Selected Accomplishments
2021
Ashley Suris - predoctoral student at Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Vanessa Jones - predoctoral student at Univestiy of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana
Jenna Toohey - master's degree student at Liberty University
Connie Hou - laboratory technician, UMass Chan Medical School and a publication from her summer project with Han Xu, Ph.D.: Systematic decomposition of sequence determinants governing CRISPR/Cas9 specificity. Fu R, He W, Dou J, Villarreal OD, Bedford E, Wang H, Hou C, Zhang L, Wang Y, Ma D, Chen Y, Gao X, Depken M, Xu H. Nat Commun. 2022 Jan 25;13(1):474. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28028-x.PMID: 35078987
Esha Gupta - co-first author on publication based on her summer project with Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D.: Differential ETS1 binding to T:G mismatches within a CpG dinucleotide contributes to C-to-T somatic mutation rate of the IDH2 hotspot at codon Arg140. Yang J, Gupta E, Horton JR, Blumenthal RM, Zhang X, Cheng X. DNA Repair (Amst). 2022 May;113:103306. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2022.103306. PMID: 35255310
Avni Patel - authorship on Methyl-lysine readers PHF20 and PHF20L1 define two distinct gene expression-regulating NSL complexes. Van HT, Harkins PR, Patel A, Jain AK, Lu Y, Bedford MT, Santos MA. J Biol Chem. 2022 Mar;298(3):101588. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101588. Epub 2022 Jan 14.PMID: 35033534
2022
Uchechi Asika - First nursing student accepted to the program. She plans to pursue a combined M.D. - Ph.D. degree
Andy Qiao - in medical school at New York University, in preparation to become an oncologist
Katie Impelman - GSBS student, starting 2024
Sydney Christensen - GSBS student, starting 2024
2023 & 2024
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