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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
Gloria Alvarado
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Lane
- Research Topic: An investigation of cytokine expression dynamics in individual macrophages during Salmonella infection
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
Xavier Anderson
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Determining the roles of microtubules in injury response and regeneration
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: Using micromanipulation to study the structure 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
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
Matthew Capek
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Gallio
- Research Topic: Investigations into the evolution of nocifensive and thermosensory behavior in insects
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)
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: 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
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
Eleanor Degen
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Blythe
- Research Topic: Characterization of the in vivo affinity of the morphogen Bicoid for target enhancers
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
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: Development and optimization of functionalized self-assembling polymeric nanobiomaterials
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
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: 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
Daniel Kranz
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Klein
- Research Topic: Spatiotemporal characterization of amyloid beta oligomer proteoforms in Alzheimer's disease
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
Katherine Lo
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Petersen
- Research Topic: Investigating the role of wound-induced genes in planarian regeneration
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
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
Joy Nyaanga
- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Andersen/Mangan
- Research Topic: Impact of dietary variation on phenotypic plasticity in developing Caenorhabditis elegans
Jun Young (Daniel) Oh
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Dombeck
- Research Topic: Immediate early gene Fos and Arc expression during CA1 place field formation
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
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
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
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
Madison Spratt
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Lane
- Research Topic: Characterizing the dynamics of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium virulence expression at the single-cell level
Loraina Stinson
- Entry Year: 2018
- Lab: Andersen
- Research Topic: Identification of C. elegans genetic variation underlying different responses to serotonin modulators
Taojunfeng Su
- Entry Year: 2019
- Lab: Kelleher
- Research Topic: Characterization of IDH1 proteoform signatures in cancer using top-down mass spectrometry-based proteogenomics
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
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: Tolerance, toxins, and titers: interrogating the biology of glycan-mediated immune modulation in three therapeutic spaces
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
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
