PULSe Alumni Profiles

Training Group:

Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Mentor / Lab:

Emily C. Dykhuizen

Specific Research Area / Project:

Polycomb repressor complex 1 in health and disease

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Chang-Deng Hu

Specific Research Area / Project:

Mechanisms and Targeting of PRMT5-mediated Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate cancer

Training Group:

Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Mentor / Lab:

Richard J. Kuhn

Specific Research Area / Project:

Flavivirus maturation in mosquitoes

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Michael K. Wendt

Specific Research Area / Project:

Cancer Biology, Anti-metastatic Pharmacology, Drug Resistance Nodal Targeting as a Multifunctional Therapeutic Strategy in Drug Resistant Metastatic Cancer

Contact Email:

ccorpste@purdue.edu

Training Group:

Chemical Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Tonglei Li

Specific Research Area / Project:

Developing and predicting long-acting drug formulation performance for pediatric HIV

Training Group:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Jason Cannon

Specific Research Area / Project:

Heterocyclic Amine Exposure and Risk of Parkinson's Disease

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:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Yuk Fai Leung

Specific Research Area / Project:

Drug Discovery for Retinitis Pigmentosa

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:

Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Mentor / Lab:

Doug LaCount

Specific Research Area / Project:

Human-viral protein-protein interactions

Training Group:

Biotechnology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Kevin Solomon

Specific Research Area / Project:

Engineering Anaerobic Fungi for Production of Secondary Metabolites

Training Group:

Biotechnology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Sarah Calve

Specific Research Area / Project:

Proteomic analysis of extracellular matrix dynamics during mouse forelimb development

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:

Chemical Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Jean Chmielewski

Specific Research Area / Project:

Mechanism of Action of the Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptide P14LRR

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:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Dr Alex Chubykin

Specific Research Area / Project:

Neural Basis of Visual Change Detection

Training Group:

Plant Biology

Mentor / Lab:

John J. Couture

Specific Research Area / Project:

Using hyperspectral data to assess genetic variation in plant functional traits and responses to stress

Training Group:

Entomology

Mentor / Lab:

Mike Scharf

Specific Research Area / Project:

Termite symbiosis and collaborative physiology

Training Group:

Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Nicholas Noinaj

Specific Research Area / Project:

Structural and Functional Studies of β-barrel Assembly Machinery

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:

Chromatin and Regulation of Gene Expression

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Andrea Kasinski

Specific Research Area / Project:

Identifying functional circular RNAs (circRNAs) that modulate tumor progression

Training Group:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Jennifer Freeman/ Freeman Lab

Specific Research Area / Project:

Developmental toxicology. Defining developmental toxicity of the agricultural herbicide atrazine in the exposed and subsequent generations using zebrafish

Training Group:

Membrane Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Christine Hrycyna

Specific Research Area / Project:

Mapping of the Ste24 Binding Site

Training Group:

Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics

Mentor / Lab:

Richard J. Kuhn

Specific Research Area / Project:

Flavivirus assembly and structural dynamics

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Brittany Allen-Petersen

Specific Research Area / Project:

The role of PP2A-B56a in acinar-to-ductal metaplasia and initiation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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:

Integrative Neuroscience

Mentor / Lab:

Talavage/Shi/Rispoli

Specific Research Area / Project:

Investigating and understanding metabolic dysfunction in contact sports athletes

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:

Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Nicholas Noinaj

Specific Research Area / Project:

Structural and Functional Studies of Lactoferrin Binding Proteins from Neisseria

Training Group:

Molecular Signaling and Cancer Biology

Mentor / Lab:

Dr. Stephen Konieczny

Specific Research Area / Project:

Thrombin-Dependent pathways drive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma disease