Postdoctoral Fellows:
- Marlene Samuelson, Ph.D. (Case-Western U., Dr. G. Lesh-Laurie, sponsor)
- Project: Analysis of histone modifications during the cell cycle of Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Support: Monroe County Cancer and Leukemia Society Grant; NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position: Unknown
- Chandrakant Giri, Ph.D. (Georgetown University, Dr. M. Smulson, sponsor)
- Project: Nuclease digestion of rDNA chromatin
- Support: NIH Genetics Training Grant; NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Research Associate, USDA
- Charles David Allis, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Dr. A. Mahowald, sponsor)
- Project: Studies of macro- and micronuclear chromatin
- Support: NIH Research Service Award
- Current Position: Byrd Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Microbiology, University of Virginia
- Susan D. Guttman, Ph.D. (University of Rochester, Dr. M. Gorovsky, sponsor)
- Project: Control of cilia regeneration of Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia
- Rosemary Marano Callahan, Ph.D. (Thomas Jefferson U, Dr. P. Marx, sponsor)
- Project: Characterization of tubulin genes of Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Unknown
- Gary Bannon, Ph.D. (Iowa State University, Dr. George G. Brown, sponsor)
- Project: Isolation and characterization of histone genes of Tetrahymena
- Support: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Kathleen Shupe, Ph.D. (Texas A & M, Dr. Peter Rizzo, sponsor)
- Project: in vitrotranscription of Tetrahymenagenes
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
- James Cupo, Ph.D (Texas A & M, Dr. C. N. Pace, sponsor)
- Project: Characterization of alpha-tubulin gene rearrangement in Tetrahymenamacronuclei
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation
- Franco Venanzi, Ph.D. (Camerino University, Dr. G. Gianfranceschi, sponsor)
- Project: Analysis of chromatin containing histone variant hv1
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Research Faculty, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
- Su-May Yu, Ph.D. (University of Arkansas, Dr. G.E. Templeton, sponsor)
- Project: Analysis of histone gene expression in Tetrahymenausing in situ hybridization
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
- David Pennock, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Dr. Ronald Reeder, sponsor)
- Project: Isolation and characterization of mutants affecting cilia regeneration in Tetrahymena
- Support: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position: Associate Professor, Miami University (Ohio)
- Qian Zhou (Shanghia First Medical School)
- Project: In vitrotranscription of Tetrahymenagenes
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Technicial Associate, Department of Biochemstry, University of Rochester
- Peter Dedon, M.D.-Ph.D. (University of Rochester, Dr. Richard Borch, sponsor)
- Project: Immunological approaches to the isolation of chromatin sub-fractions
- Support: James P. Wilmot Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
- Daniel Heruth, Ph.D. (University of South Dakota, Dr. R. Quakenbush, sponsor)
- Project: Genetic and molecular analysis of tubulin gene expression in Tetrahymena
- Support: ACS Research Grant
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, William Jewell College, Kansas City, MO
- Martin Zillmann, Ph.D. (Rice University, Dr. Susan Berget, sponsor)
- Project: Analysis of RNA splicing in Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH research grant
- Current Position: Research Scientist, Hybridon Inc., Worcester, MA
- Jacek Gaertig, Ph.D. (Warsaw University)
- Project: Isolation of tubulin genes and tubulin mutants in Tetrahymena
- Support: The Kosciuszko Foundation, NIH research grant
- Current Position: Assistant Professsor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Georgia
- Joyce Weir, Ph.D. (New York University, Dr. Issar Smith, sponsor)
- Project: Nuclear targeting of histones in Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Unknown
- Shi-min Fang, Ph.D. (Michigan State University, Dr. Z.F. Burton, sponsor)
- Project: Effects of H1 on chromatin structure in Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Unknown
- John D. Jackson, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University, Dr. R. Hardison, sponsor)
- Project: Function of the H2A.F/Z variant hv1 in yeast and Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Researcher, Johnson & Johnson
- Yali Dou, Ph.D. (University of Rochester, Dr. M. Gorovsky, sponsor)
- Project: In vivo function of linker histone H1 phosphorylation in Tetrahymena thermophila
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University
- Jianming Duan, Ph.D. (Beijing Medical University)
- Project: Analysis of tubulin function in Tetrahymena
- Support: NIH Research Grant
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Graduate Students:
- Meng-Chao Yao (1975)
- Thesis: Comparison of the sequence composition of macro- and micronuclear DNA of Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: University of Rochester Teaching Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Yale University, Dr. J. G. Gall, sponsor
- Current Position: Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Basic Sciences Division, Seattle, WA
- Carol A. Johmann (1976)
- Thesis: Biochemical and immunoflourescent studies on the macro- and micronuclear histones of Tetrahymena
- Graduate Support: NIH Predoctoral Traineeship
- Postdoctoral Position: Rockefeller University, Dr. V. Allfrey, sponsor
- Current Position: Freelance author
- Alan R. Kimmel (1977)
- Thesis: Repeated genes in macro- and micronuclei of Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: NIH Predoctoral Traineeship
- Postdoctoral Position: University of California at San Diego: Dr. R. Firtel, sponsor
- Awarded American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Current Position: Molecular Mechanisms of Development Section Chief, Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
- Diane J. Mathis (1978)
- Thesis: Nuclease digestion analyses of rDNA-containing chromatin in Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: NIH Predoctoral Traineeship
- Postdoctoral Position: Faculte de Medecin de Strasbourg; Dr. P. Chambon, sponsor
- Awarded American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and Damon Runyon Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Associate, Department of Microbiology, Stanford with Dr. H. McDevit
- Current Position: Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
- Susan D. Guttman (1978)
- Thesis: Cilia regeneration in starved Tetrahymena pyriformis:a characterization of protein synthesis following deciliation
- Graduate Support: NIH Predoctoral Traineeship
- Postdoctoral Position: University of Rochester, M. Gorovsky, sponsor (1978-79); Department of Pharmacology, Stanford University, Dr. Helen Blau, sponsor
- Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia
- Claiborne V. C. Glover, III (1979)
- Thesis: Structure and function of the inner histones of Tetrahymenamacronuclei: partial sequences and histone-histone interactions
- Graduate Support: NIH Predoctoral Traineeship
- Postdoctoral Position: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University. Dr. Douglas Brutlag, sponsor
- Awarded Damon Runyon Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Current Position: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
- Karen J. Vavra (1981)
- Thesis: Studies on the structure of active and inactive chromatin in Tetrahymena:comparisons of nuclease digestion kinetics and histone acetylation in macro- micronuclei, and in ribosomal gene-containing chromatin.
- Graduate Support: NIH Genetics and Regulation Training Grant; NIH Research Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: Department of Biology, Yale University; Dr. Joseph G. Gall, sponsor
- Current Position: Research Scientist, Genencor
- Mary Colavito-Shepanski (1982)
- Thesis: Studies on the histone composition of ribosomal gene-containing chromatin of Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: NIH Genetics and Regulation Training Grant: NIH Research Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: Department of Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Michael Grunstein, sponsor
- Current Position: Professor and Chair, Life Sciences Department, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
- Frank J. Calzone (1982)
- Thesis: The regulation of protein synthesis in Tetrahymena pyriformis: A quantitative analysis of the factors determining the rate of tubulin synthesis and general protein synthesis in growing, starved, and deciliated cells
- Graduate Support: NIH Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant, NIH Research Grant, ACS Institutional Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Dr. Eric Davidson, sponsor
- Current Position: Research Scientist, Molecular Biology, Amgen Center
- David S. Pederson (1983)
- Thesis: Role of sequence organization and chromatin structure in the expression of 5S ribosomal and histone genes in Tetrahymena.
- Graduate Support: NIH Cell and Molecular Training Grant, NIH Genetics Training Grant, NIH Research Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIH, Dr. Robert Simpson, sponsor
- Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont
- Stuart Horowitz (1986)
- Thesis: Structure, evolution and expression of histone H3 and H4 genes in the ancient eukaryote, Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, NIH Research Grant, American Cancer Society Institutional Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Dr. Donald Shapiro, sponsor
- Current Position: Director of Research and Technology, Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute, Louisville, KY
- Elizabeth White (1988)
- Thesis: Studies of the macronuclear specific histones hv1 (an evolutionarily conserved H2A variant) and H1 in Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship, Cell and Molecular Training Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: None
- Current Position: Director, Business Planning & Analysis International, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
- Min Wu (1989)
- Thesis: The genes coding for macro- and micronucleus-specific linker proteins of Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Messersmith Fellowship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Susumu Tonegawa, sponsor
- Current Position: Shionogi BioResearch, Lexington, MA
- Alison A. Bertuch (1993; Jointly with A. Worcel)
- Thesis: The relationship between chromatin structure and transcription in an in vitromodel system
- Graduate Support: Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Completed M.D. portion of MD-Ph.D degree at University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
- Kathleen McGrath (1993)
- Thesis: Gene regulation in Tetrahymena:the expression and comparative evolutionary constraints of its multifunctional alpha-tubulin and the character and rDNA association of its nucleolar phosphorylated protein NoPP52
- Graduate Support: Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center
- Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center
- Laurie Stargell (1993)
- Thesis: Studies on the transcriptional regulation of gene expression in Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate Support: Research Assistantship, NIH Training Grant
- Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard University
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Colorado State University
- Xiuwen Liu (1994)
- Thesis: Functional analysis of histone H2A genes in Tetrahymenaand in yeast
- Graduate support: Research Assistantship, Teaching Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: National Institutes of Health
- Current position: Director of Research, Biotherapies, Inc.
- Long Gu (1995)
- Thesis: Analysis of the expression and function of beta-tubulin in Tetrahymena pyriformis
- Graduate support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Department of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Barrett Rollins, sponsor
- Current Position: Research Scientist, Monsanto Corp., St. Louis, MO
- Xuetong Shen (1996)
- Thesis: Functional analysis of Tetrahymena thermophilalinker histones in vivo.
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: National Institutes of Health, Dr. Carl Wu, sponsor
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Carcinogenesis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Bing Li (1997)
- Thesis: Cloning and functional studies of the GTU (gamma-tubulin) and BLT (beta-like tubulin) genes in Tetrahymena.
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: MBA Program, Kellog School, Northwestern University
- Current Position: Scientist, Eli Lilly
- Bing Hai (1998)
- Thesis: Development of a high frequency transformation system for mutagenic studies of essential genes and genetic analysis of alpha-tubulin polyglycylation in Tetrahymena thermophila
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Rockefeller University, Dr. Jeffrey Ravetch, sponsor
- Current Position: Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Exelixis Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA
- Yali Dou (2001)
- Thesis: In vivofunction of linker histone H1 phosphorylation in Tetrahymena thermophila.
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dr. Robert G. Roeder, sponsor
- Qinghu Ren (2003)
- Thesis: In vivofunctions of the post-translational modifications of Histone H2A and H2A.Z in Tetrahymena thermophila.
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: The Institute for Genomic Research, Dr. Ian Paulsen, sponsor
- Yuhua Shang (2003)
- Thesis: In vivo functions of gamma-tubulin in Tetrahymena thermophila.
- Graduate Support: Sproull Fellow, Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: Sloan Kettering Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Dr. Gero Miesenbeock, sponsor
- Yifan Liu (2003)
- Thesis: Genetic studies of RNA-mediated DNA elimination in the developing macronuclei of Tetrahymena thermophila.
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: The Rockefeller University, Department of Biochemistry, Structural Biology & Chemistry, Dr. C. David Allis, sponsor
- Kathleen Clark (2003)
- Thesis: Functional analysis of the beta-tubulin-like gene, BLT1, in Tetrahymena thermophila.
- Graduate Support: Teaching Assistantship, Research Assistantship
- Postdoctoral Position: University of Rochester's Center for Human Genetic/Molecular Pediatric Disease, Mark Dumont, sponsor
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