Current Graduate Student Research

Student Research (Lab)

 

Stephen Anderson – RNA-Protein Interaction (Gregory)

Daniel Barnes – Developmental Neurobiology (Raper)

Alexander Berry – Disease Ecology: Dynamics in distribution and abundance in urbanizing environments using Trypanosoma cruzi (Brisson)

Erica Boetefuer – Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation (Hua-Ying Fan)

Alexandra Brown – Computational Biology and Modeling: Factors affecting symbiont transmission (Ackay)

Fabian L. Cardenaz-Diaz – Pathology, Cell Fate Decisions (Gadue)

Bianca Reo Charbonneau – Plants, Fungi and Coastal Dune Formation (Casper)

Erin Doody – Plant Genetics (Poethig

Mitra Eghbal – Evolutionary Genetics and Molecular Biology (Sniegowski)

Ben Galeota-Sprung – Evolution in E.coli populations (Sniegowski)

Riley Graham – Modeling Behavioral Epigenetics in Eusocial Insects (Berger)

Melina Gyparaki – Homology-Directed Telomere Synthesis in Telomeres Undergoing Alternative Lengthening (ALT), which is a Mechanism of Telomere Maintenance Used in 10-15% of Cancers (R.Greenberg)

Run Jin – Epigenetics (Wagner)

Jonathan Johnnidis – Memory CD8 T Cell differentiation during infections (Wherry)

Ozan Kiratli – Ecology and Evoutionary Biology (P. Schmidt)

Tomohiro Kumon – Centromere Paradox and Meiotic Drive (Lampson)

Erica Lawrence – Plant Genetics (Poethig)

Un-Sa Lee – Plant Molecular Biology; Epigenetic Regulation of Inflorescence and Flower Development (Wagner)

Aaron Leichty – Plant Genetics and Genomics (Poethig)

Hannelore MacDonald – Evolution and Ecology of Disease Systems (Brisson)

Sean McGroty – Noncoding RNAs in Neural Development (Davidson)

Takashi Nakamura – Developmental Biology and Cancer Biology (Chodosh)

Mitchell Newberry – Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Evolvability, Cooperation, and Signaling Network Evolution (Plotkin)

Ruthsabel O'Lexy – Protein Trafficking in Plants (Gallagher)

Christine Park – Neuroscience and Behavioral Genetics (Sehgal)

Ammon Perkes – Neural Behavior in Birds (M.Schmidt)

Jean Gabriel Rosario – Computational Biology, mRNA Evolution (Kim)

Janani Saikumar – Neuroscience: Brain injuries and neurodegeneration (Bonini)

Bishwas Sharma – RNA Secondary Structure and RNA-protein interactions (Gregory)

Rohini Singh – Effects of Microbes on a Social Organism (Ants) (Linksvayer)

Ananth Srinivasan – Neurobiology (Bonini)

Ekaterina Tarasovetc – Chromosome segregation in mitosis (Ekaterina Grishchuk)

Tam Tran –Disease ecology, the influence of environmental conditions on disease transmission (Brisson)

Christopher Venters – Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics in the Human Spliceosome (Dreyfuss)

Justin Walsh – Evolution of Social Behavior (Linksvayer)

Michael Warner – Biology of Social Interactions (Linksvayer)

Haoran Zhou – Ecology and Biodiversity: Photosynthesis pathways in grasses (Helliker / Ackay)

Yitian Zhou – Pathogenic Bacteria and their response to surroundings (Jun Zhu)