Graduate Students
Ryan Abdella

- Entry Year: 2014
- Lab: He
- Research Topic: Structure-function studies of human mediator in transcription initiation
Lauren Adams

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Kelleher
- Research Topic: Top-down proteomic characterization of RAS proteoform signatures in cancer
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
Heidi (Schmit) Anderson

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Investigating the role of mitochondria and altered cytoplasmic dynamics in the asymmetric retention of heat shock aggregates
Katherine Berman

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

- Entry Year: 2014
- Lab: Marko
- Research Topic: Understanding the function of SMC complexes, topoisomerase II and histone post-translational modifications in controlling the structure and mechanics of mitotic chromosomes
Jonathan Boucher

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

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Pinkett
- Research Topic: Investigation of the molecular mechanism regulating Pdr1 transcriptional activity
Gabriel Cavin-Meza

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Wignall
- Research Topic: The roles of Ran GTPase and Aurora A Kinase in C. elegans acentriolar meiotic spindle assembly
Siyu Chen

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: He
- Research Topic: Structural visualization of key intermediates in the NHEJ pathway by single particle cryo-EM
Luyi Cheng

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Lucks
- Research Topic: Uncovering the role of cotranscriptional folding in riboswitches
Liyushang Chou

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Mirkin
- Research Topic: Developing immunotherapy targeting immune suppression using spherical nucleic acids (SNAs)
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: Understanding the role of M2 ipRGCs in behavior
William Corcoran

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

- Entry Year: 2014
- Lab: Odom
- Research Topic: Exploring androgen resistance in prostate cancer
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
Nicolas Daffern

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Radhakrishnan
- Research Topic: Dynamics and evolution in the NR5A sub-family of nuclear receptors
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
Alexandra de Paz

- Entry Year: 2012
- Lab: Tyo
- Research Topic: An investigation of environmental, sequence-based, and structural determinants of DNA polymerase fidelity
Clayton Dilks

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Andersen
- Research Topic: Genetic mechanisms of benzimidazole resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
Nikita Divekar

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Wignall
- Research Topic: Characterizing the ring complex in C. elegans oocyte meiosis
Stephenie Droll

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

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Kozorovitskiy
- Research Topic: Genetically-targeted neuroproteomics of striatal neuromodulation
Molly Frey

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Scott
- Research Topic: Immunotheranostic probing of the pancreatic cancer microenvironment with nanocarriers possessing spion-loaded biomimetic ligand coronas
Kevin Gallagher

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Carthew
- Research Topic: Morphology directed fate specification during the retinal patterning of Drosophila melanogaster
Natalie Gilbert

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

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: The role of wound-induced gene expression in planarian regeneration
Clare Harper

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Uncovering novel roles of MECA in cellular and mitochondrial function
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: Investigating the functional roles of ring complex components in C. elegans oocyte meiosis
Miranda Jacobs

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Kamat
- Research Topic: Investigating how membrane mechanics affect the expression, folding, and function of a model mechanosensitive channel protein
Kristin Johnson

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: LaBonne
- Research Topic: Role of DNA and histone methylation in the maintenance of pluripotency
Jenna Jouandet

- Entry Year: 2011
- Lab: Gallio
- Research Topic: Neural substrates of decision making in Drosophila melanogaster
Nolan Kennedy

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

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Rosenzweig
- Research Topic: Heterologous approaches to the characterization of particulate methane monooxygenase
Jessica Lenoir

- Entry Year: 2014
- Lab: Horvath
- Research Topic: Negative regulation of TRAF proteins by the immune regulator LGP2
Julie Liang

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Tullman-Ercek
- Research Topic: Elucidating the roles of SPI-1 type three secretion system proteins in regulation and secretion
Brandon Liauw

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Vafabakhsh
- Research Topic: Characterizing conformational and interaction dynamics of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1
Andrew Liu

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Carthew
- Research Topic: Growth control of Drosophila melanogaster wings
Sarah Lloyd

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Bao
- Research Topic: Characterization of RNA polymerase II pausing as an essential mechanism for regulating epidermal gene expression
Alexander McFarland

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Hartmann
- Research Topic: Examining the role of multidrug-efflux pumps in conferring tolerance to biocides and antibiotics in the indoor microbiome
Amy Neely

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

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Andersen/Mangan
- Research Topic: Impact of dietary variation on phenotypic plasticity in developing Caenorhabditis elegans
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
Emily Pujadas

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

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: He
- Research Topic: Structure and function studies of RSC-mediated chromatin remodeling
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
Grant Rybnicky

- Entry Year: 2017
- Lab: Jewett
- Research Topic: Elucidating the mechanisms of type I-B CRISPR-Cas systems in Clostridia species
Michael Schamber

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Vafabakhsh
- Research Topic: Complexity of the conformational dynamics and heterodimerization of the calcium-sensing receptor
Jay Seeler

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: O'Halloran
- Research Topic: The role of EMI2 as a zinc-dependent regulator of meiosis
Loraina Stinson

- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Andersen
- Research Topic: Identification of C. elegans genetic variation underlying different responses to serotonin modulators
Aaron Sue

- Entry Year: 2012
- Lab: O'Halloran
- Research Topic: Modulating protein folding through intertissue chaperone signaling
Bethany Sump

- Entry Year: 2016
- Lab: Brickner
- Research Topic: Mechanisms of epigenetic transcriptional memory in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Arielle Thames

- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Jewett
- Research Topic: Tolerance, toxins, and titers: interrogating the biology of glycan-mediated immune modulation in three therapeutic spaces
D. Jake VanBelzen

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

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Lucks
- Research Topic: The impacts of sequence and structure on regulatory RNA function
Antoineen White

- Entry Year: 2015
- Lab: Lackner
- Research Topic: Functional characterization of novel proteins involved in membrane trafficking
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