Post-Doctoral Fellows and Students
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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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Awarded a K00/R01 Pathway to Independence Award
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Investigating differential intron sensitivity to PUF60, a gene that is deleted or amplified in developmental syndromes and cancers
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Development of gene delivery techniques to the lung using electroporation and modified nucleic acids
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The Effect of Integrator Subunit 11 Mutations on Integrator Function and Neuronal Development
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RBP function and mechanism in posttranscriptional regulation in heart disease
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Translational control and metabolism
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Suppression of cerebral cavernous malformation nonsense mutation using anti-codon edited tRNAs
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Development of tRNA-based Tools for Functional Improvement of CFTR expression
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How Bacterial Detect Oxidative Stress: Structural and Functional Characterization of an 8-Oxoguanine-Sensing RNA Switch
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The Integrator Complex is Required for HSV-1 Infection
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Investigating the Role of RNA Helicases in Splicing Changes caused by Cancer Associated SF3B1 Mutations
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HEXIM1 Integrates Transcriptional Stress and Cell Cycle Arrest Following Dual Disruption of Integrator and NELF
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Modeling the effects of cancer-associated spliceosome mutations and identifying driving intronic features using deep-learning neural networks
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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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Translational regulation of cardiac aging process in cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts; translation elongation and termination; protein science and biochemistry
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Antiphage Defense Protein Csx27 is Associated with RADAR and RNase T-containing Antiphage Defense Systems
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Investigating the Dynamics of the PreQ1-III Riboswitch
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Structural Analysis and Mechanism of Translation Regulation by a Class I Type III preQ1 Riboswitch from Escherichia coli
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Investigating Dynamic Exchanges Among Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor Complexes
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CRISPR-Cas13b activated Csx28 functions as a tRNA-gated membrane pore
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Structure and Function Analysis of a Spermidine-Sensing Bacterial Riboswitch
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Characterization and function of a novel Integrator-associated complex
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Understanding the mismatch of RNA secondary structure based on prediction models
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Targeting A. baumannii efflux pumps via small molecule inhibitors to improve existing antibiotic treatments' effectiveness and combat adaptive efflux-mediated drug resistance.
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Predicting conserved non-canonical RNA interactions using sequence comparison
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Defining the roles of 5’UTR length and secondary structure in eukaryotic translation initiation
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RBP PTMs, etiology, and medicine for metabolic syndrome and heart failure
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Developing a Small Molecule Integrator Inhibitor to Probe Its Role During Erythropoiesis
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The function of lncRNAs in heart development; optimizing techniques to identify direct protein interactions with lncRNAs.
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Nuclear Inhibitor of Protein Phosphatase-1(NIPP1) regulates phosphorylation of SF3B1, a cancer-relevant pre-mRNA splicing factor
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Elucidating the Epigenetic Mechanisms that Regulate stress and steady-state Erythropoiesis, with the overarching goal of ameliorating symptoms in hemoglobinopathies.
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Role of influenza PA on host adaptation
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Regulation of Insulin Receptor Translation by a Conserved uORF
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Developing a 9-dimensional RNA-barcode to characterize RNA-containing structures
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Type VI CRISPR and associated bacterial anti-phage defense systems
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Isolating the Role of Myotonia in Myotonic Dystrophy Pathogenesis
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Immobilization of transgenic plant cells towards bioprinting for production of a recombinant biodefense agent
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RNA Aptamers for Cardiac-Cell Specific Delivery of RNA Drugs
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RNA helicases & translation factors in cardiomyocytes and proteasome degradation pathway
