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Current Students
Elshaimaa Ali
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Menusha Arumugam
Mentor: Matt Steensma, M.D.
Thesis: TME impact on epithelial tumorigenesis in NF1-deficient breast cancer.
Alix Booms
Mentor: Gerry Coetzee, Ph.D.
Thesis: Uncovering the functionality of PD risk-SNPs at the HLA locus in microglia
Maggie Chassé
Mentor: Patrick Grohar, M.D., Ph.D.
Thesis: Therapeutically targeting SWI/SNF mutant cancers
Wooyoung Choi
Mentor: Wei Lü, Ph.D.
Thesis: Structural Basis of Regulation Mechanisms of TRPC3
Shelby Compton
Mentor: Russell Jones, Ph.D.
Thesis: Investigating the mechanisms of LKB1-mediated inflammation in tumor progression
Eric Cordeiro-Spinetti, M.S.
Mentor: Scott Rothbart, Ph.D.
Thesis: Investigating the roles of lysine-methyltransferases in the epigenetic regulation of cardiac and skeletal myogenesis
Zachary DeBruine
Mentor: Karsten Melcher, Ph.D.
Thesis: Structural mechanisms of Wnt-mediated Frizzled activation
Nadia Dehghani
Mentor: Rita Guerreiro, Ph.D.
Thesis: Genetic characterization of dementia in a Turkish cohort
Patrick Dischinger
Mentor: Matt Steensma, M.D.
Thesis: Investigating NF1 transcript variants in RAS deregulation and breast cancer progression
Dylan Dues
Mentor: Darren Moore, Ph.D.
Thesis: Contributions of LRRK2 and alpha-synuclein in neuropathologic phenotypes of Parkinson’s disease
Lauren Duimstra
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Jamie Endicott
Mentor: Peter Laird, Ph.D.
Thesis: Building a mitotic clock
Joe Floramo, M.S.
Mentor: Tao Yang, Ph.D.
Thesis: Polysumoylation’s role in skeletal development and homeostasis
Ellen Griggs
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Emery Haley
Mentor: Juan Du, Ph.D.
Thesis: Structural, biochemical and pharmacological analysis of TRP channels in chemosensation and signaling
Laura Harmon
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Katie Hollis
Mentor: Bart Williams, Ph.D.
Thesis: Receptor specificity of Wnt signaling
Rachel House
Mentor: Matt Steensma, M.D.
Thesis: Identification and exploitation of metabolic reprogramming in NF1-mutant cancers
Vanessa Howland
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Leena Kariapper
Mentor: Karsten Melcher, Ph.D.
Thesis: Structure and repression mechanisms of plant MYC complexes: structural basis for MYC repressor-activator transition
Alysa Kasen
Mentor: Lena Brundin, M.D., Ph.D.
Thesis: The role of the immune response in Parkinson’s Disease – a translational study in patients and model systems
Ariana Kupai
Mentor: Scott Rothbart, Ph.D.
Thesis: Defining molecular determinants of methyllysine-driven interactions
Yanqing Liu
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Mitch McDonald
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Lauren McGee
Mentor: Matt Steensma, M.D.
Thesis: Identifying pathways of therapy resistance in NF1-related MPNST
Vladimir Molchanov
Mentor: Tao Yang, Ph.D.
Thesis: Engineering stem cells to treat osteoarthritis
Brandon Oswald
Mentor: Russell Jones, Ph.D.
Thesis project title to be determined
Andrea Parham
Mentor: TBD
Thesis project title to be determined
Jordan Prahl
Mentor: Gerry Coetzee, Ph.D.
Thesis: Post-GWAS characterization of Parkinson’s disease risk-SNP rs356182
Alfredo Reyes Oliveras
Mentor: Brian Haab, Ph.D.
Thesis: Linking glycosylation changes in Pancreatic Cancer with metabolic dependencies
April Rickle
Mentor: Heidi Lempradl, Ph.D.
Thesis: Impact of toxins and nutrients on brain function and development
Nathan Spix
Mentor: Peter Laird, Ph.D.
Thesis: Deep molecular characterization of DNA methylation in human colorectal cancer
Bailey Tibben
Mentor: Scott Rothbart, Ph.D.
Thesis: Mechanisms of oncohistone-mediated tumorigenesis
Robert Vaughan
Mentor: Scott Rothbart, Ph.D.
Thesis: Epigenetic regulation through histone ubiquitination
Leslie Wyman
Mentor: Darren Moore, Ph.D.
Thesis: Identifying intramolecular and intermolecular interactions regulating LRRK2 activity and neurotoxicity