Graduate Students

Kaitlyn Alimenti

PhD Student – Blower Lab

Mitosis, Long non-coding RNAs, Chromatin Structure, RNA:Chromatin Interactions

Elizaveta Berson

PhD Student — Perissi & Isaac Labs

anterograde and retrograde signaling, mitochondrial DNA

Mollie Adaline Brekker

PhD Student – Lyons Lab

Non-canonical Translation Initiation, Protein Modifications and Functions, Cancer Biology

Alec Candib

PhD Student – Zaia Lab

Bioinformatics

Scott Connelly

PhD Student – Layne Lab

Adipose tissue fibrosis, adipose tissue biology

Cheyanne Frosti

PhD Student – Layne Lab

Adipose tissue fibrosis, Intracellular adipose signaling

Jean Gatdula

PhD Student- Harris Lab

Prion Diseases/ Neurodegenerative Diseases

Autumn Grimins

PhD Student – Lyons Lab

Virology, eukaryotic translation initiation, non-canonical translation initiation mechanisms

Ryan Johnston

PhD Student – Lyons Lab

Konstantinos Kontodimas

PhD Student – Varelas Lab

Lung injury repair

Keyu (Chloe) Li

PhD Student — Perissi Lab

Thomas Liontis

PhD Student – Grishok Lab

Aging, Genetics, Epigenetics, Bioinformatics

Nadia Mirza-Romero

PhD Student – Harris Lab

Non-neuronal cell involvement in prion disease, astrocytes, prion strain specificity

Karol Nawalaniec

PhD Student – Grishok Lab

Isabel Orbe

PhD Student – Harris Lab

Prion Disease, Cell Biology of Strain Susceptibility, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Jake Rusnack

PhD Student – Isaac Lab

Mitochondrial Genome Regulation, Stem Cell Biology, Aging

Owen Sanborn

PhD Student – Cifuentes Lab

RNA-Protein Interactions, microRNA

Linnea Saunders

PhD Student – Harris Lab

Neurodegeneration, prion diseases

Emily Sparago

PhD Student – Blower Lab

Ashley Tai

PhD Student – Zaia Lab

Mass spectrometry
Glycoproteomics

Rachael Thomas

PhD Student – Blower Lab

X chromosome inactivation
Epigenetics
Cell Cycle

Vladimir Tkachev

Ph.D Student –
Garcia-Macros Lab (Pharm)

G-protein biosensors

Samantha Tolton

PhD Student – Harris Lab

Neurodegeneration, prion diseases, cell metabolism

Sarah Valente

PhD Student – Varelas Lab

Cancer Biology

Annie Wen

PhD Student – Cifuentes Lab

Biochemistry, Virology

Abigail Wilcox

Ph.D. Student –
Garcia-Marcos Lab

G protein signaling, cardiomyocytes

Saylor Williams

PhD Student – Isaac Lab

Gene regulation , Mitochondrial dynamics, Rare diseases

Diana Yeritsyan

PhD Student – Layne lab

Crystal Zhu

MD/PhD Student – Varelas Lab

Early Lung Cancer Development
Cancer Immune Evasion
Chemoprevention Strategies