Name |
Year |
Mentor |
Current Postion |
Thesis Title |
Julio Sanchez | 2020 | Musselman | Postdoctoral Fellow, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | "Characteriztion of the DNA Binding Activity of the BRG1 AT-hook-bromodomain" |
Tingting Duan | 2020 | Geyer | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iowa | "The nuclear lamina is required for stem cell mitosis and survival" |
Sean Tompkins | 2020 | Taylor | Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago | "The role of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier in the development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma" |
Nitija Tiwari | 2020 | Fuentes | Research Scientist-Input Traits Discovery, Corteva Argiscience | "Regulatory mechanisms of the S.aureus SrrAB two-component system" |
Brittany Ripley | 2020 | Washington | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iowa | "Regulated recruitment of translesion synethsis polymerases through direct interactions with Rad6-18" |
Devin Reusch (MS) | 2020 | Washington | Protein and Crystallography Facility, University of Iowa | "Time lapsed X-ray Crystallography of DNA Polymerase" |
Ryan Mahling | 2020 | Shea | Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University | "Recognition of NaV1.2 by Calmodulin and Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factors" |
William Hacker | 2020 | Elcock | Clinical Instructor, University of Iowa | "Computational modeling of the Escherichia coli chromosome and integrated simulations of bacterial transcription and translation" |
Colleen Caldwell | 2021 | M. Spies | TBD | "RPA DNA-binding domain dynamics: A target for homologous recombination regulation" |
Alicia Salvi | 2021 | DeMali | Senior Scientist at Zeotis, Lincoln Nebraska | "Mechanisms and Forced Transmission" |
Diamond Jelani (MS) | 2021 | Fuentes | TBD | "Chemical regulation of two-component systems: a study of the regulation of Staphylococcus aureus two-component systems, SrrAB and ArlRS, through the effects of small molecules" |
Robert McDonnell | 2021 | Elcock | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iowa | "Modeling RNAs: From Small Molecules to Bacterial Polysomes" |
Colton Lankford | 2021 | Baker | Postdoctoral Associate, The Scripps Research Institute | "Function and regulation of the protoreceptor hyperpolarization-gated channel HCN1" |
Kelli Davie | 2021 | Davies | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iowa | "The Regulation of Endothelial Lipase and Lipoprotein Lipase by ANGPTL3 and ANGPTL8" |
Christopher Ball | 2022 | Price | Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School | "The Impact of Gdown1, IE2, and Human Cytomegalovirus Infection on Transcription" |
Fletcher Bain | 2022 | M. Spies | TBD | "Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 G-quadruplex DNA Binding and AutoPARylation is Dependent on DNA Sequence and Secondary Structure" |
Zachary Wehrspan | 2022 | Elcock | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa | "Whole cell models of Escherichia coli peptidoglycan" |
Kathryn Hobbs | 2023 | A. Spies | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa | "Caspase-7 Allostery and Drug Targeting" |
Emily Lavering | 2023 | Weeks | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint | "Examining membraneless compartmentalization in the nucleolus" |
Justin Ling | 2023 | Washington | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Kansas Medical Center | "Structures and non-canonical functions of E3 ubiquitin ligases in DNA damage bypass" |