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Graduate Students
Current Ph.D. Students
Mohar Chattopadhay
Stephen D`Amico
Melissa Farrell
Wei Chieh Huang
Jamie LeBarron
Jack Lee
Ling Li
Jia Lu
Hazeem Okunola
Inefta Reid
Teresa Shakespeare
Kelly Warren
Current M.S. Students
Ilya Danileyko
Anthony Dewar
Hannah Odunaiya
Matthew Perkins
Carolina Pinzon
Oneica Poole
Vladimir Rinchere
Yadira Rodriguez
Danielle Rosemond
Anas Sawas
Biin Sung
Interdepartmental Dissertation Students
Shalini Singh
Hyon-Joon Kim
Victoria Prieto
Adam Schuldt
Chia-yen Wu
Tejus Bale
Hyun Hye Chun
Aniel Nieves-Gonzalez
Omoz Aisiku
Jingting Wang
Hannah Chang
Xinnian Chen
Juan Manuel Cordovez-Alvarez
Yun-Ching Shen
Hui-Jing Yu
Postdoctoral Fellows
Yunting Chen
Adam DeRosa
Yuan Gao
Giedrius Kanaporis
Wanqing Li
Gulistan Mese
Parijat Sengupta
Huan Wang
Wei Wang
Alumni from 1990 on
| Amy Walsh | Patricina Pellicina | Teili Wang |
| Micheal Ziebell | Shari Spector | Jiyun Kim |
| Maria E. Cifuentes | Jingyi Shi | HanGang Yu |
| Wen Zhu | Jiann-Liang Chen | Gerrard Sanacora |
| Yuri Krivenko | Susana Velasco-Miguel | Hyun Kim |
| Christopher Picken | David Cullinan | John Elliot |
| Deepika Bhargava | Ryan Beaudoin | Loren Runnels |
| Jiying Wu | Monique Van der Molen | Christopher Kushmerick |
| Jiyao Wang | Phillip Ortiz | Zhi-Jun He |
| James R. Tonra | Yong-Hwan Lee | Junyuan Gao |
| Jianmin Cui | Jaling Hua | Wendy Gruner |
| Adam J. Rich | Fang Chang | Ning Wu |
| Shan Ping Yu | Brenda Daniels | Robert Kiaser |
| Christopher Coburn | Deeptankar Demazumder | Edward Tall |
| Francisco Martinez | Lori Seischab | Zaher Nahle |
| Ashish Patel | Jennifer Bohon | Marvin O'Neal |
| Marjorie BonHomme | Raphael Hazel | Omar Armstrong |
| Payal Pallavi | Paxton Provitera | Song Xiang |
| Nathan Manes | Yunsook Choi | Finly Philip |
| Urszula Golebiewska | Joe Audie | Omar Bakht |
| Wei Wang | Louisa Dowal | Dwan Gerido |
| Huan Wang | Johnny Johnson | Margaret Luk-Paszyc |
| Yi-nan Lee |
Alumni Highlights
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Position and Description |
| Shari Spector | 1999 | Senior Research Scientist in Virology and Biomolecular R&D at Millipore Corporation in Bedford, MA - I Perform protein chemistry analysis for an existing project and to develop protein chemistry capabilities within a new Biomolecular Laboratory at Millipore. |
| Loren Runnels | 1997 | Assistant Professor at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - My research effort is dedicated to investigating the physiological function of a unique bifunctional ion channel TRPM7, which our most recent studies indicate is involved in cell motility. TRPM7 is a ubiquitously expressed calcium-permeant ion channel that is fused to a protein kinase. It is a member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family with greatest homology to the putative tumor-suppressor melastatin. Cell motility and adhesion are critical to a broad array of physiological processes, such as the ability of leukocytes to home during the inflammatory response, the processes of blood clotting by platelets, neural crest cell migration and axon migration. TRPM7šs ubiquitous expression makes it a potential participant in all these cellular processes. |
| Jiyao Wang | 2002 | Postdoc in Dr. Diana Murray's lab at Weill Medical College of Cornell University - I am studying the interactions between proteins and membranes using bioinformatic and computational tools. Specifically, I build homology models for C2 domains and calculate its electrostatic interactions with acidic bilayers using DELPHI program. |
| Amy B. Hall (Walsh) | 2000 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School - In phagocytes, the coupling of integrins to the actin cytoskeleton is involved in many cellular processes, including cell migration and complement (aMb2)-mediated phagocytosis. The Rho family of small GTPases plays critical roles in regulating cytoskeletal rearrangements and has been implicated in both of these processes. However, the exact mechanisms by which integrins induce the activation of Rho GTPases are not known. Since Vav family guanine nucleotide exchange factors are well-recognized activators of Rho GTPases, I am examining the role of Vav proteins in integrin-dependent phagocyte functions using Vav-deficient primary mouse macrophages. |
| Jianmin Cui | 1992 | Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University - Teach graduate and undergraduate students and do research on ion channels about their physiological function, their role in diseases, and their structure-function relationship. |