Graduate Students

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Akhter, Nasima

PhD Student

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

Interests: Mechanisms of species-specific thermotolerance across the Saccharomyces species

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Balakrishnan, Aiswarya

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Eric Wagner
Office Location
G-9852 KMRB
Telephone
(585) 276-3425

Interests: The role of cytoplasmic CPSF73 assembly factors on mRNA 3’-end processing

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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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

Chen, Minhao

PhD Student

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

Interests: Starvation-Induced Lipid Droplets In Drosophila Melanogaster Oogenesis

Cutting, Joseph

PhD Student

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

Interests: Exploration of Sirt6 Gene Variants from Long-Lived Species and their Effect on Lifespan and Genomic Stability

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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

De Silva, Naduni

PhD Student

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

Interests: Investigating the dual role of Importin 9 (Ipo9) in H2Av chaperoning and protection in Drosophila

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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

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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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Kim, Sei Joong

PhD Student

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

Interests: Characterizing the role of metabolites in wound healing of African Spiny Mouse

Kirz, Brian

PhD Student

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

Interests: Evolution in Fluctuating Environments in the North American Red Squirrel

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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
309 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-8389

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

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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

Morandini, Francesco

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Vera Gorbunova
Office Location
425 Hutchison
Telephone
(525) 275-6637

Interests: Investigating timing, cause and effect of L1 de-repression during human immune aging

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Rechsteiner, Cheyenne

PhD Student

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

Interests: Investigating the role of 2’-O-methylation in ribosomal RNA as a modulator of ribosomal function and stress resistance

Reger, Noah

PhD Student

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

Interests: Histone buffering in zebrafish and fly embryos: mechanisms and function

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

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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

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Walker, Azra

PhD Student

Advisor(s)
Anne S. Meyer
Office Location
301 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 276-2372

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

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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, 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