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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

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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