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.Email KadijahAbston
Graduate Student
Li Lab
Research Interest: Define the information carriers in semen underlying Pb-induced transgenerational behavioral alterations.
Chen BaoEmail ChenBao
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab
Research Interest: mRNA stem-loops can pause the ribosome by hindering A-site tRNA binding
Lauren Benoodt, M.S.Email LaurenBenoodt
Graduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Extending Pathways for Mechanistic Predictions from Large Scale Data
Michael Bryan, M.S.Email MichaelBryan
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.Email ChapinCavender
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.Email SaiChavali
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: HIV TAR RNA Recognition by Multiple Lab-Evolved Proteins Provides Insight into Cyclic-Peptide Inhibitor Design
Jessica CieslaEmail JessicaCiesla
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: Elucidating the Role of Viral Tegument Protein UL26 in Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
Brandon DavisEmail BrandonDavis
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest: Elucidating guide-RNA design rules for efficient and highly specific Cas13 RNA-targeting in human cells
Meemanage De Zoysa, M.S.Email Meemanage De Zoysa
Graduate Student
Yu Lab
Research Interest: The Effect of U2 snRNA Pseudouridylation on Pre-mRNA Splicing in S. cerevisiae
Thareendra De Zoysa, M.S.Email ThareendraDe Zoysa
Graduate Student
Phizicky Lab
Research Interest: Similarities and differences in tRNA quality control decay pathways in evolutionarily distant yeast species
Sierra Fox, M.S.Email SierraFox
Graduate Student
Bulger Lab
Research Interest: Dissecting the Function of Domain-Forming Transcriptional Enhancers
Justin GalardiEmail JustinGalardi
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest: Distinguishing the roles of TatSF1 and U2AF65 paralogues in HIV vs. host gene expression
Fanfan Hao, M.S.Email FanfanHao
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest: Communication Between the Core Histone Tails and the H1 Carboxyl-Terminal Domain
Omar HedayaEmail OmarHedaya
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: The Role of DDX3X in the Translation of Cardiomyocyte Transcription Factors
Lisa Houston, M.S.Email LisaHouston
Graduate Student
Grayhack Lab
Research Interest: Mechanisms Which Maintain the Reading Frame During Ribosome Stalls
Nazish Jeffery, M.S.Email NazishJeffery
Graduate Student
Bulger Lab
Research Interest: Histone H2A Variants are Required for Normal Erythroid Maturation
Feng JiangEmail FengJiang
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest: Cracking the Function of PRRC2B in Translation Initiation
Gabrielle KosoyEmail GabrielleKosoy
Graduate 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.
Ashwin KumarEmail AshwinKumar
Graduate Student
Topham Lab
Research Interest: Biological factors and genetic programs that drive differentiation and maintenance of Lung CD8+ Tissue Resident Memory cells
Lingfeng Luo, M.S.Email LingfengLuo
Graduate Student
Yan Lab
Research Interest: Role of PDE10A in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Hyperplasia and Pathological Vascular Remodeling
Debanjana MajiEmail DebanjanaMaji
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest: Cancer-associated mutations of the pre-mRNA splicing factor U2AF2 alter splice site signal recognition
Luke Marr, M.S.Email LukeMarr
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest: Probing Chromatin Structure Through Accessible Histone Surfaces
Abhinav MittalEmail AbhinavMittal
Graduate Student
Li Lab
Research Interest: Identifying common features of piRNA precursors using computational and biophysical approaches
Isreal Moreno, M.S.Email IsrealMoreno
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: The role of Enolase 2 during Human Cytomegalovirus infection
Rohith Palli, Ph.D.Email RohithPalli
Graduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Executable models of signaling pathways and application to HIV
Mukta PalshikarEmail MuktaPalshikar
Graduate Student
Thakar Lab
Research Interest: Executable models of pathways built using single-cell RNAseq data reveal immune cell heterogeneity in people living with HIV and atherosclerosis
Matthew RaymondaEmail MatthewRaymonda
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest: Identifying the Mechanisms of UL38 Mediated Metabolic Activation and their Contribution to Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
Griffin SchroederEmail GriffinSchroeder
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest: Structural Analysis of a Riboswitch Reveals Long-Range Interaction Spine Bridging Distant Domains
Yoshita SrivastavaEmail YoshitaSrivastava
Graduate 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
Jennifer TwardowskiEmail JenniferTwardowski
Graduate Student
Mello Lab
Research Interest: Evaluating the Potential of Tumor Suppressor p53 to Preserve Pancreatic Acinar Cell Identity
Li XieEmail LiXie
Graduate Student
Pröschel Lab
Li Lab
Research Interest: Lie Xi joined the Proschel Lab in 2016, and is currently applying his extensive molecular skill towards analyzing the effects of EIF2B mutations in VWM disease on astrocyte function. He also collaborates with the spinal cord research team on investigating the effects of new pharmacological treatments on the Immune response in acute SCI. Lie Xi also became a proud father this year!
Hong Zhu, M.S. Email HongZhu
Graduate Student
Dumont Lab
Research Interest: Yeast Cell Surface Display of HIV Envelope Glycoprotein for Vaccine Development