Alumni and Careers

Recent Graduates

From left to right: Arun Krishnaswamy, Narayanan Raghupathy, Parul Nisha, Yanhua Hu and Juchang Hua

The Department of Biological Sciences is very proud of its recent graduates:

Doctor of Philosophy

Dr. Timothy Feinstein (2008)
A New Model For Feedback Between Ribbon Structure of the Golgi Apparatus and Mitotic Cell Cycle Progression
Advisor: Adam Linstedt
Postgraduate Plans: University of Pittsburgh, Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Anupam Goyal (2008)
Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Drosophila Ventral Furrow Formation
Advisor: Jonathan Minden
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business, MBA Program

Dr. Yusong Guo (2008)
Role of Vesicle Coat Machinery in Golgi Homeostasis and Organization
Advisor: Adam Linstedt

Dr. Mangala Srinivas (2007)
Development and Application of a 19F Platform for in vivo MRI: Tracking and Quantification of T-cells in Murine Disease Models and the Effect of Immunotherapy on T-cell Tracking
Advisor: Eric Ahrens
Postgraduate Plans: Nijegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Tiequan Zhang (2007)
Investigation of Capsid Self-Assembly Using Discrete-Event Simulation
Advisor: Russell Schwartz

Dr. Roger Clem (2007)
Sensory-driven Plasticity in Neocortical Circuits
Advisor: Alison Barth

Dr. Parul Nisha (2007)
Analysis of the Chromatin Structure and Modifiers of Heterochromatic Gene Silencing in trans
Advisor: Amy Csink

Dr. Arun Krishnaswamy (2007)
An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach to Chemical Shift Prediction from Protein Structure
Advisors: Chistopher Langmead, Gordon Rule

Dr. Allison Marciszyn (2007)
Cytoskeletal and Motility Effects of a Photoactivatable GTPase Signaling Inhibitor in Cultured Mammalian Cells
Advisor: Frederick Lanni

Dr. Yanhua Hu (2007)
Automated Analysis of Protein Subcellular Locations in Time Series Images
Advisor: Robert F. Murphy

Dr. Juchang Hua (2007)
Image Databases for Automated Determination of Protein Subcellular Locations
Advisor: Robert F. Murphy

Dr. Narayanan Raghupathy (2007)
Duplication in the Evolution of Insulin Signaling and Novel Methods for Gene Cluster Statistics
Advisor: Dannie Durand

Dr. Nan Song (2006)
Homology Identification for Multidomain Proteins
Advisor: Dannie Durand

Dr. Christine Wang (2006)
Characterization of Microbial Communities Associated with Anaerobic Reductive Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in River Sediments
Advisor: William E. Brown

Dr. Tiffany Miles Randall (2005)
Ytm1p, a Scaffolding Protein Necessary for the Assembly of 60S Ribosomal Subunits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Advisor: John L. Woolford

Dr. Rajika Thakar (2005) Nuclear Organization and the Dynamics of Chromatin Movement in Drosophila Advisor: Amy K. Csink Dr. Rajalaxmi Natarajan (2005) A Cycling cis Golgi Protein Mediates Early Endosome-to-TGN Traffic Advisor: Adam D. Linstedt Dr. Xiang Chen (2005) Automated Interpretation of Protein Subcellular Location Patterns in 3D Images Advisor: Robert F. Murphy Dr. Mamta Puri (2005) Proteomics and Regulation of Ventral Furrow Formation in Drosophila melanogaster Advisor: Jonathan S. Minden

From left to right: Shoba Subramanian, Ayse Celil, Emily Stark (Coordinator of Graduate Programs), Ka Young-An and Peter Zullo

Dr. Julie A. Jadlowiec (2005)
Investigation of Phosphophoryn Signaling Mechanisms as a Model for ECM-directed Morphogenesis of Mineralized Tissue
Advisor: Phil G. Campbell

Dr. Supriya Kumar (2005)
Regulation of Alternative Splicing in Drosophila melanogaster
Advisor: A. Javier López

Dr. Ayse Celil (2005)
Investigation of Signaling Pathways that Mediate Osterix Expression During Osteoblast Lineage
Advisor: Phil G. Campbell

Dr. Shoba Subramanian (2005)
Analysis of Protein Factors Involved in Vacuole Biogenesis and Protein Folding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Advisor: Elizabeth W. Jones

Dr. Piyanun Harnpicharnchai (2004)
Dynamics of Ribosome Assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Advisor: John L. Woolford

Dr. Brian T. Sage (2004)
Factors Influencing Gene Silencing by Heterochromatin in trans
Advisor: Amy K. Csink

Dr. Kai Huang (2004)
Data Mining Approaches for Interpreting Protein Subcellular Location Patterns in Fluorescence Microscope Images
Advisor: Robert F. Murphy

Dr. Sapna Puri (2004)
Biogenesis of the Mammalian Golgi, a Structurally Complex yet Dynamic Membrane Organelle
Advisor: Adam D. Linstedt

Dr. Manojkumar A. Puthenveedu (2004)
The Role of Vesicle Proteins in Biogenesis and Mitotitc Disassembly of the Golgi Apparatus
Advisor: Adam D. Linstedt

Dr. G. Steven Vanni (2004)
Novel Approaches to Localization of Cytoskeletal Proteins and Quantification of Cell-Driven Mechanics in 3D Model Tissue Constructs
Advisor: Frederick Lanni

Dr. Yi-Ping Zhan (2004)
NMR, Studies of Human Glutathione Transferase A1-1 and sar, a Small Antisense RNA
Advisor: Gordon Rule

Master of Science in Biological Sciences

Margarida Nunes Ferreira Silva Coelho Rodrigues dos Anjos (2007)

Christopher Fried (2007)

Arun Krishnaswamy (2006)

Yanhua Hu (2006)

Jeong-Ah Kwon (2005)

Nicole R. Brandon (2004)

Master of Science in Computational Biology

Dmitriy Patek (2008)

Yongjin Park (2008)
Gene Expression Analyses by Statistical Learning Methods
Advisor: Russell S. Schwartz

Aaron Huttner (2007)

Robert Montgomery (2007)

Amina Abdullah (2006)

Bormi Shin (2006)

Jacob Joseph (2006)

Aly Khan (2006)

Prateek Kumar (2006)

Swapnil Upganlawar (2006)

Akshay Lalla (2005)

Peter M. Zullo (2005)

Ka-Young An (2005)

Alexander Mandel (2004)

Neil Christopher (2004)

Kiran Raju Penumacha (2004)

Joyce Wei (2004)

Edward Roques (2001)

Careers

Career paths of both Ph.D. and M.S. graduates of the Department of Biological Sciences have led to research, teaching, and administrative positions at renowned institutions. Graduates are also leaders in industry and government.