Trainees

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

Research Interest: mRNA stem-loops can pause the ribosome by hindering A-site tRNA binding

Research Interest: Understanding the role of lncRNA Neat1 in maintaining cell identity.

Research Interest: Structure and specificity of cyclic peptides in complex with HIV TAR provides insight into inhibitor development

Research Interest: Capturing the Influence of Structural Context and Solvent in Fixed-charge Force Fields for RNA

Research Interest: Arginine Forks Are a Widespread Motif to Recognize Phosphate Backbones and Guanine Nucleobases in the RNA Major Groove

Research Interest: Pathomechanism of skeletal muscle weakness and degeneration in Myotonic Dystrophy

Research Interest: Elucidating guide-RNA design rules for efficient and highly specific Cas13 RNA-targeting in human cells

Research Interest: Similarities and differences in tRNA quality control decay pathways in evolutionarily distant yeast species

Research Interest: Understanding the roles of lncRNA Neat1 in regulating gene expression and early oncogenesis.

Research Interest: Distinguishing the roles of TatSF1 and U2AF65 paralogues in HIV vs. host gene expression

Research Interest: The Role of DDX3X in the Translation of Cardiomyocyte Transcription Factors

Research Interest: Mechanisms Which Maintain the Reading Frame During Ribosome Stalls

Research Interest: Cracking the Function of PRRC2B in Translation Initiation

Research Interest: Exploring the use of suppressor tRNAs for suppression of nonsense mutations in the CFTR gene as a potential treatment for cystic fibrosis

Research Interest: Structure and Function of the Disease-Relevant Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor U2AF2

Research Interest: Identifying common features of piRNA precursors using computational and biophysical approaches

Research Interest: RNA biology, CRISPR-Cas systems. Understanding gRNA design rules for efficient and specific Cas13 RNA-binding in human cells.

Research Interest: Structural Analysis of a Riboswitch Reveals Long-Range Interaction Spine Bridging Distant Domains

Research Interest: Characterizing the molecular underpinnings of muscle excitability in Myotonic Dystrophy and the development of potential therapeutics

Research Interest: Structure and effector-binding analysis of a PreQ1-III riboswitch suggests a fold that is tolerant to binding pocket mutations

Research Interest: tRNA modifications and quality control decay pathways in evolutionarily distant yeast species

Research Interest: Evaluating the Potential of Tumor Suppressor p53 to Preserve Pancreatic Acinar Cell Identity

Research Interest: The Role of Csx28 in CRISPR-Cas13b Anti-Phage Defense

Research Interest: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells.