Trainees
The following lists represents graduate students and post-doctoral fellows within departmental laboratories. For students in our graduate programs please see:
Students in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Program
Students in the Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology Ph.D. Program
Post-Doctoral Associates/Fellows and Graduate Students
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maquat Lab
Research Interest:
Awarded a K00/R01 Pathway to Independence Award
Email Alice GiuliaAlessandroni
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating differential intron sensitivity to PUF60, a gene that is deleted or amplified in developmental syndromes and cancers
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
The Effect of Integrator Subunit 11 Mutations on Integrator Function and Neuronal Development
Graduate Student
Maquat Lab
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the roles of the SF3B1 ULMs in recruiting protein phosphatases for pre-mRNA splicing
Postdoctoral Associate
Ermolenko Lab
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Lueck Lab
Research Interest:
Development of tRNA-based Tools for Functional Improvement of CFTR expression
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
How Bacterial Detect Oxidative Stress: Structural and Functional Characterization of an 8-Oxoguanine-Sensing RNA Switch
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the Role of RNA Helicases in Splicing Changes caused by Cancer Associated SF3B1 Mutations
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
Identification and Characterization of Transcription Factors Associating with the Integrator Complex
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Modeling the effects of cancer-associated spliceosome mutations and identifying driving intronic features using deep-learning neural networks
Graduate Student
Gorbunova & Seluanov Lab
Research Interest:
Visualization, Purification, and Investigation of SIRT6 Nuclear Condensates
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Developing novel thermodynamic parameters for RNA folding stability in simulated cellular environments to improve the accuracy of RNA secondary structure predictions.
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Boutz Lab
Research Interest:
Modeling CDK12 and CDK13 Loss-of-Function to Investigate Their Roles in Alternative Polyadenylation and Neoantigen Expression
Graduate Student
First Year
Postdoctoral Associate
Ermolenko Lab
Yao Lab
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
Cytoplasmic Assembly of Nuclear RNA Endonucleases
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
Antiphage Defense Protein Csx27 is Associated with RADAR and RNase T-containing Antiphage Defense Systems
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
Structure and Function Analysis of a Type III PreQ1 Riboswitch from Escherichia coli
Graduate Student
Kielkopf Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating Dynamic Exchanges Among Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor Complexes
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the molecular mechanism of activation of the type VI-B2 CRISPR-Cas accessory protein Csx28
Graduate Student
Brookes Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the hormesis effect of glycative stress through click chemistry
Graduate Student
Wedekind Lab
Research Interest:
Structure and Function Analysis of a Spermidine-Sensing Bacterial Riboswitch
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the Role of HMGN1 in Modulating Inter-nucleosome Interactions of the Core-Histone Tail Domains
Graduate Student
Gorbunova & Seluanov Lab
Research Interest:
The Role of Histone Modifications and Variants in Longevity of Rodent Species
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Research Interest:
Characterization and function of a novel Integrator-associated complex
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Predicting conserved non-canonical RNA interactions using sequence comparison
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
The role of the Type VI CRISPR-Cas accessory protein Csx27 in CRISPR-Cas13 mediated anti-viral immunity
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab
Research Interest:
Defining the roles of 5’UTR length and secondary structure in eukaryotic translation initiation
Graduate Student
Yu Lab
Research Interest:
Targeted pseudouridylation identifies a novel Ψ-Ψ codon-anticodon pairing in nonsense suppression and translational recoding
Graduate Student
Patrick Murphy Lab
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
Nucleic Acid Biology, Epigenetics, and Development. My project is focused on the role of H2A.Z in epigenetic inheritance.
Graduate Student
Wagner Lab
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Ermolenko Lab
Research Interest:
Experimental identification of genetic barriers to horizontal gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus
Graduate Student
Grossfield Lab
Research Interest:
Application of Molecular Dynamics to Elucidate Key Binding Interactions for the Development of Therapeutics Against Opioid Overdose
Graduate Student
Meyer Lab
Research Interest:
Sustainable Degradation of Marine Plastics using Microbial and Enzymatic Engineered Living Materials
Graduate Student
Hayes Lab
Research Interest:
Exploring diverse nucleosome binding modes of H1 subtypes
Graduate Student
First Year
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rustchenko-Bulgac Lab
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Graduate Student
First Year
Graduate Student
Mathews Lab
Research Interest:
Characterizing the RNA backbone can highlight important features common across structures
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Graduate Student
Grossfield Lab
Research Interest:
Quantifying Free Energy of Phase Separation in Model Lipid Membranes
Graduate Student
O'Connell Lab
Research Interest:
Type VI CRISPR and associated bacterial anti-phage defense systems
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest:
High-throughput screening identifies EGLN prolyl hydroxylases as essential determinants of HCMV activation of mitochondrial metabolism
Graduate Student
Vertino Lab
Research Interest:
Examining the Functions of the KDM5 Demethylases in Luminal Lineage Breast Cancer
Graduate Student
MacLean Lab
Research Interest:
Interrogating Extracellular Unstructured Domains of AMPA Receptor Auxiliary Proteins Using FRET
Graduate Student
Munger Lab
Research Interest:
Novel CRISPR Screening Pipeline identifies JUNB as an Inflammatory Anti-viral Factor
Graduate Student
Yao Lab
Research Interest:
RNA Aptamers for Cardiac-Cell Specific Delivery of RNA Drugs
Graduate Student
Yu Lab
Graduate Student
First Year