Education / Graduate Education / PhD Programs / Biomedical Genetics and Genomics / Faculty & Students / Student Researchers Student Researchers ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAlaa AhmedDewhurst LabResearch Interest: Improving LAIV Efficacy and Understanding Methods Underlying HIV Silencing in AstrocytesEmily BerryMello LabResearch Interest: Understanding the role of lncRNA Neat1 in maintaining cell identity.Jamie BurchettAltman LabResearch Interest: Understanding the role of the REV-ERB proteins in MYC-driven circadian disruption and cancer. Adam CornwellSamuelson LabThakar LabResearch Interest: Leveraging genetic tools in model systems alongside computational tools to explore mechanisms of aging, toward understanding how we might promote healthier aging in humans.Derek CroweLand LabResearch Interest: Commonalities between primary and recurrent tumors. Leveraging genetic and molecular similarities as shared vulnerabilities to reduce rates of recurrence.Bachelard DieujusteSecond YearBio: 1st Year - Rotating in LabsDakarai EsgdailleMello LabResearch Interest: Understanding the roles of lncRNA Neat1 in regulating gene expression and early oncogenesis.McKayla FordVertino LabResearch Interest: Regulation of the transcriptional pause and its role in breast cancer. Riti KamathSecond YearAdrian Moises Molina VargasO'Connell LabResearch Interest: RNA biology, CRISPR-Cas systems. Understanding gRNA design rules for efficient and specific Cas13 RNA-binding in human cells.Daxiang Na, M.S.Patricia White LabResearch Interest: The relationship between hearing loss and Alzheimer's Disease.Duy Nguyen, BSPatrick Murphy LabMedical Scientist Training Program (M.D., Ph.D.)Thomas O'ConnorDirksen LabResearch Interest: Skeletal muscle cellular and molecular adaptations following exercise.Jayme OlsenPalis LabResearch Interest: Understanding human erythroid precursor self-renewal as part of the normal erythroid stress response and to improve the output of ex vivo culture red blood cells for cell based therapies.Ludia PackNoble LabResearch Interest: 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 interestKatherine Padilla, M.S.Second YearBrandon ParkO'Connell LabPatrick Murphy LabResearch Interest: Nucleic Acid Biology, Epigenetics, and Development. My project is focused on the role of H2A.Z in epigenetic inheritance. Jessica PerciaccanteAnderson LabResearch Interest: The function of lncRNAs in heart development; optimizing techniques to identify direct protein interactions with lncRNAs. Kira TaylorHarris LabResearch Interest: Virology, parasitology, and infectious diseasesRuoqiao WangThakar LabZachary WardSamuelson LabResearch Interest: The role of SUMOylation of HSF1 in the coordination of the heat shock response Xiaolu WeiLarracuente LabResearch Interest: How satellite DNA is regulated in the germline in Drosophila using functional genomics and cytogenetics.Jingyi WuSecond YearLi XieLi LabPröschel LabResearch Interest: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells.Justin YoungyunpipatkulMayer-Pröschel LabNoble LabResearch Interest: The interplay between neuroimmune interactions and gestational insults on resulting neurodevelopmental sequelae and disease trajectories. Shen Zhou, M.S.Noble LabResearch Interest: Mechanisms of c-Cbl inhibition in basal-like breast cancerMarco ZocchiHarris LabResearch Interest: Cancer Metabolism and Cancer Microenvironment