Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Honors
Dean’s List, University of Rochester (Fall 2020-Spring 2024)
Whipple Science and Research Scholarship, University of Rochester (Fall 2020-Spring 2024)
Graduated Magna cum Laude, University of Rochester (2024)
Research Experience
March 2025-May 2025 Dr. Joshua Munger: Investigating the impact of NUDT21 and PKM knockdown on HCMV infection
January 2025-March 2025 Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko: Investigating the effect of ribosome-targeting antibiotics on translation elongation dynamics
October 2025-December 2025 Dr. Clara Kielkopf: Exploring the potential roles of TatSF1 in splicing and HIV infectivity
June 2024-August 2024 New England Biolabs (internship): Performing buffer compatibility testing via multiple assays to determine exonuclease efficacy under different experimental conditions
June 2023-August 2023 Ultima Genomics (internship): Mutating, purifying, and optimizing a protein linker for use in a next-generation sequencing workflow
Current Research
My current research involves using single molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) to characterize the bacterial helicase HrpA, which has recently been implicated in collided ribosome rescue. I will also develop smFRET assays to study the mechanisms of bacterial ribosome collision and rescue, which can provide further insight into bacterial evasion of ribosome-targeting antibiotics.
