransferase.Email MonikaJennifer TwardowskiGraduate StudentFirst YearEmail JenniferArica VanderWalGraduate StudentO'Connell LabEmail AricaEthan WalkerGraduate StudentGhaemmaghami LabGlobal Analysis of Protein Stability by Mass SpectrometryEmail EthanJiyu Wang M.S.Graduate StudentGrayhack LabMulti-protein Bridging Factor 1(Mbf1), Rps3 and Asc1 Prevent Stalled Ribosomes from FrameshiftingEmail JiyuChandani Warnasooriya Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowKielkopf LabEmail ChandaniLi XieGraduate StudentLi LabMolecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem CellsEmail LiQiangzong YinGraduate StudentYu LabEmail QiangzongHong Zhu M.S. Graduate StudentDumont LabYeast Cell Surface Display of HIV Envelope Proteins for Vaccine DevelopmentEmail HongJeffrey Zuber Ph.D.Post-Doctoral FellowMathews LabEmail Jeffrey