Kristin Chesnutt

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at The Ohio State University

Advisor: Michael Poirier

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Jamison Law

Current Position: Protein Biochemist at Battelle

Advisor: Venkat Gopalan

Thesis: Identifying inhibitors of the FraB deglycase, a drug target involved in the metabolism of fructose-asparagine in non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica

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Rodrigo Muzquiz

Current Position: Field Service Engineer at Bruker BioSpin

Advisor: Mark Foster

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Anthony Rish

Advisor: Tianmin Fu

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Christopher Gilbert

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University

Advisor: Christoph Lepper

Thesis: A Multiplayer Game: Uncovering the Role of N6-Methyladenosine in Skeletal Muscle

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Kaitlyn Kray

Current Position: Project Manager, Medicine at The Ohio State University, Office of Research Administration

Advisor: Arthur Burghes

Thesis: Therapeutic Intervention to Rescue the SMA Phenotype and Elucidate the Functions Required to Rescue the Disease

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Isobel Bowles

Current Position: Research Associate B at Dartmouth College

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Defining the biological significance of tRNA methyltransferase 10 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and characterizing the role of its m1G9 modification in tRNA structure

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Brian Scarpitti

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, ORISE Fellow at U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Advisor: Zachary Schultz

Thesis: Assessing Nanoparticle Uptake by Raman Microscopy

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Di Ma

Current Position: AI/ML Specialist at Nationwide Insurance

Advisor: Chen Gu

Thesis: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurological Disorders

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Nicole Wagner

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Structure and dynamics in site-specific recombination

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Blake Szkoda

Current Position: Scientist II at Forge Biologics

Advisor: Venkat Gopalan

Thesis: Biochemical characterization of FraR, a transcription factor in Salmonella enterica that regulates fructose-asparagine metabolism

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Jordan Hempfling

Current Position: Scientist I at Sanofi

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: The Development of a Method for Protein N-Terminal Conjugation and Bicyclic Peptidyl Inhibitors

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Songyu Dong

Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at University of Virginia School of Medicine

Advisor: Dmitri Kudryashov

Thesis: Bringing Actin-Specific Bacterial ADP-Ribosylating Toxins to a Physiological Context: the Role of Actin Binding Proteins

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Jun-Kyu Byun

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Quality-control mechanisms to ensure accurate proline codon translation in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Michael Ryan-Simkins

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Merck Animal Health

Advisor: Thomas Magliery

Thesis: The ScF_V Interdomain Linker: A Protein Engineering Hotspot for Introducing Novel Functions into and Tuning the Biophysical Properties of ScF_V Antibody Fragments

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Chau Hong Duc Phan

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Regeneron

Advisor: Venkat Gopalan

Thesis: Elucidation of structure-function relationships in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii RNase P, a multi-subunit catalytic ribonucleoprotein

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Nathaniel Burge

Current Position: Research and Development Scientist at Microbiologics

Advisor: Michael Poirier

Thesis: Investigations of the Mechanisms of Transcription Regulation by Histone H1

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Abigail Leggett

Current Position: Assistant Scientific Director at Healthcare Consultancy Group

Advisor: Rafael Bruschweiler

Thesis: NMR-based Metabolomics: New Analysis Tools and Application to Metabolism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms in Various Growth Conditions

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Zachary Howard

Current Position: Scientist II at Stealth Mode Biotech

Advisor: Jill Rafael-Fortney

Thesis: Mineralocorticoid and Glucocorticoid Signaling Differently Affect Skeletal Muscle Inflammation in Muscular Dystrophy

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Miranda Gardner

Current Position: Chemist II at Battelle

Advisor: Michael Freitas

Thesis: An Evaluation of Protein Quantification Methods in Shotgun Proteomics and Applications in Multi-Omics

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Brandon Neel

Current Position: Staff Scientist, Protein Design & Development Lead at Detect

Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor

Thesis: Adhesion and Mechanics in the Cadherin Superfamily of Proteins

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Jenna Greve

Current Position: Manager, Nonclinical Strategy and Report Management at Sarepta Therapeutics

Advisor: James Cowan

Thesis: Characterization and Development of Metallocatalysts

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Anton Blatnik

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at Case Western Reserve University

Advisor: Arthur Burghes

Thesis: Elucidating the Mechanism of Disease Pathogenesis in SMA by Studying SMN Missense Mutant Function

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Melody Holmquist

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Using native mass spectrometry to study the role of homo-oligomeric proteins in gene regulation by using TRAP as a model protein system

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Jacob Bowman

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Buffalo

Advisor: Steffen Lindert

Thesis: Investigation and modulation of cardiac troponin C hydrophobic patch opening through umbrella sampling

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Samantha Sarni

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemist at Regeneron

Advisor: Vicki Wysocki

Thesis: Characterization of RNA and RNA-Protein Complexes by Native Mass Spectrometry

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Kenneth Gerien

Current Position: Senior Bioprocess Scientist at Boston Bioprocess

Advisor: Jian-Qiu Wu

Thesis: The roles of Mso1 and Sec1 in fission yeast exocytosis during cytokinesis

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Bernice Agana

Current Position: Clinical Chemistry Fellow at John Hopkins Medicine

Advisor: Vicki Wysocki

Thesis: Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metabolomics: Understanding Protein Interactions, Proteome Complexity and Perturbations in Cellular Metabolism

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Samantha Dodbele

Current Position: Senior Manager at Pointe Advisory

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Characterization of the function and mechanism of an orphan 3'-5' polymerase implicated in noncoding RNA processing

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Vedud Purde

Current Position: Senior Advisor at Eli Lilly and Company

Advisor: Dmitri Kudryashov

Thesis: Novel Intein-based Technology for Highly Selective Targeting and Elimination of Cancer

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Nathan Howell

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Substrate specificity of the Trm10 m1R9 tRNA methyltransferase family

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Jonathan Picking

Current Position: Biologist II at Battelle

Advisor: Joseph Krzycki

Thesis: Glycine Betaine and Proline Betaine Specific Methyltransferases of the MttB Superfamily

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Allison Chasser

Current Position: Clinical Trial Manager at PERI

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Understanding The Role Of Transcription Factor Regulation Of Development

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Camille Schneider

Current Position: Senior Scientist II at Abbott

Advisor: Hannah Shafaat

Thesis: Modeling Complexity: Development and Characterization of a Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Mimic to Identify Key Factors for Reactivity

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Rebecca Steiner

Current Position: Assistant Dean of Students at Lincoln Memorial University - Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

Advisor: Michael Ibba

Thesis: Regulation of Translational Quality Control by Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase

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Alexandra Kuzmishin Nagy

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Earlham College

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Maintaining Fidelity of Translation by Bacterial Trans-Editing Proteins: Caulobacter crescentus ProXp-ala and Rhodopseudomonas palustris ProXp-x

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Jane Frandsen

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State University

Advisor: Tina Henkin

Thesis: Non-canonical T box riboswitch-tRNA recognition in ileS variants

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Xinyu Zhou

Advisor: Jianjie Ma

Thesis: Modulation of Ca2+ Signaling by Trimeric Intracellular Cation Channels in the Heart

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Sri Karthika Shanmugam

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at American Heart Association

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Investigation of amino-tail translocation by the conserved YidC, Sec and independent pathways

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Andrew Reed

Current Position: Scientist II, Early Stage Process Development Gene Therapy at Sarepta Therapeutics

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: A Structural and Biochemical Investigation of Human DNA Polymerase Beta

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Daniel Dayeh

Current Position: Principal Scientist at Regeneron

Advisor: Kotaro Nakanishi

Thesis: Mechanistic insights into the slicing specificity of Argonaute and development of a programmable RNA endonuclease

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Jeffrey Slater

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Enzymology at Johnson & Johnson

Advisor: Hannah Shafaat

Thesis: Nickel-Substituted Rubredoxin as a Protein-Based Enzymatic Mimic for [NiFe] Hydrogenase

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Timothy Grunkemeyer

Current Position: Scientist, Physical Biochemistry at Biogen

Advisor: Thomas Magliery

Thesis: Exploring the Mechanism of Paraoxonase-1: Comparative and Combinatorial Probing of the Six-bladed β-propeller Hydrolase Active Sites

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Anastasia Manesis

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Hannah Shafaat

Thesis: Bioorganometallic Chemistry within Nickel-Substituted Azurin: From Protein Design to Reactivity

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Walter Zahurancik

Current Position: Research Senior Associate at The Ohio State University

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: Kinetic Characterization of Human DNA Polymerase e

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David Bowles

Current Position: Patent Examiner at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Advisor: Thomas Magliery

Thesis: Engineering the S7S8 Loop of Human Tumor Suppressor p53 and NMR Studies of E. coli Repressor of Primer and E. raikovi Er-23

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Austin Raper

Current Position: Associate Director, Downstream Process Development and Formulation Development, Gene Therapy at Sarepta Therapeutics

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: Mechanistic Studies of DNA Replication, Lesion Bypass, and Editing

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Anthony Stephenson

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Forge Biologics

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: Mechanistic studies of enzymes involved in DNA transactions

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Grace Cooper-Olson

Current Position: Associate Director at Sarepta Therapeutics

Advisor: Jeffrey Kuret

Thesis: Molecular Markers of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases

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Cecil Howard

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Excet, Inc.

Advisor: Jennifer Ottesen

Thesis: Altering Histone Dynamics in vitro and in vivo

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Nicholas Long

Current Position: Senior Scientist II at Entrada Therapeutics

Advisor: Thomas Magliery

Thesis: Biophysical Enhancement of Protein Therapeutics and Diagnostics Through Engineered Linkers

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Stephanie Hicks

Current Position: Regulatory Compliance Officer at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Advisor: Mark Peeples

Thesis: Identification and Characterization of Essential Residues at the Apex of the RSV Fusion Protein

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Erik Olson

Current Position: Associate Attorney at Ice Miller LLP

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Retroviral 5'-untranslated region RNA structure and interactions with viral and host proteins

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Aiswarya Lakshmi Krishnamohan

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Dyno Therapeutics

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Biochemical characterization of catalytic mechanism and substrate recognition by the atypical SPOUT tRNA methyltransferase, Trm10

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Eric Danhart

Current Position: Senior Lecturer at Ohio State University

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Protein and RNA structure and function by NMR spectroscopy

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David Heisler

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Duquesne University

Advisor: Dmitri Kudryashov

Thesis: Role of Actin and Actin-binding Proteins in the Pathogenesis of Actin-targeting Bacterial Toxins

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Alice Duchon

Current Position: Staff Scientist at National Cancer Institute

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Noncanonical function of cellular translational machinery in human immunodeficiency virus type-1 assembly and primer packaging

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Enkhtuul Tsogtbaatar

Current Position: Senior Associate at Stifel Financial Corp.

Advisor: Ana Alonso

Thesis: Use of metabolomics and 13C-labeling approaches to elucidate pathways involved in oil synthesis of pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) embryos

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Christine Wachnowsky

Current Position: Clinical Research Associate at Medpace

Advisor: James Cowan

Thesis: Iron-sulfur Cluster Trafficking – Extension of Nfu Protein Function to Novel Protein Partners and Cluster Delivery Mechanisms

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Chaojie Wang

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb

Advisor: Matthew Ringel

Thesis: Characterizing the Role of RCAN1-4 in Thyroid Cancer Growth and Metastasis

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Patrick Heilman

Current Position: Laboratory Manager at Elemental Materials Technology

Advisor: Stephen Kolb

Thesis: Interrogating the Functional Consequences of Peripheral Neuropathy Associated Mutations in Heat Shock Protein B1

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Mahesh Chemudupati

Current Position: Principal Medical Writer at AbbVie

Advisor: Stephen Osmani

Thesis: Investigating the effects of nuclear envelope proteins on nuclear structure and organization in Aspergillus nidulans

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Xin Liu

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University

Advisor: Michael Ostrowski

Thesis: Function of Pten in Stromal Fibroblasts in Regulating Pacreatic Tumorigenesis and in Regulating Autophagy

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Pei Zhang

Current Position: Data Scientist at Meta

Advisor: Mark Parthun

Thesis: Identification of Replication-Dependent and Replication-Independent Linker Histone Complexes

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Jason Pitarresi

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Umass Chan Medical School

Advisor: Michael Ostrowski

Thesis: The Roles of Hedgehog, Pten, and Ets2 Signaling in the Regulation of Pancreatic Tumorigenesis by Stromal Fibroblasts

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Jessica Chadwick

Current Position: Senior Scientist at SomaLogic

Advisor: Jill Rafael-Fortney

Thesis: Mineralocorticoid Receptors: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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Brandon Crowe

Current Position: Chemistry Teacher at Cristo Rey Columbus High School

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Structural Features of Proteins Involved in Pfu RNase P or Recruitment of Viral Genomes to Human Chromatin

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Owen Branson

Current Position: Field Service Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Advisor: Michael Freitas

Thesis: Improved tag-count approaches for label-free quantitation of proteome differences in bottom-up proteomic experiments

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Christopher Smith

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Amgen

Advisor: Charles Bell

Thesis: Insights into the structure and function of Red beta: the unique single-strand annealing protein of bacteriophage lambda

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Chitra Iyer

Advisor: Arthur Burghes

Thesis: The Role of Muscle and Nerve in Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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Yicheng Long

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Characterization of the diverse functions of a family of 3'-5' reverse polymerases

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Diana Norden

Current Position: Senior Research & Communications Scientist at Integral Molecular

Advisor: Jonathan Godbout

Thesis: Astrocyte Mediated Regulation of Activated Microglia: Implications for Exaggerated Microglial Activation in Aged Mice Following Peripheral Inflammatory Challenge

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Qi Liu

Current Position: Manager Research Program Management at Regeneron

Advisor: Kurt Fredrick

Thesis: Roles of Inter-subunit Bridges of the Ribosome in Translation Initiation and Elongation

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Xinlei Pan

Current Position: Process Scientist II at Boehringer Ingelheim

Advisor: Charles Bell

Thesis: Structure and mechanism of the exonuclease enzymes of viral SynExo recombination systems

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Rohan Balakrishnan

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, San Diego

Advisor: Kurt Fredrick

Thesis: Role of the conserved GTPase LepA in Escherichia coli

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William Swinehart

Current Position: Assistant Professor at George Fox University

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: A Biochemical Investigation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Trm10 and Implications of 1-methylguanosine for tRNA Structure and Function

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Seth Hennon

Current Position: Forecasting Manager at GSK

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Structural and functional studies of the Escherichia coli YidC

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Le Yu

Current Position: Senior Director at WuXi Biologics

Advisor: Shang-Tian Yang

Thesis: Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium tyrobutyricum for Enhanced n-Butanol Production and Sugar Utilization

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Ziwei Liu

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Characterization of the in vitro and in vivo specificity of trans-editing proteins and interacting aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

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Danesh Sopariwala

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Advisor: Muthu Periasamy

Thesis: Sarcolipin Overexpression Improves Fatigue Resistance by Enhancing Skeletal Muscle Energetics

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Raunak Soman

Current Position: Director at Sanzyme Biologics

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Structure-function studies and polarity and charge as substrate determinants for the E. coli YidC

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Sudha Govindaraju

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar & Research Scientist at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Advisor: Beth Lee

Thesis: Transcriptional Regulation of HUR in Renal Stress

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Medha Raina

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Upstream Process Development at Novavax

Advisor: Michael Ibba

Thesis: The Role in Translation of Editing and Multi-Synthetase Complex Formation by Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases

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Sean McClory

Current Position: Assistant Professor at La Salle University

Advisor: Kurt Fredrick

Thesis: Insights Into the Decoding Mechanism from Studies of Mutant Ribosomes

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Ryan Hard

Current Position: Project Scientist at University of California, San Diego

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Sequence Specificity of BUZ, PDZ, SH2, and Tandem BRCT Domains

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Rajbir Singh

Current Position: Corporate Engineer, Operations Manager at Axium Packaging

Advisor: Mark Parthun

Thesis: Histone Isoforms: From Epigenetic Regulation To Cancer Screening

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Zhongqiang Wang

Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Associate Director at Gilead Sciences

Advisor: Shang-Tian Yang

Thesis: Process Development and Metabolic Engineering for Enhanced Propionic Acid Production by Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermanii

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Ehab Ammar

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of South Florida Patel College of Global Sustainability

Advisor: Shang-Tian Yang

Thesis: Metabolic Engineering of Propionibacteria for Enhanced Propionic Acid and n-Propanol Fermentative Production

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Yoshio Ikeda

Advisor: Donald Dean

Thesis: A Calcium ATPase in Mosquito Larvae as a Putative Receptor for Cry Toxins

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Timothy Gordon

Current Position: Director of Data Science at Huntington National Bank

Advisor: Charles Brooks

Thesis: The Biological, Structural and Kinetic Properties of Prolactin, Prolactin Receptor Antagonists, Growth Hormone and the Prolactin Receptor

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Zhenzhen Liu

Current Position: Senior Director of CMC Regulatory Affairs at Regeneron

Advisor: Lai Wu

Thesis: The Roles of Interleukin-27 in Tumor Immunity

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Lu Zhu

Current Position: Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Studies on Substrate Determinants of YidC/Sec Pathway and Insertion/Folding of Membrane Proteins in E.Coli

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Jacqueline Boff

Current Position: Healthcare Marketing Brand Manager at Abbott

Advisor: Jonathan Godbout

Thesis: An Early-Life Infection with Escherichia coli in BALB/c Mice causes Long-Lasting Deficits in Behavior, Brain Development, and Microglial Reactivity

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Eric Johnson

Current Position: Genomics Field Application Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories

Advisor: Federica Montanaro

Thesis: A new model for the dystrophin associated protein complex in striated muscles

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Brian Smith

Advisor: Jane Jackman

Thesis: Mechanistic insights into a reverse polymerase

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Tingting Wang

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Legend Biotech

Advisor: Yong Xia

Thesis: Molecular Regulation of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase

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Jeffrey Joyner

Current Position: Research Scientist at Metallopharm LLC

Advisor: James Cowan

Thesis: Synthesis and Evaluation of Catalytic Metallodrugs and Analysis of RNA Cleavage by Mass Spectrometry

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Sharnise Mitchell

Current Position: Research Program Manager at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Advisor: Tina Henkin

Thesis: Characterization of the Lysine-Responsive L Box Riboswitch

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Abdulkerim Eroglu

Current Position: Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University

Advisor: Earl Harrison

Thesis: Apocarotenoids Modulate Retinoid Receptors

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Christopher Jones

Current Position: Lenfant Fellow at The National Institutes of Health

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Primer tRNA annealing by human immunodeficiency virus type 1

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Mom Das

Current Position: Senior Research Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Mechanistic Studies of Class II Bacterial Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase and YbaK Editing

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Varun Dewan

Current Position: Periodic Reporting Expert Oversight at IQVIA

Advisor: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Thesis: Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase-Capsid Interaction in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1: Implications for the Priming of Reverse Transcription and Therapeutic Development

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Yifei Zhang

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advisor: Harald Vaessin

Thesis: Fred Regulatory Network in Drosophila Neurogenesis

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Sung-Suk Suh

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University

Advisor: Carlo Croce

Thesis: A Study of Micrornas Associated with Multiple Myeloma Pathogenesis and Micorrnas/tp53 Feedback Circuit in Human Cancers, Multiple Myeloma and Glioblastoma Multiforme

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John Shimko

Current Position: Senior Lecturer at The Ohio State University

Advisor: Jennifer Ottesen

Thesis: Synthetic Tools for the Preparation of Modified Histones

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Shahid Rameez

Current Position: Director, Bioprocess Drug Substance Development and Commercialization at Merck

Advisor: Andre Palmer

Thesis: Engineering Cellular Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers For Use In Transfusion Medicine

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Betina McNeil

Current Position: Research Compliance Analyst II at The Ohio State University

Advisor: Donald Dean

Thesis: Mutational Analysis and Characterization of Microbial Pesticides Isolated from Bacillus Thuringiensis

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Payal Mehta

Current Position: Director, Bioproducts Research and Development at Eli Lilly and Company

Advisor: Susheela Tridandapani

Thesis: Molecular Analysis of Regulation of Macrophage Fcγ Receptor Function: Implications for Tumor Immunotherapy

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Shanen Sherrer

Current Position: Associate Professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: Mutagenic and Kinetic Effects of Various DNA Lesions on DNA Polymerization Catalyzed by Y-Family DNA Polymerases

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Michelle Nauerth

Current Position: Global Regulatory Affairs Associate at IQVIA

Advisor: Charles Brooks

Thesis: Role of the Discoidin Domain receptor proteins in atherosclerosis: Interaction with lipids and collagen

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Ting-fang He

Current Position: Senior Data Scientist at Philips

Advisor: Dongping Zhong

Thesis: Ultrafast dynamics of biological electron transfer over short distances

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Tao Liu

Current Position: Professor, PI at Peking University

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Development Of Cyclic Peptidyl Ligands Through A Combinatorial Library Approach

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Aishwarya Devaraj

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Analytical Development Gene Therapy at Sarepta Therapeutics

Advisor: Kurt Fredrick

Thesis: Molecular Studies of the Fidelity of Translation Elongation

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Mamata Singh

Current Position: Senior Director, CS Program Lead at Exelixis

Advisor: Beth Lee

Thesis: Insights into the Renal Protective Mechanisms of mRNA Binding Protein HuR

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Christopher Henry

Current Position: Project Engineer at ABB

Advisor: Jonathan Godbout

Thesis: Role of Primed Microglia in the Aging Brain in Prolonged Sickness and Depressive Behavior Concomitant with Peripheral Immune Stimulation

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Chhavy Tep-Cullison

Current Position: Regulatory Affairs Specialist at JALEX Medical

Advisor: Sung Yoon

Thesis: Distinct roles of p75 regulation on myelination in the peripheral nervous system and central nervous system

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Daoming Qin

Current Position: Senior Manager, Data Science at Capital One

Advisor: Kurt Fredrick

Thesis: Role of 16S Ribosomal RNA in Translation Initiation

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Mohamed Hessein Hassona

Current Position: Director, Board of Directors at Biopep Solutions Inc.

Advisor: Altaf Wani

Thesis: The Role of Profilin1 Gene in the Development of Cardiovascular Diseases: Insights From Profilin1 Transgenic Mouse Model

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Yu-Yu Liu

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Modulation of Sodium/Iodide Symporter Expression and Function in Thyroid

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Hany Omar

Current Position: Professor at University of Sharjah

Advisor: Ching-Shih Chen

Thesis: Molecular Pharmacology and Preclinical Studies of Novel Small-molecule Targeted Agents for The Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Jessica Brown

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: Kinetic Mechanisms of DNA Polymerases

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Jianxin Sun

Current Position: Senior Director, CMC Management at WuXi Biologics

Advisor: Jeffrey Chalmers

Thesis: Intrinsic Magnetism of Bacillus Spores: Theoretical Studies and Potential Applications

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Huanyu Wang

Current Position: Clinical Associate Professor, Director (Molecular Microbiology) at The Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital

Advisor: Mark Parthun

Thesis: Characterization of N1/N2 Family Histone Chaperones: Hif1p and NASP

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Yanyan Zhang

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Investigation of SH2 Domains: Ligand Binding, Structure and Inhibitor Design

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Ran Zhao

Current Position: Research Data Scientist III at Cleveland Clinic

Advisor: Robert Snapka

Thesis: A study of photodynamic damage to the DNA replication system

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Jason Fowler

Current Position: Associate Professor at Lincoln Memorial University

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: Investigation of Noncanonical DNA Polymerases and Their Mechanisms

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Jinjin Zhang

Current Position: Principal Investigator at Arcus Biosciences

Advisor: Charles Bell

Thesis: Structural Studies of Escherichia coli RecE Exonuclease

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Yi Guo

Current Position: Associate Professor, & Interim Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at University of Florida

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Study of the Structure and Function Relationship of Oncoprotein Gankyrin

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Jason Lavinder

Current Position: Research Professor at The University of Texas at Austin

Advisor: Thomas Magliery

Thesis: Analyzing the Sequence-Stability Landscape of the Four-helix Bundle Protein Rop: Developing High-Throughput Approaches for Combinatorial Biophysics and Protein Engineering

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Wenpeng Zhang

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Michigan

Advisor: Peng Wang

Thesis: Research on Natural Killer T Cell Ligands and the Therapeutic Application

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Peng Wang

Current Position: Associate Director at Lonza

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Studies on E. Coli Membrane Protein Biogenesis: Mechanism of Signal Peptide Peptidase A and the Influence of YiDC Depletion on Cellular Processes

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Yali Zhang

Current Position: Head of USP Development at Sanofi

Advisor: Shang-Tian Yang

Thesis: Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium tyrobutyricum for Production of Biofuels and Bio-based Chemicals

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Huai-Chun Chen

Current Position: Principal Analyst at Commonwealth Informatics, Inc.

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Thesis: Redox and functional characterization of a surface loop spanning residues 536 to 541 in the flavin mononucleotide-binding domain of flavocytochrome P450BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium

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Eileen Workman

Current Position: Director, Translational Research - Neurodegenerative and Neurological Diseases at University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Arthur Burghes

Thesis: Characterization of Mutant SMN and Development of Mutant SMN Transgenic Mice

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Hua Wei

Min Li

Current Position: Senior Director, AI Software Product Management at Illumina

Advisor: Patrick Green

Thesis: Kinetic analysis of Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 gene expression

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Fei Wang

Current Position: Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Advisor: Jiyan Ma

Thesis: Biochemical Studies Of Interactions Between Prion Protein And Lipids

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Wen Yi

Advisor: Peng Wang

Thesis: Chemical Approaches to Understanding Glycobiology

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Yanjun Hou

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Advisor: Michael Ostrowski

Thesis: Analysis Of The Ikkβ/Nf-Κb Signaling Pathway During Embryonic Angiogenesis And Tumorigenesis Of Breast Cancer

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Xin Yin

Current Position: Research Scientist at Veterans Medical Research Foundation

Advisor: Tsonwin Hai

Thesis: The Roles Of Atf3, An Adaptive-Response Gene, In Breast Cancer Development

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Rui Zhang

Current Position: CEO at Xgen Bio

Advisor: John Oberdick

Thesis: Molecular Analysis of Pcp2/L7 3'UTR and Its Putative Binding Proteins: Unr and Vps36

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Frank Ragone

Current Position: Field Medical Director at Pfizer

Advisor: Juan Alfonzo

Thesis: Identification And Characterization Of The A To I Wobble Deaminase From Trypanosoma Brucei

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Jeffrey Voorhees

Current Position: Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, Vice President of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science at Bread Financial

Advisor: Charles Brooks

Thesis: An Examination Of The Kintetic, Structural, And Biological Effects Of Zinc On Lactogenic Cytokine Interaction With The Human Prolactin Receptor

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Jiqiang Ling

Current Position: Associate Professor at University of Maryland

Advisor: Michael Ibba

Thesis: Role of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase in translation quality control

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Dileep Pulukkunat

Current Position: Director of Discovery at Invenra

Advisor: Venkat Gopalan

Thesis: Biochemical studies on archaeal ribonuclease P reveal thematic convergence in protein-facilitated RNA catalysis

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Nathaniel Kreel

Current Position: Technical Support and Sales Manager at Berkeley Yeast

Advisor: Fred Tabita

Thesis: Examination of Mutants that Alter Oxygen Sensitivity and CO₂/O₂ Substrate Specificity of the Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (Rubisco) from Archaeoglobus fulgidus

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Jijun Yuan

Current Position: Chief Scientific Officer at Henlius

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Membrane protein insertion in bacteria by the YidC and Sec pathway

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Laxmi Parsa Venkata

Advisor: Susheela Tridandapani

Thesis: Molecular mechanisms of host cell response to Francisella infection

Yueming Chang

Current Position: Assistant Professor at The University of Conneticut School of Medicine

Advisor: Chien-Liang Lin

Thesis: Investigation of two early events in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -MRNA oxidation and up-regulation of a novel protective factor MSUR1-

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Shanggen Zhou

Current Position: Associate Director, Biostatistics & Statistical Programing at Fortrea

Advisor: James DeWille

Thesis: Post-translational regulation of ccaat/enhancer binding progrein δ(C/EBPδ)by ubiquitin family proteins

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Zhaoxia Zhang

Current Position: Scientific Information Analyst at CAS

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Regulation of sodium iodide symporter expression/function and generation of Nisluc-YFP/WT knock-in mouse

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Leonardo Porchia

Advisor: Matthew Ringel

Thesis: p21-activated kinase: a novel therapeutic target in thyroid cancer

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Gregory Steinbaugh

Current Position: Science and Math Tutor, ACT and SAT at Huntington Learning Center

Advisor: Douglas Pfeiffer

Thesis: Heavy metal Ion transport utilizing natural and synthetic ionophores

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Ling Cen

Advisor: Jiayuh Lin

Thesis: Phosphorylation profiling and targeting of oncogenic signaling proteins in cancer cells

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Guilian Tian

Current Position: Assistant Project Scientist at University of California, Irvine

Advisor: Chien-Liang Lin

Thesis: The molecular mechanism of loss of glial glutamate transporter EAAT2 in neurodegenerative disease

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Xu Xing

Advisor: Charles Bell

Thesis: Structural studies of homologous recombination in bacteria

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Kevin Fiala

Current Position: Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property at Bristol Myers Squibb

Advisor: Zucai Suo

Thesis: A kinetic and biochemical approach to understanding the mechanisms of novel DNA polymerases

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Antara Datta

Current Position: Scientific Director, Clinical Biomarkers at Bristol Myers Squibb

Advisor: Michael Lairmore

Thesis: Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) Accessory Protein p30 Modulates Cell Cycle and DNA Damage Signaling

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Trupti Joshi

Current Position: Consultant at K&S Partners

Advisor: Susheela Tridandapani

Thesis: Molecular analysis of the role of Fcγb, SHIP and PI 3-kinase in macrophage Fcγ receptor function

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Craig Colton 

Advisor: Michael Zhu

Thesis: TRPV3 is a polymodal receptor

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Soo Hyun Kim

Advisor: Brian Kaspar

Thesis: Gene therapy demonstrates that muscle is not a primary target for non-cell autonomous toxicity in familial ALS

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Shoumei Bai

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh

Advisor: Samson Jacob

Thesis: Role of DNA methyltransferase 3B in neuronal cell differentation

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Fehmida Kapadia

Current Position: Fractional Executive at Biomedical Companies

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Analyses of the thymidylate synthase promoter and an RNA helicase required for mRNA export

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Michael Sweeney

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Synthetic combinatorial peptide libraries and their application in decoding biological interactions

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William Boomershine

Current Position: Senior Manager at Alcami Corporation

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Structure and interactions of archaeal RNase P proteins Mth Rpp29 and Pfu Rpp21

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Xinyan Liu

Advisor: Donald Dean

Thesis: Studies of the Manduca sexta cadherin-like receptor binding epitopes of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa toxin and protein engineering of mosquitocidal activity

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Jinge Zhu

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Mechanistic and inhibitory studies of S-ribosylhomocysteinase (LuxS)

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Craig McElroy

Current Position: Vice President of Pharmacokinetics at InfinixBio

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Dynamics and function: mechanistic studies of the gene regulatory proteins TRAP and anti-TRAP

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Feng Yang

Advisor: Daniel Schoenberg

Thesis: Endoribonuclease-mediated mRNA decay involves the selective targeting of PMR1 to polysome-bound substrate

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John Mersfelder

Advisor: C. Russell Hille

Thesis: Mutagenetic studies of trimethylamine dehydrogenase

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Nathan Cobb

Current Position: Group Leader / Senior Scientist at KBI Biopharma, Inc.

Advisor: C. Russell Hille

Thesis: Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of mononuclear molybdenum enzymes of the DMSO reductase family

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Anjli Venkateswaran

Current Position: Drug Development Strategist at Self-employed

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: RET/PTC1-mediated phosphotyrosine signaling pathways involved in thyroid cell transformation

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Jing Peng

Advisor: Daniel Schoenberg

Thesis: Impact of the poly(A) limiting element on mRNA 3' processing efficiency and translation

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Yunnan Fang

Advisor: Gary Means

Thesis: Studies on serum albumin and hemoglobin: the two principal transport proteins in blood

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Manunya Nuth

Current Position: Group Lead Manager, Biology R&D at Biomeme, Inc.

Advisor: James Cowan

Thesis: Mechanism of Fe-S cluster biosynthesis: the [2Fe-2S] IscU as a model scaffold

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Milan Jovanovic

Current Position: Managing Director and Co-Head, Technology and Intellectual Property at JPMorgan Chase

Advisor: Venkat Gopalan

Thesis: Structure-function relationships in the protein subunit of bacterial ribonuclease P

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Amy Stockert

Current Position: Associate Professor at Ohio Northern University

Advisor: C. Russell Hille

Thesis: Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of bovine xanthine oxidase and Rhodobacter capsulatus xanthine dehydrogenase

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Renxiang Chen

Current Position: Associate Director at RNAimmune

Advisor: Louis Mansky

Thesis: Studies of HIV-1 mutagenesis during drug therapy and the molecular determinants of HIV-1 variation

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Xi Ai

Current Position: Principal Scientist at Merck

Advisor: Mark Parthun

Thesis: Biochemical characterization of a hat1p-containing histone acetyltransferase complex

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Cedric Bobst

Current Position: Associate Director, Mass Spectrometry Core Facility at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Advisor: Fred Tabita

Thesis: Biochemical and molecular studies of transketolase from rhodobacter sphaeroides and its inactivation by oxygen

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Weiwei Shi

Advisor: C. Russell Hille

Thesis: Kinetic and spectroscopic characterization of the reductive and oxidative half-reactions of trimethylamine dehydrogenase

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Suganya Yongkiettrakul

Current Position: Senior Researcher at National Science and Technology Development Agency

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Molecular structure and specific interaction of fha domains of saccharomyces cerevisiae rad53

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Joung-Woo Hong

Current Position: Full Professor at Kyung Hee University

Advisor: Lai Wu

Thesis: Characterization of the cellular function and gene structure of large zinc finger protein, ZAS3

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Anne Pryor

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Growth-regulated expression and G0-specific turnover of the mRNA that encodes AH49, a mammalian protein highly related to the mRNA export protein UAP56

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Xiaoqin Lin

Current Position: Senior Director at Shanghai De Novo Pharmatech

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Regulation of sodium iodide symporter expression/function and tissue-targeted gene transfer of sodium iodide symporter

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Tim Eubank

Current Position: Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine

Advisor: Clay Marsh

Thesis: M-CSF and GM-CSF induce human monocytes to express either pro- or anti-angiogenic factors

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Dongyan Qin

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Specificity and structural modeling of FHA domain of CHK2 and a general characterization of FHA domain of caenorhabditis elegans CHK2

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Tracey Murray

Current Position: Professor, Chair at Capital University

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Thesis: Mechanism of flavin cofactor binding to flavodoxins: the role of aromatic residues and the aromatic gate

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Sheref Mansy

Current Position: Professor and Coordinator at Università di Trento

Advisor: James Cowan

Thesis: Structure and function of iron-sulfer cluster biosynthesis proteins and the influence of oxygen ligation

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Brian Hood

Current Position: Director of Proteomics at Gynecologic Cancer Center of Excellence, Women's Health Integrated Research Center

Advisor: C. Russell Hille

Thesis: Kinetic and spectroscopic characterization of members of the sulfite oxidase family of mononuclear molybdenum enzymes

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Umasundari Sivaprasad

Advisor: Charles Brooks

Thesis: The mechanism of lactogen receptor binding by human prolactin

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Minyong Chen

Current Position: Staff Scientist at New England Biolabs

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Deciphering the Role of YidC in Bacterial Membrane Protein Insertion

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Doug Byerly

Advisor: Mark Foster

Thesis: Structure and dynamics of ligand binding to E. coli peptide deformylase

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Xiaokui Mo

Current Position: Associate Professor, Research Scientist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Advisor: George Marzluf

Thesis: Cooperative action of the nit2 and nit4 transcription factors upon gene expression and the identification of cys-13 gene encoding sulfate permease-I in neurospora crassa

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Melinda Butsch

Current Position: Affiliate Professor, Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati

Advisor: Kathleen Boris-Lawrie

Thesis: Control of Retroviral Translation and Relationship to Genomic RNA Packaging

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Murli Narayan

Current Position: Senior Manager, Stability, Verification, and Validation at Siemens Healthcare

Advisor: Patrick Green

Thesis: Biochemical Properties and Regulation of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 2 Rex Protein Function

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Jeanette Richards

Current Position: Founder at Self-employed

Advisor: Robert Brueggemeier

Thesis: Pathways regulating aromatase and cyclooxygenase gene expression in the normal and malignant breast

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Kelly Harrison

Advisor: George Marzluf

Thesis: Characterization of SRE, a gata factor which negatively regulates siderophore synthesis in Neurospora crassa

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Paul O'Maille

Current Position: Program Director, Biocomplexity Sciences at SRI International

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Combinatorial protein engineering by structure-based gene shuffling

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Trevor Petrel

Current Position: Life Sciences Executive at Booz Allen Hamilton

Advisor: Robert Brueggemeier

Thesis: TGF-[beta] and estrogen signaling interactions in breast cancer

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Xulun Zhang

Advisor: John Oberdick

Thesis: Molecular analysis of L7/PCP-2 Messenger RNA and its interacting proteins

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Patrick Bradshaw

Current Position: Associate Professor at East Tennessee University

Advisor: Douglas Pfeiffer

Thesis: Permeability properties of the yeast inner mitochondrial membrane

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Haidong Gu

Current Position: Associate Professor at Wayne State University

Advisor: Daniel Schoenberg

Thesis: A novel regulatory mechanism for Nuclear Polyadenylation : PLEs and PLEBPs

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Kwon-Yul Ryu

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Regulatory mechanisms of the sodium iodide symporter

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Karen Duda

Current Position: Instructor at Columbus State Community College

Advisor: Charles Brooks

Thesis: Elucidation of a human growth hormone motif critical for lactogenic activity and the role of coformational change in receptor activation

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Donald Black

Advisor: Ruth Altschuld

Thesis: Modulation of the calcium binding properties of calmodulin via amino acid replacement and target interaction

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Robbie Walczak

Current Position: Instrumentation Technical and Application Support Specialist at Mettler-Toledo International, Inc

Advisor: Robert Brueggemeier

Thesis: Analyses of antibiotic biosyntheses in Streptomyces spp. : the molecular biology of nonactin biosynthesis and the novel biochemistry of daunorubicin biosynthesis

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Holly Coughenour

Advisor: Robert Brueggemeier

Thesis: Estrogen-regulated gene expression in breast cancer

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Melanie Beebe

Advisor: Pravin Kaumaya

Thesis: Peptide vaccine development for the human T-Lymphotropic virus type 1 : elicitation of humoral immune responses

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Kirk Beebe

Current Position: Chief Scientific Officer at GeneCentric Therapeutics Inc.

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Substrate recognition through modular domains : protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 and tail-specific protease (TSP)

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Amy Allen

Advisor: Tsonwin Hai

Thesis: Ectopic expression of ATF3 inhibits Glucose Homeostasis and Pancreatic Endocrine Cell Development

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Tara Lynne Buckwalter

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Phosphotyrosine-mediated signal transduction pathways essential for RET/PTC1-induced tumor formation

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Hua Liao

Current Position: Vice President, Head of Pharmacology and Biochemistry at Orange Grove Bio

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Structure and function of FHA2 domain of RAD53, a new Phosphopeptide binding domain and mechanistic studies of Phosphatidylinositol-specific Phospholipase C

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Susan Cotman

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

Advisor: Gregory Cole

Thesis: Characterization of Agrin's interactions with the extracellular matrix : implications for a role in the developing and mature central nervous system, and in Alzheimer's disease brain

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James Smith

Advisor: Michael Ostrowski

Thesis: RAS dependent regulation of ETS-2

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Thomas Conrads

Current Position: Director of Women's Health Research at Inova Fairfax Hospital

Advisor: C. Russell Hille

Thesis: Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of mononuclear Molybdenum Enzymes

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Kristi Rupert

Current Position: Principal at Fish & Richardson P.C.

Advisor: Chack-Yung Yu

Thesis: The human complement component C4 and the RP-C4-CYP21-TNX (RCCX) modules of the major histocompatibility complex in Pediatric Rehumatic Diseases

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Yaoming Wei

Current Position: Director of Pharmacy at Saint Anthony Hospital

Advisor: Dehua Pei

Thesis: Peptide deformylase : characterization and antibacterial drug design

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Curt Wolfgang

Current Position: Global Asset Lead Executive Director at SpringWorks Therapeutics

Advisor: Tsonwin Hai

Thesis: A study of the biological function of ATF3 : stress inducibility, target promoters and functional consequences

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Judith Ochrietor

Current Position: Professor, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at University of North Florida

Advisor: Richard Mortensen

Thesis: Expression of mouse pentraxin genes during inflammation

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John O'Rourke

Current Position: President,  CEO at BennuBio, Inc.

Advisor: James DeWille

Thesis: Expression, function and transcriptional regulation of the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein delta (C/EBP(delta)) in mouse mammary epithelial cells

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Mary Weiler

Current Position: Retired Nutrition Scientist at Abbott

Advisor: Gregory Cole

Thesis: Identification of the SH3 binding domains and the in vitro map kinase phosphorylation sites of CR16, a novel proline-rich protein expressed in Rat Brain neurons

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Christopher Schaeffer

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Protein engineering : preliminary characterization and further development of a new restriction endonculease, splase

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Bradley Baker

Current Position: Principal Scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Advisor: Chack-Yung Yu

Thesis: The evolutionarily related major histocompatibility complex and CD1 : evolution of an endogenous retrovirus responsible for a polymorphism in human C4 and the biochemical characterizations of CD1A and E

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Kempton Horken

Advisor: Fred Tabita

Thesis: Development of new prokaryotic systems for ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) structure/function and assembly studies

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Feng Bian

Advisor: John Oberdick

Thesis: Molecular analysis of subcellular mRNA localization in cerebellar purkinje cells

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Francis Peterson

Advisor: Charles Brooks

Thesis: Identification of motifs associated with the lactogenic and somatotropic actions of human growth hormone

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Yilei Qian

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Indiana University South Bend

Advisor: Fred Tabita

Thesis: Coordinate regulation of carbon fixation and nitrogen assimilation in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides

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Donna-Beth Woodbine

Advisor: Pravin KaumayaThesis: Biological effects of anti-peptide antibodies against the her-2/neu receptor tyrosine kinase : implications for therapy of human breast cancer

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Guosheng Liang

Current Position: Professor of Molecular Genetics at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Advisor: Tsonwin Hai

Thesis: Functional analyses of hatf4 and regulation of atf3 expression

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Janet Russell

Current Position: Project Manager at Ohio's University Consortium for Child and Adult Services

Advisor: Patrick Ward

Thesis: Peptidases in skeletal muscle regulate local concentrations of angiotensins, kinins, and neurokinins

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Bing Chen

Current Position: Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Advisor: Alan Lambowitz

Thesis: Gene expression in Neurospora crassa mitochondria: Mitochondrial RNA polymerase and Mauriceville mitochondrial reverse transcriptase

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Shunhua Xing

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Molecular characterization of RET activation

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Qiang Tong

Current Position: Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Molecular mechanism of the activation of the ret/ptc1 oncogene in papillary thyroid carcinomas and characterization of the promoter of the rat sodium iodide symporter gene

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Ronald Phillips

Advisor: Ruth Altschuld

Thesis: The role of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in congestive heart failure

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Lingyu Zhu

Current Position: Vice President, Operations at Amgen-Betta Joint Venture

Advisor: Long-Sheng Chang

Thesis: Transcriptional regulation of the gene for the human retinoblastoma protein-related p107 protein

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Roopa Biswas

Current Position: Professor at Uniformed Services University

Advisor: Muttaiya Sundaralingam

Thesis: Crystal structures of alternating RNA oligomers: Tandem G-U wobble pairs

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Anne Quinn

Advisor: Robert Brueggemeier

Thesis: Aromatase expression and enzyme activity in breast cancer

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Hong-guang Pan

Current Position: Senior Scientist at SuperArray Bioscience

Advisor: George Marzluf

Thesis: Function of the positive-acting NIT2 and negative-acting NMR proteins in mediating nitrogen regulation in Neurospora

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Chi-ho Mak

Advisor: Lai Wu

Thesis: Characterization of a recombination signal sequence and kappa-B motif DNA binding protein, KRc

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Patricia Smanik

Current Position: Senior Medical Writer at Self-employed

Advisor: Sissy Jhiang

Thesis: Investigations of the ret/PTC oncogene and the loss of iodide uptake activity in thyroid cancer

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Suzette Riddle

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Purification and characterization of two recombinant proteins: Annexin III and phosphatidyl inositol specific-phospholipase C

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Lingyun Zhao

Advisor: Long-Sheng Chang

Thesis: The human POLD1 gene: Analysis of the genomic structure, promoter, and cell-cycle regulation

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Wenjin Guo

Advisor: Pappachan Kolattukudy

Thesis: Studies of pectate lyases from fusarium solani F. SP. PISI as virulence factors in fungal disease

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Jinling Xie

Advisor: Anthony Young

Thesis: Transcriptional control via multiple promoters in the cns: glial filamin and neuronal nitric oxide synthase gene expression

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Benjamin Chen

Advisor: Tsonwin Hai

Thesis: The regulation of transcription by atf3

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Sundaresan Venkatachalam

Current Position: Chief of Preclinical Therapeutics Grants Branch at National Cancer Institute

Advisor: Altaf Wani

Thesis: Cellular responses to DNA damage: DNA repair, p53 induction, cell cycle arrest and apoptosis upon treatment of human cells with the carcinogen, anti-benzo(a)pyrene diol epoxide

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Muriel Liberto

Current Position: Partner at KDW Firm PLLC

Advisor: Robert Brueggemeier

Thesis: ERBB-2 expression in hormonal carcinogenesis and studies of estrogen homologs

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Xiaohong Liu

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Structure-function relationship studies of bovine pancreatic phospholipase a2 and chicken muscle adenylate kinase

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Christopher Snyder

Current Position: Chief Information Officer at Binsky

Advisor: J. David Johnson

Thesis: Effects of Target Protein Peptides and MLCK on Calcium Exchange With Calmodulin and the Disulfide-Bond-Locked Mutant Calmodulin's

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Yunhi Choi

Advisor: John Robinson

Thesis: Mitosis-Specific Phosphorylation of MAP4 and Characterization of The MPM-2 Epitope

Hongxin Zhu

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Structure-Function Studies of Bovine Pancreatic Phospholipase A2: The Roles of N-Terminal Residues in The Interfacial Activation and The Roles of Disulfide Bonds in The Structure, Stability, and Catalytic Function Cloning, Expression, Purification

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Yunbo Ke

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, School of Medicine

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Regulation by Introns: Splicing is Required for Normal Growth- Stimulated Expression of the Mouse Thymidylate Synthase Gene

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Baohua Huang

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Protein engineering: from structure-function relation studies of phospholipase A2 to rational design of a novel restriction endonuclease

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Douglas Tippin

Advisor: Muttaiya Sundaralingam

Thesis: Crystallographic Investigation of A-DNA Conformations: The Effect of Hydration, Methylation and Spermine Binding

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George Chacko

Advisor: Clark Anderson

Thesis: Studies on the activation of human platelets by clustering of the Fc receptor for IgG

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John Ash

Current Position: Professor, Vice Chair of Ophthalmology and Director of Research at University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Expression of the mouse thymidylate synthase gene is regulated through synergy between the essential promoter and introns

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Young-Soo Hong

Current Position: Scientist at Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Advisor: David Ives

Thesis: Effects of site-directed mutagenesis on the kinetic and allosteric behavior of deoxyadenosine kinase/deoxyguanosine kinase from lactobacillus acidophilus R-26

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Alissa Winnard

Advisor: Arthur Burghes

Thesis: Exception patients in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy

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Qingbin Guo

Advisor: Alan Lambowitz

Thesis: RNA splicing in neurospora mitochondria : the interaction of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase and group I introns

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Larry Helms

Current Position: Supervisory Review Quality Assurance Specialist at USPTO

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Thesis: The flavodoxins from the Desulfovibrio genus : cloning, characterization, and site-directed mutagenesis

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Royce Mohan

Current Position: Professor at University of Connecticut, Health Center

Advisor: Pappachan Kolattukudy

Thesis: Regulation of expression of a highly anionic peroxidase gene by cis-elements and by fungal interaction

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Cheng Hwang

Advisor: Pappachan Kolattukudy

Thesis: Molecular cloning and sequencing of thioesterase B cDNA and hormonal induction of this thioesterase in the uropygial gland of mallard duck, and molecular cloning of genes whose expression are triggered uniquely during appressorium formation

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Yng-Ju Hsieh

Advisor: Pappachan Kolattukudy

Thesis: Cloning, characterization and disruption of malonyl-coa decarboxylase gene from Saccharopolyspora erythraea and heterologous expression in E. coli

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Bo Hu

Current Position: Research Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Advisor: Ruth Altschuld

Thesis: Mechanisms of the hormonal and metabolic control of AMP deaminase in adult rat cardiac myocytes

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Shiyuan Cheng

Current Position: Professor at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Membrane assembly studies of subunit h : leader peptidase and m13 procoat proteins in Escherichia coli

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Ruwen Jou

Current Position: Director at Tuberculosis Research Center, Taiwan CDC

Advisor: James Cowan

Thesis: Metallobiochemistry of ribonuclease H and mannuron C-5 epimerase

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Steven Runge

Current Position: Professor at University of Central Arkansas

Advisor: Dorothy Schumm

Thesis: Characterization of an oncofetal protein (OFP) and cloning of its cDNA

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Michael Dennis

Advisor: Pappachan Kolattukudy

Thesis: Hydrocarbon biosynthesis : purification and characterization of aldehyde decarbonylase from Botryococcus braunii

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David Myszka

Current Position: Director at Biosensor Tools LLC

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Thesis: Photoaffinity labeling of warfarin binding proteins

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Mahinur Akkaya

Current Position: Professor at Dalian University of Technology

Advisor: Caroline Breitenberger

Thesis: Purification, characterization and light regulation of pea chloroplast protein synthesis elongation factor G : identification and partial sequencing of its gene

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Jong-In Lee

Advisor: Ross Dalbey

Thesis: Membrane assembly and function of Escherichia coli leader peptidase

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Yue Li

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Mechanisms of the mouse thymidylate synthase gene regulation : identification of the regulatory elements

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Honggao Yan

Current Position: Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Mechanism of adenylate kinase : a site-directed mutagenesis and nuclear magnetic resonance study

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Mesut Eren

Current Position: Research Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Thesis: The design, chemical synthesis, expression in E. coli and site- directed mutagenesis of an artificial gene coding for the flavodoxin from Clostridium mp.

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Haichao Zhang

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Mouse thymidylate synthase : high level expression and protein engineering

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Dawei Li

Advisor: Lee Johnson

Thesis: Isolation and characterization of the mouse thymidylate synthase gene and its pseudogene

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Michael De Felippis

Current Position: Senior Research Fellow at Eli Lilly and Company

Advisor: Michael Klapper

Thesis: The redox potentials of the tyrosine and tryptophan radicals and long-range electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in peptides

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Hakjoo Lee

Advisor: George Marzluf

Thesis: Nitrogen regulation of the purine catabolic genes in Neurospora crassa

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Harry Sarvis

Current Position: Extension Site Coordinator at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Physical studies of thiophospholipids using Fourier transform infared spectroscopy

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Anthony Timerman

Current Position: Professor at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Advisor: A. Merola

Thesis: Biochemical and morphological response of isolated adult rat myocytes to abrupt glutathione depletion

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Ann Kwiatkowski

Current Position: Competitive Intelligence Director (Retired) at GSK

Advisor: Marita King

Thesis: Structure, function, and regulation of type II calmodulin dependent protein kinase

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David Husman

Current Position: Principal Consultant at Eliquent Life Sciences

Advisor: Robert Mayer

Thesis: Removal of detergents from dextransucrase and the effects they have on enzyme activity and structure

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