Student Researchers
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Investigating mechanisms that regulate transcription during terminal erythroid maturation
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Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of hematopoietic cell lineage differentiation
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Improving LAIV Efficacy and Understanding Methods Underlying HIV Silencing in Astrocytes
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Elucidation of glutathione related dipeptide metabolism in cancer.
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Investigating the role of transcriptional pause-release factors in metabolically regulating cell lineage differentiation
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Understanding the effects of gestational vitamin B6 deficiency in offspring metabolic health
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Understanding the role of the REV-ERB proteins in MYC-driven circadian disruption and cancer.
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Evolving AAVs to target specific cell types for the delivery of specific cell types of the CNS. Elucidating disease mechanisms and identifying therapeutic intervention for neurodegenerative disorders.
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Determining the role of epigenetic mark histone H4 lysine K20 tri-methylation (H4K20me3) at active enhancers upon TGF-beta-induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in breast cancer.
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Understanding the mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing regulation by the long non-coding RNA Neat1.
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Regulation of the transcriptional pause and its role in breast cancer.
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Investigating the role of glutathione homeostasis in intestinal disease progression.
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Developing novel thermodynamic parameters for RNA folding stability in simulated cellular environments to improve the accuracy of RNA secondary structure predictions.
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Hunger modulation of the feeding initiation circuit in Drosophila melanogaster.
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Understanding the mismatch of RNA secondary structure based on prediction models
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Studying the post-transcriptional modifications of tRNA and their molecular association with neurodevelopment
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Investigating the role of selective autophagy of organelles in development, differentiation, and disease.
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Restoring Redox/Fyn/c-Cbl (RFC) pathway function as a therapeutic target in non-small cell lung cancers and ovarian cancers, and using transcriptomic and proteomic data to predict additional cancer types of interest
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Nucleic Acid Biology, Epigenetics, and Development. My project is focused on the role of H2A.Z in epigenetic inheritance.
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The function of lncRNAs in heart development; optimizing techniques to identify direct protein interactions with lncRNAs.
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Understanding the role of Ki-67 in alveolar epithelium plasticity
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Evaluation of single-cell pathway scoring methods and characterization of monocytes in HIV-positive individuals with atherosclerosis.
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The role of SUMOylation of HSF1 in the coordination of the heat shock response
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The interplay between neuroimmune interactions and gestational insults on resulting neurodevelopmental sequelae and disease trajectories.
