PULSe Alumni Profiles

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Tony Hazbun

Specific Research Area / Project:

Identifying small molecule mode of action of Hsp90 inhibitors

Training Group:

Membrane Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Christine Hrycyna

Specific Research Area / Project:

Characterization of the Substrate Binding Site of Isoprenyclysteine Carboxyl Methylstransferase and Targeted Inhibition to Improve Curren Chemotherapeutics

Training Group:

Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Robert Geahlen

Specific Research Area / Project:

The Role of Syk in P-bodies and EMT

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Robert Geahlen

Specific Research Area / Project:

The role of Syk at the centrosome

Training Group:

Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Mentor / Lab:

Prof. Richard Kuhn

Specific Research Area / Project:

Molecular Virology

Training Group:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Chris Rochet

Specific Research Area / Project:

Effects of the A53E substitution on alpha synuclein aggregation and neurotoxicity in Parkinson's disease

Training Group:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Riyi Shi, M.D., Ph.D.

Specific Research Area / Project:

Translational Neuroscience: Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injury

Training Group:

Entomology

Mentor / Lab:

Mike Scharf

Specific Research Area / Project:

Termite symbiosis and collaborative physiology

Training Group:

Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Douglas J LaCount

Specific Research Area / Project:

Plasmodium falciparum-exported proteins and their erythrocyte cytoskeletal targets

Training Group:

Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics

Mentor / Lab:

Richard J. Kuhn

Specific Research Area / Project:

Flavivirus assembly and structural dynamics

Training Group:

Basic Medical Sciences

Mentor / Lab:

Riyi Shi, M.D., Ph.D. / Laboratory of Translational Neuroscience

Specific Research Area / Project:

Oxidative stress-mediated inflammation and behavioral deficits after mild blast-induced traumatic brain injury (mbTBI)

Training Group:

Comparative Pathology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Timothy Ratliff Lab

Specific Research Area / Project:

Cholesterol sulfotransferase (SULT) 2B1b as a regulator of cholesterol metabolism in prostate cancer

Training Group:

Biophysics

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Andy Tao

Specific Research Area / Project:

Phosphoproteomics, Quantitative proteomics

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Stephen Konieczny

Specific Research Area / Project:

Thrombin-Dependent pathways drive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma disease