Graduate Students

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Bellomio, Philip

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Sina Ghaemmaghami
Office Location
336 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-1237

Interests: Incorporation of oxidized methionine within the nascent polypeptide during protein translation

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Cammarota, Christian

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Daniel Bergstralh
Office Location
330 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-6680

Interests: Biological physics and the role of mechanics in tissue development and cell processes

Castano, Maria Isabel

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
J. Albert C. Uy
Office Location
340 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 273-1309

Interests: Behavioral ecology and speciation of Neotropical birds

Cefaloni, Eric

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Paula Vertino
Office Location
3-0852 Wilmot Cancer Center
Telephone
(585) 275-9983

Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms driving breast cancer and epithelial to mesenchymal transition

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Deng, Chenghong

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Dragony Fu
Office Location
328 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-0348

Interests: The role of tRNA modification in neuron development

Driscoll, Rose

she/her/hers

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Jennifer Brisson
Office Location
303 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8388

Interests: Evolutionary genetics of phenotypic plasticity in aphids

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Gregory, Lauren

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Jennifer Brisson
Office Location
303 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8388

Interests: Investigation of the proximate basis of the aphid wing polyphenism

Gu, Ningyang

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
David Dean
Office Location
3-11311 MRBX
Telephone
(585) 275-3577

Interests: Using microinjection, FISH, and single-particle tracking to understand the intranuclear movement of plasmids

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Hamazaki, Sakura

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
John Lueck
Office Location
4-8517 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 276-5489

Interests: Investigating the role of calcium mishandling in Myotonic Dystrophy Type I ( DM1) myopathy

Hu, Gang

Master's Student

Advisor(s)
David Mathews

Interests: Improving RNA structure stability predictions by creating a software model that uses updated nearest neighbor parameters for more accurate estimations of melting temperatures and interacting strand concentrations

Hua, Shan

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Patrick Murphy
Office Location
2-9633 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-0113

Interests: Investigating the role of H2A.Z and ANP32E on regulating gene expression

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Irvin, Joseph

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Gail Johnson
Office Location
4-6314 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 276-3740

Interests: The role of mitophagy on caspase 3 contingent tau pathology in neurons

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Kovelakuntla, Vamsi

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PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Anne S. Meyer
Office Location
331 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-2809

Interests: Bacterially-mediated fabrication of artificial nacre

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Leo, Cailyn

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Dragony Fu
Office Location
328 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-0348

Interests: Determining the spatial and temporal effects of TRMT1 on neurodevelopment of mice

Liu, Xiaomi

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Jennifer Brisson
Office Location
303 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-8388

Interests: Wing plasticity in aphids, with a focus on a computational approach

Longan, Emery

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Justin Fay
Office Location
313 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-3843

Interests: Genetic constraints on adaptation and their role in the evolution of domestication associated traits in the Saccharomyces yeasts

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Marti, Emiliano

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Amanda Larracuente
Daven Presgraves
Office Location
337 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 273-2475

Interests: Evolutionary history and molecular mechanisms of meiotic drive (sensu lato). Consequences of intragenomic conflicts in genome evolution and the origin of the species

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Phromsiri, Pakinee

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Michael Welte
Office Location
311 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-2440

Interests: Mechanisms and consequences of histone buffering in the early Drosophila embryo

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Romero, Faye

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Nancy Chen
Office Location
476 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-7153

Interests: Evolutionary and population genomics; genetic causes and consequences of inbreeding depression in the Florida Scrub-Jay

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Shipley, Alicia

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Michael Welte
Office Location
311 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-2440

Interests: The mechanism of H2Av exchange between lipid droplets in Drosophila embryogenesis and its temporal regulation at the midblastula transition

Sidor, Lynn

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Anne Meyer
Office Location
331 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2809

Interests: Using synthetic biology to engineer bacteria to be able to polymerize a layer of polysilicate surrounding themselves, allowing for the creation of bacterial microlenses

Summers, Jeremy

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Nancy Chen
Office Location
476 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7153

Interests: The demographic and genetic effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on the Florida Scrub-Jay

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Tahir, Imran

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Arshad Rahman
Office Location
3-11301 MRBX
Telephone
(585) 276-4650

Interests: Studying endothelial barrier dysfunction in the context of acute lung injury

Tan, Ruiyue

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Sina Ghaemmaghami
Office Location
336 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-1237

Interests: snRNA modification and its role in the pre-mRNA splicing

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Walker, Tyler

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Anne S. Meyer
Office Location
331 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-2809

Interests: The protection of DNA in response to stress in bacteria

Walunjkar, Nilima

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Justin Fay
Office Location
313 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-3843

Interests: Causes and consequences of thermal divergence in Saccharomyces species

White, Roger

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Michael Welte
Office Location
311 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-2440

Interests: The role fatty acid trafficking and usage during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis

Wnuk, Hayley

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Kuan Hong Wang
Office Location
G-9617 KMRB
Telephone
(585) 276-5162

Interests: The influence of emotional well-being on Alzheimer's Disease progression

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Zacher, Maxwell

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Vera Gorbunova
Office Location
425 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-6637

Interests: Genetic mechanisms underlying longevity and cancer resistance in the bowhead whale

Zhang, Jiarui

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Doug Portman
Office Location
2-9905 KMRB
Telephone
(585) 275-7915

Interests: Molecular mechanism of juvenile-to-adult maturation in the C. elegans nervous system

Zhang, Kejia

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Dragony Fu
Office Location
328 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0348

Interests: Molecular functions of tRNA methyltransferase in neuronal development

Zhang, Rui

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Yi-Tao Yu
Office Location
3.7531 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-1226

Interests: Pseudouridylation of snRNA and the mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing

Zhu, Mingyi

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Dave Mathews
Office Location
3-8816 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 275-1734

Interests: RNA secondary structure prediction