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Our Postdoctoral Trainees

  • Imrat

    Postdoctoral Associate – Cifuentes Lab

    miRNA, Molecular biology, zebrafish biology and Bioinformatics

  • Naiha Ahmad

    Postdoctoral Associate – Saeed Lab

  • Jose Andres Alepuz Guillen

    Postdoctoral Associate – Harris Lab

    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Prion diseases
    Neurodegenerative Diseases
    Primary Neuronal Cultures
    iPSCs

  • Md Fakhrul Azad

    Postdoctoral Researcher-Lau Lab

    Small RNAs and gene silencing, Transposons and RNA splicing, human aging and neurodegeneration.

  • Allen Caobi

    Postdoctoral Associate – Saeed Lab

  • Da-Yuan Chen

    Postdoctoral Associate – Saeed Lab

    Virology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology

  • Jordan Langston

    Postdoctoral Associate – Zaia Lab

    Mass spectrometry, Proteomics, Peptide synthesis, Kidney disease

  • Jua Lee

    Postdoctoral Associate – Costello Lab

  • Elias Gizaw Mernie

    Postdoctoral Associate – Zaia Lab

    Glycobiology
    Glycosaminoglycans
    Mass Spectrometry
    Nanomaterials

  • Sahana Mitra

    Senior Postdoctoral Fellow – Perissi Lab

    Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), Integrated stress signaling (ISR), Mitochondrial retrograde stress signaling, Chromatin remodeling, mito-nuclear contact sites, stress-induced PARylation and neuron development

  • Jong-Chang Park

    Postdoctoral Associate – Garcia-Marcos Lab

  • Clementine Eva Philibert

    Postdoctoral Associate – Mikel Garcia-Marcos Lab

    G protein signaling

  • Gian Paolo Sepulveda

    Postdoctoral Associate – Grishok Lab

    c-Myc regulation
    Transcriptional pausing/elongation

  • Javier Serrato

    Postdoctoral Associate – Saeed Lab

  • Rohit Sharma

    Postdoctoral Associate – Lau Lab

    Arbovirus, RNAi, Applied Entomology

  • Chia-Ming Su

    Postdoctoral Associate – Saeed Lab

    Virology, Immunology, Innate immunity

  • Alan Wacquiez

    Postdoctoral Associate – Saeed Lab

  • Reito Watanabe

    Postdoctoral Associate – Blower Lab

    Mitosis, Centromere, RNA-Protein interaction

  • Chaoshuang Xia

    Postdoctoral Associate – Costello Lab

    Development and application of mass spectral methods for determining the structures and functions of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates

  • Jingyi Zhao

    Postdoctoral Associate – Garcia-Marcos Lab

    GPCR, G protein, Cancer cell progression

News

Congratulations to Stefan Isaac; one of the selected 2025 Toffler Scholars!

October 7, 2025

Congratulations to Stefan Isaac who was one of the selected 2025 Toffler...

New Research from the Layne Lab: mechanisms of adipose tissue fibrosis

August 6, 2025

A new study from the Layne laboratory identified a function for the...

New news out of the Saeed Lab: Researchers Discover Protein Necessary for SARS-CoV-2 to Evade the Body’s Defenses

June 17, 2025

Researchers Discover Protein Necessary for SARS-CoV-2 to Evade the Body’s Defenses |...

Calendar

  • 27OctBiochemistry & Cell Biology Seminar Series: Tarik Haydar, Ph.D. - “Mechanisms of early cortical development impacting the etiology of intellectual disabilities”
  • 10NovBiochemistry & Cell Biology Seminar Series: Jessalyn Ubellacker, Ph.D., M.D., M.P.H. - “Inducing lipid peroxidation in lymph nodes to inhibit metastasis”
  • 17NovBiochemistry & Cell Biology Seminar Series: Richard I. Gregory, Ph.D. - “Oncogenic tRNAs and codon-biased mRNA translation in cancer”
  • 20NovIn-House Research Seminar : Cheyanne Frosti, Ph.D. student (Layne Lab) & Sahana Mitra, Postdoctoral Associate (Perissi Lab)

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