Recent Graduates
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences
Dr. Kaustubh Sinha (2009)
NMR Studies of Human Detoxification Enzymes
Advisor: Gordon Rule
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rule Laboratory
Dr. Sandra Zimmerman (2009)
Regulation of Cell Shape by the Wnt Pathway
Advisor: Brooke McCartney
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon, Postdoctoral Fellowship, McCartney Laboratory
Dr. Rebecca Webb (2009)
Cytoskeletal Organization in the Drosophila Syncytical Embryo
Advisor: Brooke McCartney
Postgraduate Plans: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr. Jingyu Zhang (2008)
Physical and Functional Interactions Among Factors Required for One Step in Assembly of 60S Ribosomal Subunits in Yeast
Advisor: John Woolford
Postgraduate Plans: GE Global Research Center, Cell Biologist
Dr. Krishnan Padmanabhan (2008)
The Role of Spontaneous Retinal Activity in the Anatomical Development of Early Visual Circuits
Advisor: Justin Crowley
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Lan Tang (2008)
Protein-protein Interactions and their Functions in Ribosome Biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Advisor: John Woolford
Postgraduate Plans: Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Tamara Berdyyeva (2008)
Neuronal Representation of Ordinal Position in Monkey Frontal Cortex
Advisor: Carl Olson
Postgraduate Plans: Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Vikrant Kapoor (2008)
Timing and Reliability of Activity in the Main Olfactory Bulb
Advisor: Nathan Urban
Postgraduate Plans: Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
Postgraduation Plans: Johns Hopkins University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
Postgraduation Plans: Carnegie Mellon University, Special Faculty, Lecturer
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
Postgraduation Plans: Princeton University, Postdoctoral Research Associate
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
Postgraduation Plans: Cold Spring Harbor, Postdoctoral Fellowshiip
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
Postgraduation Plans: Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine
Dr. Mamta Puri (2005)
Proteomics and Regulation of Ventral Furrow Formation in Drosophila melanogaster
Advisor: Jonathan S. Minden
Postgraduation Plans: Northwestern University, Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Julie A. Jadlowiec (2005)
Investigation of Phosphophoryn Signaling Mechanisms as a Model for ECM-directed Morphogenesis of Mineralized Tissue
Advisor: Phil G. Campbell
Postgraduation Plans: CMU-MBIC Administration, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Supriya Kumar (2005)
Regulation of Alternative Splicing in Drosophila melanogaster
Advisor: A. Javier López
Postgraduation Plans: University of Chicago, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Ayse Celil (2005)
Investigation of Signaling Pathways that Mediate Osterix Expression During Osteoblast Lineage
Advisor: Phil G. Campbell
Postdoctoral Plans: Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
Postgraduation Plans: National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Pathumthani, Thailand, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Brian T. Sage (2004)
Factors Influencing Gene Silencing by Heterochromatin in trans
Advisor: Amy K. Csink
Postgraduation Plans: Brown University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
Postgraduation Plans: University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Manojkumar A. Puthenveedu (2004)
The Role of Vesicle Proteins in Biogenesis and Mitotitc Disassembly of the Golgi Apparatus
Advisor: Adam D. Linstedt
Postgraduation Plans: University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
Dr. Grace Si-Yan Choy (2003)
Modeling and Characterization of Single Chain Variable Fragments (ScFv) Specific for an Isocyanage-based Protein Conjugate
Advisor: William Brown
Postgraduation Plans: University of Texas, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Edward Horsey (2003)
Isolation and Characterizattion of Mammalian Histone Deacetylases
Dr. James McKay (2003)
Identification and Characterization of helmsman, a Gene Involved in the Development of the Embryoic Tracheal System and the Adult Visual System in Drosophhila melanogaster
Advisor: J. Pollock
Dr. Surya Viswanathan (2003)
Proteome Variation in Yeast: Response To Altered Gene Dosage
Advisor: Jonathan S. Minden
Dr. Heather Elizabeth Weitzel (2003)
Beta-catenin: Analysis of Protein Turnover and Regulation by Glycogen Synthesis Kinase-3b
Advisor: Charles A. Ettensohn
Dr. Pamela (Antunez-De-Mayolo) Bush (2002)
Proteins and RNAs that Interact with Saccharomyces cerevisiae rpS14
Advisor: John L. Woolford
Postgraduation Plans: Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, Project Assistant
Dr. Amy Jean Mehta (2002)
Investigation into Golgi Biogenesis: Identification of Targeting Determinants in the Golgi Protein Giantin and Characterization of the Disassembled Mitotic Golgi
Advisor: Adam D. Linstedt
Dr. Jaime Lee Mergliano (2002)
Investigations of the Development of the Embryonic Brain and Caspase-Independent Cell Engulfment in Drosophila melanogaster
Advisor: Jonathan S. Minden
Dr. Kristina Jackson Behan (2001)
Double Tiered Interactions between Lozenge and Ets Factors in Drosphila Eye Development
Advisor: J Pollock
Postgraduation Plans: University of Florida, Assistant Professor
Dr. Chung-Ke Chang (2001)
Characterization of beta131 Mutants of Hemoglobin: Effects on Hemoglobin Structure and Function
Advisor: Chien Ho
Dr. Hak J. Chang (2001)
Role of the Unfolded Protein Response Pathway in Phospholipid Biosynthesis and Membrane Trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Advisor: Susan Henry
Postgraduation Plans: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Law Student
Dr. Stephen Andrew Jesch (2001)
Investigation of the Mitotic Disassembly Pathway of the Mammalian Golgi Complex
Advisor: Adam D. Linstedt
Postgraduation Plans: Cornell University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. E. John Meharra (2001)
Analysis of the Molecular Defect in the End6 Mutant of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
Advisor: Robert F. Murphy
Dr. Yuh-Hai Wang (2001)
Calmodulin Activation in Migrating and Dividing Fibroblasts
Advisor: L. Taylor
Dr. James M. Burnette, III (2000)
Recursive Splicing in Large Introns and Regulation of a Regenerated 5' Splicing Site
Advisor: A. Javier López
Postgraduation Plans: University of Virginia, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Monica Ruiz-Noriega (2000)
Signal Transduction and Phospholipid Biosynthesis in yeast: The Role of the Glucose Response Pathway
Advisor: Henry S.
Dr. Andrea Jane Wiethoff (2000)
Idnetification of Mucosal Injury in the Murine Nasal Airways by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Advisor: William Brown
