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.Neha BijuSusiarjo LabJamie BurchettAltman LabResearch Interest: Understanding the role of the REV-ERB proteins in MYC-driven circadian disruption and cancer. Bachelard DieujusteVertino LabResearch Interest: 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.Dakarai 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. Adrian 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.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.Susiarjo LabBrandon 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. Ruoqiao WangThakar LabZachary WardSamuelson LabResearch Interest: The role of SUMOylation of HSF1 in the coordination of the heat shock response Jingyi WuThird YearJustin 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