Post-Doctoral Fellows and Students
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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
Research Interest: Understanding the role of lncRNA Neat1 in maintaining cell identity.
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Pathomechanism of skeletal muscle weakness and degeneration in Myotonic Dystrophy
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Investigating the roles of the SF3B1 ULMs in recruiting protein phosphatases for pre-mRNA splicing
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Translational control and metabolism
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Understanding the mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing regulation by the long non-coding RNA Neat1.
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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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Characterizaon of KCNE6 and KCNE7: Novel Regulators of Cardiac Repolarizaon Channels KCNQ1 and hERG
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Structure and Functional Analysis of a Bacterial Gene-Regulatory RNA Switch that Binds the DNA Damage Product 8-Oxoguanine
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mRNA degradosomes, tRNA processing and penicillin binding proteins-4 as targets to develop novel classes of antibacterial drugs.
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Investigating the Role of RNA Helicases in Splicing Changes caused by Cancer Associated SF3B1 Mutations
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Identification and Characterization of Transcription Factors Associating with the Integrator Complex
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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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Modeling CDK12 and CDK13 Loss-of-Function to Investigate Their Roles in Alternative Polyadenylation and Neoantigen Expression
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Cytoplasmic Assembly of Nuclear RNA Endonucleases
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Structural Studies of Cas13b Accessory Protein Csx27
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Structure and Function Analysis of a Type III PreQ1 Riboswitch from Escherichia coli
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Investigating Dynamic Exchanges Among Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor Complexes
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Investigating the molecular mechanism of activation of the type VI-B2 CRISPR-Cas accessory protein Csx28
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Structure and Function Analysis of a Spermidine-Sensing Bacterial Riboswitch
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Regulation of transcription machinery by phosphorylation
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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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The role of the Type VI CRISPR-Cas accessory protein Csx27 in CRISPR-Cas13 mediated anti-viral immunity
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Defining the roles of 5’UTR length and secondary structure in eukaryotic translation initiation
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Targeted pseudouridylation identifies a novel Ψ-Ψ codon-anticodon pairing in nonsense suppression and translational recoding
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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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Experimental identification of genetic barriers to horizontal gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus
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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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Characterizing the RNA backbone can highlight important features common across 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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Structure and Function Analysis of Bacterial Riboswitches that Control Translation
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In Vitro Selection Identifies Cardiac Cell Targeting RNA Motifs
