Trainees

Kadijah Abston
Graduate Student
Li Lab

Define the information carriers in semen underlying Pb-induced transgenerational behavioral alterations.

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Chen Bao
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab

Frameshifting Stimulating Stem Loops Induce Ribosome Pausing by Inhibiting tRNA Binding to the Ribosome A Site

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Kyle Berger M.S.
Graduate Student
Turner Lab

GU Base Pairs Flanking Internal Loops Can Adopt Diverse Structures

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Pilar Blanco-Lobo Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Martinez-Sobrido Lab

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Chapin Cavender M.S.
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab

Linear Fitting of Nonbonded Parameters for RNA Force Fields

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Sai Chavali
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab

Structural Analysis of Multiple Lab-Evolved Proteins that Bind HIV-1 TAR RNA with NanoMolar Affinity

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Hana Cho Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Maquat Lab

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Michaelle Chojnacki Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dunman Lab

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Jennifer Colquhoun M.S.
Graduate Student
Dunman Lab

Identification of antimicrobials with activity in non-laboratory media.

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Brandon Davis
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab

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Meemanage  De Zoysa M.S.
Graduate Student
Yu Lab

The Effect of U2 snRNA Pseudouridylation on Pre-mRNA Splicing in S. cerevisiae

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Thareendra De Zoysa M.S.
Graduate Student
Phizicky Lab

Conservation of tRNA Quality Control Pathways in Eukaryotes

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Debapratim Dutta M.S.
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab

Elucidating Signal Transduction Pathways in RNA Mediated Gene Regulation

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Dalia Ghoneim
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab

RNA secondary structure prediction

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Omar Hedaya
Graduate Student
Yao Lab

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Tom Hilimire Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Martinez-Sobrido Lab

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Lisa Houston M.S.
Graduate Student
Grayhack Lab

Understanding the Mechanisms of Codon Pair Inhibition

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Tian Jiang
Graduate Student
Turner Lab

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Feng Jiang
Graduate Student
Yao Lab

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Mohammad Kayedkhordeh M.S.
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab

Monte Carlo: A New Approach to Predict RNA Secondary Structures Including Pseudoknots

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Wan-Jung Lai M.S.
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab

The Closeness of the 5’ and 3’ ends is a Universal Property of mRNA

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Ziwei Li Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Li Lab

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Bronwyn Lucas M.S.
Graduate Student
Maquat Lab

ER-associated Functions of the Double-stranded RNA-binding Protein Staufen1

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Debanjana Maji
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab

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Rina Nagao Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Maquat Lab

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Nathan Napper
Graduate Student
Culver Lab

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Jun-Gyu Park Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Martinez-Sobrido Lab

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Gines Perez Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Martinez-Sobrido Lab

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Xavier Rambout Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Maquat Lab

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Brian Smith Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Culver Lab

Using biochemical techniques to identify and characterize the roles of novel auxiliary protein factors in 30S ribosome biogenesis and decipher how 16S rRNA maturation is integrated into small ribosomal subunit biogenesis events in E.coli.

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Louis Smith M.S.
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab

Do Simulations of RNA Need Explicitly Modeled Hydrogen Bond Energies to be Accurate?

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Hongying Sun
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab

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Matthew Tanner M.S.
Graduate Student
Thornton Lab

Expanded repeat DNA tracts and their roles in splicing-mediated disease in myotonic dystrophy

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Monika Tasak
Graduate Student
Phizicky Lab

Analysis of the tRNA Specificity of a Yeast Anticodon Loop Methyltransferase.

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Arica VanderWal
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab

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Jiyu Wang M.S.
Graduate Student
Grayhack Lab

Stalled Ribosomes Maintain the Reading Frame Due to the Multi-protein Bridging Factor 1(Mbf1), Rps3 and Asc1

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Chandani Warnasooriya Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Wedekind Lab
Kielkopf Lab

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Li Xie
Graduate Student
Li Lab

Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells

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Chengjin Ye Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Martinez-Sobrido Lab

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Jeffrey Zuber Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mathews Lab

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