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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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