Current Students

Francesca Boscolo, M.S.

Graduate Student, Sanford-Burnham Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Wenqing Cai, M.S.

Graduate Student

Wenqing Cai is focusing on natural inducers of heart differentiation in embryonic stem cells.

Giuseppinna Claps, M.S.

Graduate Student

Giuseppina is interested in define specific markers for normal prostate stem cells (PSCs) applying new methods.

Paula Coutino, M.S.

Graduate Student

Paula’s goal is to elucidate the individual role of Brm and Brg1-containing SWI/SNF complexes during myoblast differentiation.

Alessandra Dall'Agnese, M.S.

Graduate Student

Yi Ding, B.S.

Graduate Student

Yi Ding is interested in understanding structure and function of membrane protein, especially bacterial membrane protein.

Ryan Esquejo, 

Graduate Student

Domenico Fasci, B.S.

Graduate Student

Domenico Fasci is interested in the study of the SUMOylation/deSUMOylation cycle.

Sara Gelino, B.S.

Graduate Student

Sara Gelino is interested in the role of autophagy in the longevity pathway of dietary restriction.

Lorenzo Giordani, M.S.

Graduate Student

Lorenzo is interested in mechanism by which epigenetic events are integrated at the chromatin level to determine the sub-sets of genes that are expressed upon the commitment of embryonic or adult stem cells toward specific cell lineages.

Ryon Graf, B.S.

Graduate Student

Ryon is interested in the dual roles of Caspase 8 in cell migration and apoptosis.

Mirco Guigli, M.S.

Graduate Student

Mirco is mainly interested in cell-image-based high content screens (HCS).

Janna Hachmann, M.S.

Graduate Student

Janna Hachmann is interested in the oncogene known as MALT1, which plays a crucial role in certain forms of lymphoma.

Gianluigi Lichinchi, M.S.

Graduate Student

Gianluigi is interested in understanding the mechanisms involving small RNAs and RNA-protein complexes in regulating HIV-1 cycle and host-pathogen interactions.

Jingya Liu, B.S.

Graduate Student

Jinsha Liu, M.S.

Graduate Student

Jinsha aims to investigate the role of CDH13 and explore possible mechanisms in neuronal networks.

Philip McQuary, M.S.

Graduate Student

Philip is exploring the role of the translation initiation factor eIF4E2 in protein synthesis under stressful environmental conditions.

Angel Mei, B.S.

Graduate Student

Angel is interested in drug development through fragment based design using NMR.

Saumya Nagar, B.S.

Graduate Student

Saumya is interested in studying the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and the action of pro-electrophilic drugs in preventing apoptosis and promoting growth in such diseases.

Goon Park, M.S.

Graduate Student

Goon Ho is studying about molecular mechanism of parkinson disease.

Judith Scheliga, M.S.

Graduate Student

Judith Scheliga focuses on elucidating the biochemical pathways controlled by eIF3e and on linking its loss during breast carcinogenesis to its potential role in stress-specific translation and apoptosis.

Stephen Soonthornvacharin, B.S.

Graduate Student

Stephen is interested in employing a systems-based approach, which will integrate a series of functional genomics analyses to identify novel molecular factors in RIG-I-dependent type-I interferon signaling.

Victoria Thaney, B.S.

Graduate Student

Victoria’s research is focused on pathological processes associated with human immunodeficiency virus-1(HIV-1) infection, in particular HIV-1 associated dementia (HAD).

Matthew Tierney, M.A.

Graduate Student

Matthew is interested in investigating the microenvironmental cues and cell-autonomous features that influence the regenerative potential of these different populations.

Shabnam Vahidpour, M.S.

Graduate Student

Danhua Zhang, M.S.

Graduate Student

Danhua studies the development of liver and pancreas, endeavoring on defining key factors in this process.

Yifei Zhang, B.S.

Graduate Student

Yifei is researching molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer Disease (AD).

Ying Zhou, M.S.

Graduate Student

Ying is interested in siRNA delivery in cancer therapy.
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