Graduate Students
Moneeza Agha

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: McLean
- Research Topic: Functional organization of commissural interneurons mediating left-right alternation at different speeds of locomotion in larval zebrafish
Gloria Alvarado

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Lane
- Research Topic: An investigation of cytokine expression dynamics in individual macrophages during Salmonella infection
Xavier Anderson

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Determining the roles of microtubules in injury response and regeneration
Brooke Angell

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Brickner
- Research Topic: Elucidating the molecular mechanism of transcript buffering
Katherine Berman

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Lucks
- Research Topic: Uncovering intermediate structural motifs and rearrangements in RNA folding pathways of prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems
Jonathan Boucher

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Leonard
- Research Topic: Programmable gene therapy vector tropism and in vivo cell therapy via engineered vesicles
Julianna Bourgeois

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Mirkin
- Research Topic: Glucosylceramidase spherical nucleic acids for enhanced BBB transport and lysosomal activity recovery in neurodegeneration
Evan Buechel

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Pinkett
- Research Topic: Investigation of the molecular mechanism regulating Pdr1 transcriptional activity
David Bushhouse

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Lucks
- Research Topic: Sequence and structure features of the Cbe pfl ZTP riboswitch regulate leak, sensitivity, and dynamic range
Delfin Buyco

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Kamat
- Research Topic: Determining the role of lysosomal cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) function on the biophysical properties and structure of lipid membranes
Eduardo Campos Chávez

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Mondragón
- Research Topic: Structural and biophysical studies of the T-box riboswitch
Matthew Capek

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Gallio
- Research Topic: Investigations into the evolution of nocifensive and thermosensory behavior in insects
Lucas Carter

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Backman
- Research Topic: Interrogating the molecular modulators of chromatin organization via genomic screening
Nicholas Chamberlain

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Bao
- Research Topic: Regulation of keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation by nucleocytoplasmic acetyl-CoA
Edric Choi

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Lucks
- Research Topic: Deducing RNA structure and dynamics from quantitative analysis of chemical probing reactivities
Eleanor Clark

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Investigating positional patterning systems of body-wide homeostasis and regeneration
Karlin Compton

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: LaBonne
- Research Topic: The role of H3K4 methylation in formation and maintenance of the vertebrate neural crest
Ely Contreras

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Schmidt
- Research Topic: Melanopsin phototransduction regulates diverse visual behaviors
William Corcoran

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Leonard
- Research Topic: Investigating miniproteins as synthetic receptor binding domains to enable soluble ligand-sensing cell-based therapeutics
Corinne Croslyn

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Blythe
- Research Topic: The role of gap genes in directing spatial patterns of polycomb-mediated H3K27me3 in Drosophila embryogenesis
Emily Czajkowski

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Wignall
- Research Topic: Investigating the components of spindle assembly and stability that allow for faithful chromosome segregation in C. elegans and M. musculus
Eleanor Degen

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Blythe
- Research Topic: Spatiotemporal gene regulation by the Bicoid morphogen
Simrita Deol

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Leonard
- Research Topic: Developing next-generation natural killer cell-based therapies through evaluation of tumor targeting strategies, therapeutic outputs, and signal integration strategies
Stephenie Droll

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Bao
- Research Topic: Characterizing two putative tumor suppressors in epidermal homeostasis and cancer progression
Elizabeth Duvall

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Braun
- Research Topic: Temporal network-based analysis using gene coordination and activity level to identify influential networks
Connor Forsyth

- Entry Year: 2022
- Lab: Mirkin
- Research Topic: Immunotherapeutic cGAS agonist DNA dendrons for the treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis
Natalie Gilbert

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Blythe
- Research Topic: Investigation into the role of chromatin dynamics in IFN-stimulated gene transcription
Brent Groubert

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Brickner
- Research Topic: Defining the molecular mechanism of epigenetic inheritance of H3K4me2 during transcriptional memory
Elias (Qingxu) Guan

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Understanding the effect of directional and positional input for planarian wound response and regeneration
Clare Harper

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Uncovering novel roles of MECA in cellular and mitochondrial function
Zhuoling He

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Bozza
- Research Topic: Cell type specification and gene choice bias in the mouse main olfactory system
Laura Hertz

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Lucks
- Research Topic: Investigating distinct structures within the fluoride riboswitch to understand the dynamic cotranscriptional folding process
Patric Ho

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Bao
- Research Topic: Characterization of GATAD2A-NuRD and its interaction with the BAF complex in regulating epidermal homeostasis
Hannah Horton

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Wignall
- Research Topic: Bivalent organization and role in acentrosomal spindle architecture in Caenorhabditis elegans oocyte meiosis
Alexis Jacob

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Brickner
- Research Topic: How nucleoporin-dependent spatial organization of the yeast genome impacts transcription
Jenna Jouandet

- Entry Year: 2011
- Lab: Gallio
- Research Topic: Higher order processing of temperature and humidity stimuli in the Drosophila brain
Alexandra Karagiaridi

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Pinkett
- Research Topic: Characterizing the complex assemblies and transport mechanism of the non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae ABC Sap transporter
Nolan Kennedy

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Tullman-Ercek
- Research Topic: Investigating three functions of 1,2-propanediol utilization bacterial microcompartment shell proteins
Daniel Kranz

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Klein
- Research Topic: Spatiotemporal characterization of amyloid beta oligomer proteoforms in Alzheimer's disease
Kyle Krueger

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Uncovering deeply-conserved genetic regulators of neoblasts in Hofstenia miamia
Tiffany Kuo

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Backman
- Research Topic: Studying the interplay between chromatin conformation, genome connectivity, and transcription in a gene-specific manner
Julie Ming Liang

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Tullman-Ercek
- Research Topic: Elucidating the roles of environmental and genetic factors in SPl-1 type three secretion system pathway expression and secretion
Andrew Liu

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Carthew
- Research Topic: Growth control of Drosophila melanogaster wings
Katherine Lo

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Investigating the role of wound-induced genes in planarian regeneration
Anika Marand

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Lane
- Research Topic: Investigating the dynamics of phoP expression during Salmonella infection
Jordy Martinez

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Wignall
- Research Topic: Investigating the role of the Ring Complex (RC) in meiotic spindle architecture using C. elegans oocytes
Meghan Masotti

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Kozorovitskiy
- Research Topic: Genetically targeted striatal proteomics across development in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder
Ryan McKeown

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Andersen
- Research Topic: Comparative genome-wide association studies of telomere length variation in selfing Caenorhabditis
Karla Medina

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Backman
- Research Topic: Does chromatin conformation control ovarian cancer stem cell plasticity?
Nicolas Moya

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Andersen
- Research Topic: The origins of Caenorhabditis briggsae hyperdivergent genomic regions
Juhi Narula

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Wignall
- Research Topic: Investigating the role of a conserved kinase in acentrosomal spindle organization using Caenorhabditis elegans oocytes
Amy Neely

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Bao
- Research Topic: Characterizing the role of nucleoporins in epidermal gene regulation
Tonatiuh Ocampo

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Mirkin
- Research Topic: Synthesis of virus-like particle spherical nucleic acids for enhanced therapeutics
Daniel (Jun Young) Oh

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Dombeck
- Research Topic: Immediate early gene Fos and Arc expression during CA1 place field formation
Brett Palmero

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Tullman-Ercek
- Research Topic: Determining the benefits of violacein pathway encapsulation in the 1,2-propanediol utilization bacterial microcompartment
Krishna Paranandi

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Mirkin
- Research Topic: Spherical nucleic acids as a disease-modifying therapy in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
Jungsoo Park

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Mirkin
- Research Topic: Design and use of IDH1-targeting spherical nucleic acids with enhanced gene knockdown efficacy for glioblastoma multiforme
Omar Payán Parra

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Yang
- Research Topic: Studying the formation of long-distance genomic interactions during mouse cerebellar development
Aldeb Perera

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Allada
- Research Topic: Identifying the genetic and cellular basis of sleep homeostasis in sNPF+ neurons
Emily Pujadas

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Backman
- Research Topic: Genome-wide transcriptional engineering through the regulation of the physical structure of chromatin
Anthony Pulvino

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Amato
- Research Topic: Primate microbiota metabolites and endogenous retrovirus interactions in mouse epithelial cells
Rebecca Rasmussen

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: O'Halloran/Lucks
- Research Topic: Zur- and zinc-mediated ribosomal protein regulation in Escherichia coli
Michael Ray

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Investigating the molecular mechanisms of organelle inheritance and asymmetric fitness-based organelle partitioning
Reyvin Reyes

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Rosenzweig
- Research Topic: Characterizing biosynthetic enzymes involved in the production of methanobactin
Reese Richardson

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Amaral
- Research Topic: Identifying bias and improving reproducibility in RNA sequencing computational pipelines
Sara Rigney

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: LaBonne
- Research Topic: Understanding the role of cell heterogeneity in pluripotency, lineage restriction and the establishment of neural crest cells
Kristen Rivera

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Pinkett
- Research Topic: Structural and biochemical investigation of the nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Sap ABC transporter mechanism of selectivity and transport
Erica Rosario

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Investigating the roles membrane properties and architecture have on membrane contact site formation and function
Yannick Schreiber

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Leonard
- Research Topic: Development of tunable microenvironment-responsive CAR-T cells using synthetic gene circuits to enhance potency and safety
Nicolas Scrutton Alvarado

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Yang
- Research Topic: Characterization of a novel neuronal-specific nuclear subcompartment and its mechanism of formation in the mouse cerebellum
Zachary Shaver

- Entry Year: 2022
- Lab: Jewett/Kamat
- Research Topic: Enhancing the immunogenicity of glycoconjugate vaccines through rational carrier protein design and conjugation to synthetic vesicles
Madison Spratt

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Lane
- Research Topic: Characterizing the dynamics of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium virulence expression at the single-cell level
Taojunfeng Su

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Kelleher
- Research Topic: Characterization of IDH1 proteoform signatures in cancer using top-down mass spectrometry-based proteogenomics
Jordan Summers

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Tullman-Ercek
- Research Topic: Investigating regulatory and structural elements of the type III secretion system for heterologous protein secretion
Jack Sumner

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Hartmann
- Research Topic: Pulmonary pressures: identifying lung microbiome structure, function, and dynamics
Anna Talyzina

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: He
- Research Topic: Structural characterization of RNA Polymerase II and RNA Polymerase III transcription initiation using cryo-EM
Elijah Taylor

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Mondragón
- Research Topic: A single-molecule approach to observe domain movement dynamics in type IA topoisomerases
Arielle Thames

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Jewett
- Research Topic: Developing the synthetic biologist's toolbox for targeting Siglecs for the treatment of mast cell-mediated diseases
Yiren Tu

- Entry Year: 2021
- Lab: Wang/Vafabakhsh
- Research Topic: An optogenetic investigation of the native chromatin accessibility
Frank Tucci

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Rosenzweig
- Research Topic: Investigating the role of the membrane in particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) structure and function
D. Jake VanBelzen

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Brickner
- Research Topic: The molecular requirements and ubiquity of RNAPII promoter poising in epigenetic transcriptional memory
Citlayi Villaseñor

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Kamat
- Research Topic: The lipid bilayer's role in membrane protein folding, structure, and function
Alex Vogt

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: He
- Research Topic: Biochemical and structural investigation of end processing in NHEJ
Brett Wisniewski

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Uncovering novel functions and regulators of the mitochondrial fission protein Dnm1 using cell biological, biochemical, and structural approaches
Bingxian Xu

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Braun
- Research Topic: Unveiling regulatory networks using dynamic circadian gene expression
Feihong Xu

- Entry Year: 2020
- Lab: Amaral
- Research Topic: Severe pneumonia subtyping and prognosis from multi-omics data and electronic health records