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Graduate Students

  • Kaitlyn Alimenti

    PhD Student – Blower Lab

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

  • Adaline Brekker

    PhD Student – Lyons Lab

  • 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

  • Remi Janicot

    PhD Student – Garcia-Marcos Lab

    G-protein signaling

  • Ryan Johnston

    PhD Student – Lyons Lab

  • Konstantinos Kontodimas

    PhD Student – Varelas Lab

    Lung injury repair

  • 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 Newalaniec

    PhD Student – Grishok Lab

  • Isabel Orbe

    PhD Student – Harris Lab

    Prion Disease, Cell Biology of Strain Susceptibility, Neurodegenerative Diseases

  • Stephen Ross

    PhD Student – Cifuentes Lab

    Discrete mechanisms of viral replication and transcription (Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2). Viral transcription kinetics: rates of viral mRNA synthesis and decay. Mechanisms of viral post-transcriptional regulation and modification.

  • Owen Sanborn

    PhD Student – Cifuentes Lab

    RNA-Protein Interactions, microRNA

  • Emily Sparago

    PhD Student – Blower Lab

  • Anthony Spinella

    MD/PhD Student – Varelas Lab

    Head and neck cancer biology

  • Ashley Tai

    PhD Student – Zaia Lab

    Mass spectrometry
    Glycoproteomics

  • Alexander Tavares

    PhD Student—Layne Lab

    mechanisms of fibrosis
    vascular progenitor cell fate

  • Rachael Thomas

    PhD Student – Blower Lab

    X chromosome inactivation
    Epigenetics
    Cell Cycle

  • Samantha Tolton

    PhD Student – Harris Lab

    Neurodegeneration, prion diseases, cell metabolism

  • Sarah Valente

    PhD Student – Varelas Lab

    Cancer Biology

  • Crystal Vejar

    MS Student—Layne Lab

  • Annie Wen

    PhD Student – Cifuentes Lab

    Biochemistry, Virology

  • Crystal Zhu

    MD/PhD Student – Varelas Lab

    Early Lung Cancer Development
    Cancer Immune Evasion
    Chemoprevention Strategies

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
72 E. Concord St.
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: 617-358-4280

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