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  • Dao, Thao Kim

    Office Location
    338 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-7521

    Interests: The roles of retinoic acid in shell and embryonic development in the mollusc Ilyanassa

  • Deng, Chenghong

    Office Location
    328 Hutchison
    Telephone
    (585) 275-0348

    Interests: The role of tRNA modification in neuron development

  • De Silva, Manikkuwadura

    Office Location
    311 Hutchison
    Telephone
    (585) 276-2440

    Interests: TBD

  • Driscoll, Rose

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    Office Location
    303 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-8388

    Interests: Evolutionary genetics of phenotypic plasticity in aphids

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  • Hamazaki, Sakura

    Office Location
    4-8517 Medical Center
    Telephone
    (585) 276-5489

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

  • Heinze, Eric

    • First Year PhD Student

    Interests: TBD

  • Hillpot, Eric

    Office Location
    425 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-6637

    Interests: TBD

  • Hu, Gang

    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

    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

    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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  • Park, Jaeyoung (Jay)

    Interests: Developmental roles of retinoic acid signaling in Tritia

  • Phromsiri, Pakinee

    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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  • Saleh Ziabari, Omid

    Office Location
    303 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-8388

    Interests: The parallel evolution of wings in aphids

  • Shipley, Alicia

    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

    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

    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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  • Walker, Tyler

    Office Location
    331 Hutchison
    Telephone
    (585) 275-2809

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

  • Walunjkar, Nilima

    Office Location
    313 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 276-3843

    Interests: Causes and consequences of thermal divergence in Saccharomyces species

  • White, Roger

    Office Location
    311 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 276-2440

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

  • Wnuk, Hayley

    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

    Office Location
    425 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-6637

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

  • Zhang, Jiarui

    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

    Office Location
    328 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-0348

    Interests: Molecular functions of tRNA methyltransferase in neuronal development

  • Zhang, Rui

    Office Location
    3.7531 Medical Center
    Telephone
    (585) 275-1226

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

  • Zhang, Zhihui

    Office Location
    425 Hutchison Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-6637

    Interests: Anti-aging and anti-cancer effects of high molecular weight hyaluronic acid

  • Zhu, Mingyi

    Office Location
    3-8816 Medical Center
    Telephone
    (585) 275-1734

    Interests: RNA secondary structure prediction