Our Laboratory: Roots of our PHDs

Aliaa Abdelhakim, PhD
MIT, Biology
Advisor: Dr. Tania Baker
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Jawdat Al-Bassam, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, Cell Biology
Advisor: Ron Milligan
Title: The Interaction of MAPs and Kinesin Motors with the Neuronal Cytoskeleton

Marcelo J Berardi, PhD
Dartmouth College, Chemistry
Advisor: John H. Bushweller
Title: Part I: NMR Solution Structure of the Ribonucleotide Reductase B1 (737-761) - Glutaredoxin-1 C14S Mixed Disulfide. Part II: Structure of the Core Binding Factor Alpha (CBFA) bound to DNA

Jia Chen, PhD
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics
Advisor: Zihe Rao
Title:

Uhn-Soo Cho, PhD
University of Washington, Biological Structure
Advisor: Dr.Wenqing Xu
Title:

Kevin D Corbett, PhD
UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology
Advisor: James Berger
Title: Structural studies of type II topoisomerases from archaea and bacteria

Gary Frey, PhD
Brandeis, Biochemistry
Advisor: RH Abeles
Title:

John D Genova, PhD
Brown, Chemistry
Advisor: E. Carpenter
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Stephen C Harrison, PhD
Harvard, Biophysics
Advisor: D.L.D.Caspar
Title: Structure of tomato bushy stunt virus

Simon Jenni, PhD
ETH Zurich, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nenad Ban
Title: The Crystal Structures of Fungal Fatty Acid Synthase and the Mechanism of Compartmentalized Multienzymatic Catalysis

Mark Jezyk, PhD
UNC - Chapel Hill,
Advisor: John Sondek
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Daryl E Klein, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Advisor: Mark Lemmon, PhD
Title: Biochemical and Structural Studies of an EGFR Antagonist

Bo Liang, PhD
Florida State University, Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Advisor: Hong Li
Title: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF A RNA-GUIDED RNA MODIFICATION ENZYME - BOX H/ACA RNP

Junhua Pan, PhD
Rice University, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Advisor: Yizhi Jane Tao
Title: Structural and Functional Studies of Birnavirus RNA Polymerases – Insights into the Protein-priming Mechanism and the Evolution of RNA Viruses

Florian J Schmitzberger, PhD
University of Cambridge, Biochemistry
Advisor: Tom Blundell
Title: Structural studies of two enzymes of pantothenate biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

Ethan C Settembre, PhD
Cornell University, BCMB
Advisor: Steven E. Ealick
Title: Structural Biology of Two Key Enzymes of the Thiamin Biosynthesis Pathway

Ian J Stokes-Rees, PhD
University of Oxford, Physics
Advisor: Ian McArthur
Title: A REST Model for High Throughput Scheduling in Computational Grids

Matthias Wolf, PhD
Brandeis, Biophysics
Advisor: N.Grigorieff
Title: Three-Dimensional Structure of L-Type Calcium Channel and Ewald Sphere Correction for Single Particle Electron Microscopy

Yi Xing, PhD
University of Washington, Biological Structure
Advisor: Wenqing Xu
Title: Structural studies of Wnt pathway and PI3K/CISK pathway