Graduate Students

Gloria Alvarado

Gloria Alvarado
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Lane
  • Research Topic: An investigation of cytokine expression dynamics in individual macrophages during Salmonella infection

Rogelio Alvarado

Rogelio Alvarado
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Tullman-Ercek
  • Research Topic: Exploring how genetic and chemical modifications on MS2 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) can lead to enhanced drug delivery.

Nikki Amarillo

Nikki Amarillo
  • Entry Year: 2024

Xavier Anderson

Xavier Anderson
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Petersen
  • Research Topic: Determining the roles of microtubules in injury response and regeneration

Brooke Angell

Brooke Angell
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Brickner
  • Research Topic: Elucidating the molecular mechanism of transcript buffering

Alexander Bemben

Alexander Bemben
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Christensen
  • Research Topic: Investigating the Functional and Mechanistic Results of Heterogeneity in the Dynein Complex.

Caroline Bond

Caroline Bond
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Meade
  • Research Topic: Exploring and hijacking E3 ligase, SPOP, in the context of cancer therapeutics.

Katherine Bond

Katherine Bond
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Hartmann

Jonathan Boucher

Jonathan Boucher
  • Entry Year: 2018
  • Lab: Leonard
  • Research Topic: Programmable gene therapy vector tropism and in vivo cell therapy via engineered vesicles

Julianna Bourgeois

Julianna Bourgeois
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Mirkin
  • Research Topic: Glucosylceramidase spherical nucleic acids for enhanced BBB transport and lysosomal activity recovery in neurodegeneration

Delfin Buyco

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

Alana Caldwell

Alana Caldwell
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Zhang, Xiaoyu
  • Research Topic: Exploring and hijacking E3 ligase, SPOP, in the context of cancer therapeutics.

Eduardo Campos Chávez

Eduardo Campos Chávez
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Mondragón
  • Research Topic: Structural and biophysical studies of the T-box riboswitch

Matthew Capek

Matthew Capek
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Gallio
  • Research Topic: Investigations into the evolution of nocifensive and thermosensory behavior in insects

Lucas Carter

Lucas Carter
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Backman
  • Research Topic: Interrogating the molecular modulators of chromatin organization via genomic screening

Nicholas Chamberlain

Nicholas Chamberlain
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Bao
  • Research Topic: Regulation of keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation by nucleocytoplasmic acetyl-CoA

Edric Choi

Edric Choi
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Lucks
  • Research Topic: Deducing RNA structure and dynamics from quantitative analysis of chemical probing reactivities

Jacob Cohen

Jacob Cohen
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Mirkin
  • Research Topic: Studying how the biological form of antigen componentry, mRNA vs peptide, of nanovaccines undergo distinct cellular processing and antigen presentation.

Karlin Compton

Karlin Compton
  • Entry Year: 2018
  • Lab: LaBonne
  • Research Topic: The role of H3K4 methylation in formation and maintenance of the vertebrate neural crest

William Corcoran

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

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

Eleanor Degen

Eleanor Degen
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Blythe
  • Research Topic: Spatiotemporal gene regulation by the Bicoid morphogen

Omar De León Vélez

Omar De León Vélez
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Klein

Stephenie Droll

Stephenie Droll
  • Entry Year: 2018
  • Lab: Bao
  • Research Topic: Characterizing two putative tumor suppressors in epidermal homeostasis and cancer progression

Chengzhe Duan

Chengzhe Duan
  • Entry Year: 2023

Elizabeth Duvall

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

Emily Faul

Emily Faul
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Lane
  • Research Topic: Investigating single-cell spatial and temporal regulation of innate immune signaling in epithelial cells responding to Listeria infection.

Yilin Feng

Yilin Feng
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Hartmann
  • Research Topic: Developing methodologies to engineer and synthesize bacteriophages for therapeutic and environmental applications.

Miranda Flores Escobar

Miranda Flores Escobar
  • Entry Year: 2023

Connor Forsyth

Connor Forsyth
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Mirkin/Stegh
  • Research Topic: Immunotherapeutic cGAS agonist DNA dendrons for the treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis

Irving Francisco Dominguez

Irving Francisco Dominguez
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Vafabakhsh

Tina (Jiayu) Fu

Tina (Jiayu) Fu
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Lucks
  • Research Topic: Investigating the roles of nascent RNA/RNA polymerase interactions in determining RNA folding and function with an emphasis on transcription termination.

Tiffany Ge

Tiffany Ge
  • Entry Year: 2018
  • Lab: Brickner

Natalie Gilbert

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

Lucy Grossmann

Lucy Grossmann
  • Entry Year: 2024

Brent Groubert

Brent Groubert
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Brickner
  • Research Topic: Defining the molecular mechanism of epigenetic inheritance of H3K4me2 during transcriptional memory

Elias (Qingxu) Guan

Elias (Qingxu) Guan
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Petersen
  • Research Topic: Understanding the effect of directional and positional input for planarian wound response and regeneration

Qingyue Guo

Qingyue Guo
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Keten

Zhuoling He

Zhuoling He
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Bozza
  • Research Topic: Cell type specification and gene choice bias in the mouse main olfactory system

Laura Hertz

Laura Hertz
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Lucks
  • Research Topic: Investigating distinct structures within the fluoride riboswitch to understand the dynamic cotranscriptional folding process

Richard Hwang

Richard Hwang
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Lee
  • Research Topic: Motion sickness signals in cerebrospinal fluid

Chioma Iheacho

Chioma Iheacho
  • Entry Year: 2024

Chloe Jackson

Chloe Jackson
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Pinkett
  • Research Topic: Investigating the differential dimerization of transcription factors regulating the drug response in yeast.

Alexis Jacob

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

Brittany Johnson

Brittany Johnson
  • Entry Year: 2024

Olivia Jones

Olivia Jones
  • Entry Year: 2024

Rivaan Kakkaramadam

Rivaan Kakkaramadam
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Backman
  • Research Topic: Dissecting the role of chromatin polymeric organization in regulating protein localization in neurons.

Alexandra Karagiaridi

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

Lydia Kenney

Lydia Kenney
  • Entry Year: 2023

Sarah Keuning

Sarah Keuning
  • Entry Year: 2024

Tim (Young Jun) Kim

Tim (Young Jun) Kim
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Mirkin
  • Research Topic: Lipid Partitioning as a Mechanism for Cellular Uptake of Spherical Nucleic Acids and the Applications Thereof.

Emily Kinnaman

Emily Kinnaman
  • Entry Year: 2024

Daniel Kranz

Daniel Kranz
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Klein
  • Research Topic: Spatiotemporal characterization of amyloid beta oligomer proteoforms in Alzheimer's disease

Kyle Krueger

Kyle Krueger
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Petersen
  • Research Topic: Uncovering deeply-conserved genetic regulators of neoblasts in Hofstenia miamia

Tiffany Kuo

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

Marie Lamarque

Marie Lamarque
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Lackner
  • Research Topic: Investigating the role of PI4P and membrane contact sites on mitochondrial dynamics.

Shiqi Liang

Shiqi Liang
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Tullman-Ercek

Katherine Lo

Katherine Lo
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Petersen
  • Research Topic: Investigating the role of wound-induced genes in planarian regeneration

Elizabeth Lopez

Elizabeth Lopez
  • Entry Year: 2023

Ilka Lorenzo

Ilka Lorenzo
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Wignall
  • Research Topic: Investigating the mechanism of acentrosomal spindle stability in mammalian oocytes.

Anika Marand

Anika Marand
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Lane
  • Research Topic: Investigating the dynamics of phoP expression during Salmonella infection

Jordy Martinez

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

Madeline Masengarb

Madeline Masengarb
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Bao
  • Research Topic: Investigating the role of the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex in epidermal differentiation.

Meghan Masotti

Meghan Masotti
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Kozorovitskiy
  • Research Topic: Genetically targeted striatal proteomics across development in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder

Tyler Masuda

Tyler Masuda
  • Entry Year: 2024

Ryan McKeown

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

Karla Medina

Karla Medina
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Backman
  • Research Topic: Does chromatin conformation control ovarian cancer stem cell plasticity?

Jacob Miller

Jacob Miller
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Tullman-Ercek
  • Research Topic: Discerning the self-assembling properties of pdu microcompartment shell proteins PduA and PduJ.

Andrew Montequin

Andrew Montequin
  • Entry Year: 2017
  • Lab: LaBonne
  • Research Topic: Patterning the vertebrate neuroectoderm

Katie Moran

Katie Moran
  • Entry Year: 2024

Juhi Narula

Juhi Narula
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Wignall
  • Research Topic: Investigating the role of a conserved kinase in acentrosomal spindle organization using Caenorhabditis elegans oocytes

Genevieve Nemeth

Genevieve Nemeth
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Gallio
  • Research Topic: Temperature-gated activation of ion channels in flies.

Tonatiuh Ocampo

Tonatiuh Ocampo
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Mirkin
  • Research Topic: Synthesis of virus-like particle spherical nucleic acids for enhanced therapeutics

Daniel (Jun Young) Oh

Daniel (Jun Young) Oh
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Dombeck
  • Research Topic: Immediate early gene Fos and Arc expression during CA1 place field formation

Isabelle Palmer

Isabelle Palmer
  • Entry Year: 2023

Brett Palmero

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

Olivia Parson

Olivia Parson
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Mirkin
  • Research Topic: Developing Spherical Nucleic Acids as a Platform for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Therapy.

Stefan Pate

Stefan Pate
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Tyo/Broadbelt
  • Research Topic: Identifying unknown enzymatic functions of evolutionary and biotechnological relevance.

Omar Payán Parra

Omar Payán Parra
  • Entry Year: 2018
  • Lab: Yang
  • Research Topic: Studying the formation of long-distance genomic interactions during mouse cerebellar development

Aldeb Perera

Aldeb Perera
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Allada
  • Research Topic: Identifying the genetic and cellular basis of sleep homeostasis in sNPF+ neurons

Maalavika Pillai

Maalavika Pillai
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Amaral
  • Research Topic: Modeling the topological dynamics of gene regulatory networks.

Riley Popp

Riley Popp
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Petersen
  • Research Topic: Investigating the conserved role of muscle in whole-body regeneration.

Anthony Pulvino

Anthony Pulvino
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Amato
  • Research Topic: Primate microbiota metabolites and endogenous retrovirus interactions in mouse epithelial cells

Michael Ray

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

Abby Reese

Abby Reese
  • Entry Year: 2024

Reyvin Reyes

Reyvin Reyes
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Rosenzweig
  • Research Topic: Characterizing biosynthetic enzymes involved in the production of methanobactin

Reese Richardson

Reese Richardson
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Amaral
  • Research Topic: Identifying bias and improving reproducibility in RNA sequencing computational pipelines

Sara Rigney

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

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

Kyle Roche

Kyle Roche
  • Entry Year: 2024

Roger Romero

Roger Romero
  • Entry Year: 2023

Erica Rosario

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

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

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

Cale Severude

Cale Severude
  • Entry Year: 2023
  • Lab: Blythe
  • Research Topic: Characterizing the functions of cohesin and condensin in Drosophila zygotic genome activation.

Zachary Shaver

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

Gracie Siffer

Gracie Siffer
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Vafabakhsh
  • Research Topic: Biophysical Study of the Activation and Signaling Mechanisms in Adhesion GPCRs.

Karen Snyder

Karen Snyder
  • Entry Year: 2024

Madison Spratt

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

Margaret Stapleton

Margaret Stapleton
  • Entry Year: 2023

Brian Stevens

  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Petersen

Evan Stroud

  • Entry Year: 2023

Taojunfeng Su

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

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

Jack Sumner
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Hartmann
  • Research Topic: Pulmonary pressures: identifying lung microbiome structure, function, and dynamics

Elijah Taylor

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

Andrea Tigges

Andrea Tigges
  • Entry Year: 2023

Caty Tramont

Caty Tramont
  • Entry Year: 2024

Yiren Tu

Yiren Tu
  • Entry Year: 2021
  • Lab: Wang/Vafabakhsh
  • Research Topic: An optogenetic investigation of the native chromatin accessibility

Frank Tucci

Frank Tucci
  • Entry Year: 2019
  • Lab: Rosenzweig
  • Research Topic: Investigating the role of the membrane in particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) structure and function

Syed Uddin

Syed Uddin
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Lee
  • Research Topic: Deciphering taste coding in the taste bud

D. Jake VanBelzen

D. Jake VanBelzen
  • Entry Year: 2017
  • Lab: Brickner
  • Research Topic: The molecular requirements and ubiquity of RNAPII promoter poising in epigenetic transcriptional memory

Michael Vannieuwenhoven

Michael Vannieuwenhoven
  • Entry Year: 2024

Citlayi Villaseñor

Citlayi Villaseñor
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: Kamat
  • Research Topic: The lipid bilayer's role in membrane protein folding, structure, and function

Alex Vogt

Alex Vogt
  • Entry Year: 2020
  • Lab: He
  • Research Topic: Biochemical and structural investigation of end processing in NHEJ

Cole Wilson

Cole Wilson
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Hartmann
  • Research Topic: Engineering bacteriophages for high-efficiency genetic manipulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteri.

Brett Wisniewski

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

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

Feihong Xu

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

Adeline Yates

Adeline Yates
  • Entry Year: 2024

Janet Zhao

Janet Zhao
  • Entry Year: 2022
  • Lab: Kozorovitskiy
  • Research Topic: Characterizing the function of bipolar disorder associated genes on mania and depression spectrum behaviours and dopamine neural activity in mice.

Ziyu Zhao

Ziyu Zhao
  • Entry Year: 2018
  • Lab: Yang
  • Research Topic: Investigation of the organization and regulation mechanism of megaloops in mouse cerebellum

Yuntong Zou

Yuntong Zou
  • Entry Year: 2024