Graduate Students
Gloria Alvarado

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

- Entry Year: 2024
 - Lab: Christensen
 - Research Topic: Investigating the effects of dynein-dynactin motor complex variation on its diverse cellular functions
 
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
 
Alexander Bemben

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Christensen
 - Research Topic: Investigating the Functional and Mechanistic Results of Heterogeneity in the Dynein Complex
 
Caroline Bond

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

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Zhang, Xiaoyu
 - Research Topic: Exploring and hijacking E3 ligase, SPOP, in the context of cancer therapeutics
 
Eduardo Campos Chávez

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

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

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

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Lackner
 - Research Topic: Investigating the effects of organelle inheritance on cellular fitness and aging
 
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

- 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

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Hartmann
 - Research Topic: Developing methodologies to engineer and synthesize bacteriophages for therapeutic and environmental applications
 
Connor Forsyth

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Mirkin/Stegh
 - Research Topic: Immunotherapeutic cGAS agonist DNA dendrons for the treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
Chloe Jackson

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Pinkett
 - Research Topic: Investigating the differential dimerization of transcription factors regulating the drug response in yeast
 
Alexis Jacob

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

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Backman
 - Research Topic: Dissecting the role of chromatin polymeric organization in regulating protein localization in neurons
 
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
 
Sarah Keuning

- Entry Year: 2024
 - Lab: Du
 - Research Topic: Structural and functional investigation of Human Calcium Homeostasis Modulator 2 (CALHM2) under native conditions
 
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
 
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
 
Marie Lamarque

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Lackner
 - Research Topic: Investigating the role of PI4P and membrane contact sites on mitochondrial dynamics
 
Ilka Lorenzo

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Wignall
 - Research Topic: Investigating the mechanism of acentrosomal spindle stability in mammalian oocytes
 
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
 
Madeline Masengarb

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Bao
 - Research Topic: Investigating the role of the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex in epidermal differentiation
 
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?
 
Jacob Miller

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Tullman-Ercek
 - Research Topic: Discerning the self-assembling properties of pdu microcompartment shell proteins PduA and PduJ
 
Genevieve Nemeth

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Gallio
 - Research Topic: Temperature-gated activation of ion channels in flies
 
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
 
Olivia Parson

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Mirkin
 - Research Topic: Developing Spherical Nucleic Acids as a Platform for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Therapy
 
Stefan Pate

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Tyo/Broadbelt
 - Research Topic: Identifying unknown enzymatic functions of evolutionary and biotechnological relevance
 
Aldeb Perera

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

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Amaral
 - Research Topic: Modeling the topological dynamics of gene regulatory networks
 
Riley Popp

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Petersen
 - Research Topic: Investigating the conserved role of muscle in whole-body regeneration
 
Anthony Pulvino

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

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

- Entry Year: 2024
 - Lab: Mirkin
 - Research Topic: Directing protein corona formation with immunostimulatory spherical nucleic acids
 
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
 
Cale Severude

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

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Lab: Vafabakhsh
 - Research Topic: Biophysical Study of the Activation and Signaling Mechanisms in Adhesion GPCRs
 
Karen Snyder

- Entry Year: 2024
 - Lab: Lane
 - Research Topic: Investigating the integration of environmental signals over time in Salmonella during infections
 
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
 
Elijah Taylor

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

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

- Entry Year: 2024
 - Lab: Mondragón
 - Research Topic: Comprehensive structural and functional characterization of virulence-regulatory transcription factors found in pathogenic bacteria
 
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
 
Cole Wilson

- Entry Year: 2022
 - Research Topic: Engineering bacteriophages for high-efficiency genetic manipulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteri
 
Feihong Xu

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

- Entry Year: 2024
 - Lab: Wignall
 - Research Topic: Investigating the role of epigenetic modifiers on chromosome segregation and spindle assembly in oocyte meiosis
 
Xinyu Ye

- Entry Year: 2023
 - Lab: Lu
 - Research Topic: Structural and Functional Characterization of Sweet Taste Receptors (Tas1R2+Tas1R3)
 




































