Alumni

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Iowa University, Department of Periodontics, College of Dentistry

Thesis: Applied visual analytics in molecular, cellular, and microbiology

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Yashaswini Kannan

Advisor: Mark Wewers

Current Position: Scientific Investigator at GSK

Thesis: Functional characterization of human IkappaBzeta in modulating inflammatory responses

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Ian Kleckner

Advisor: Mark Foster

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Cancer Control Division: University of Rochester Medical Center

Thesis: Thermodynamic, kinetic, and dynamics studies of the allosteric ligand-responsive regulatory protein TRAP

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Tanping Li

Advisor: Dongping Zhong

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University

Thesis: The coupled water-protein dynamics within hydration layer surrounding protein and semiclassical approximation for optical response function

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Xin Li

Advisor: Michael Chan

Current Position: Scientist at Impossible Foods Inc.

Thesis: Development and application of chemical and structural biology approaches to probe protein function

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Hassan Borteh

Advisor: Derek Hansford

Current Position: Data Scientist at PNC

Thesis: Micropatterning of functional inorganic materials with benign chemistry using peptide catalysts

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Ali Hassanali

Advisor: Sherwin Singer & Dongping Zhong

Current Position: Researcher at The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Thesis: Water at molecular interfaces: structure and dynamics near biomolecules and amorphous silica

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Sarah Javaid

Advisor: Richard Fishel

Current Position: Associate Director at MSD

Thesis: Nucleosome remodeling by hMSH2-hMSH6

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YuKay Law

Advisor: Bern Kohler

Current Position: Associate Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University East

Thesis: Relationship Between the Kinetics of Thymine Dimer Formation and the Excited State Dynamics of DNA

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Bin Liu

Advisor: Jonathan Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Florida, Department of Human Nutrition

Thesis: Exploring The Effect Of Physiologically Relevant Protein Modifications On Cardiac Muscle Thin Filament Ca2+ Binding And Engineering TnC To Correct Disease Related Aberrant Thin Filament Ca2+ Binding

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Michelle Monasky

Advisor: Paul Janssen

Current Position: Cardiac Physiologist at Policlinico San Donato, Italy

Thesis: The Role of the Myofilaments in the Relaxation of Cardiac Myocardium

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Zoee Perrine

Advisor: Richard Sayre

Current Position: Research Scientist III at AB Biotek

Thesis: Modulating Energy and Electron Transfer Processes in Photosystem II of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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Nirut Pussadee

Advisor: Derek Hansford

Thesis: Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Based Micro- and Nanofluidic Device Fabrication for Electrophoresis Applications

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Ting-Yuan Yeh

Advisor: Mark Angelos

Current Position: Assistant Director at Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Thesis: The Role of Oxygen in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Post Resuscitation Period A Mitochondrial Perspective

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Simi Chacko

Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy

Current Position: Scientific Writer at Cactus Communications - Medical Communications

Thesis: Stem Cell Therapy for Myocardial Infarction: Overcoming the Hypoxic Impediment to Enhance Cell-survival and Engraftment

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Marianne Lee

Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thesis: A two-pronged approach to improve distant homology detection

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Haiyan Liu

Advisor: John Enyeart

Current Position: Registered Patent Agent at Saliwanchik Lloyd & Eisenschenk

Thesis: Hormonal control and pharmacology of bTREK-1 K+ channels in bovine adrenal zona fasciculata cells

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Scott Oliver

Advisor: Thomas Clanton

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Thesis: Thermal tolerance of skeletal muscle and small intestine: role of eicosanoid metabolism and oxidative stress

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Jian Zhang

Advisor: Jeffrey Bartlett

Current Position: NCH

Thesis: HIV 1 SIV Neutralizing Antibody Gene Delivery: A Novel Vaccination Approach

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Carlos Amero

Advisor: Mark Foster

Current Position: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos

Thesis: Protein Function Study by NMR Spectroscopy

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Seongjin Choi

Advisor: Petra Schmalbrock

Current Position: Senior Research Analyst at University of Maryland Baltimore

Thesis: Proton NMR and MRI studies of sub-millimeter sized biological objects

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Natalia Goldberger

Advisor: James Dalton

Current Position: Sr. Medical Science Liaison-Oncology at EMD Serono, Inc.

Thesis: A comprehensive investigation into the molecular mechanism responsible for selective androgen receptor (SARM) tissue-selectivity

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Emilia Iscru

Advisor: Michael Zhu

Current Position: Statistician at European Commission

Thesis: Electrophysiological characterization of the cerebellar Purkinje cells from the Pcp2-L7- deficient mice

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Aditi Kulkarni

Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy

Current Position: Independent Biotechnology Professional

Thesis: In vivo MRI of mouse heart at 11.7 t: monitoring of stem-cell therapy for myocardial infarction and evaluation of cardiac hypertrophy

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Soojin Lee

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Thesis: Structure and dynamics in proteins: Part I. structural origins of specific DNA recognition by GFI-1 Part II. structural and dynamic studies of S-crystallin and OPJ, implications for cataract formation

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Anjali Mahajan

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Current Position: Founder at CRAMbridge

Thesis: Interactions of Forkhead-Associated Domain, FHA1 of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Rad53 kinase with itself and the biological partners, Mdt1 and Rad9

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Cosmin Mihai

Advisor: Gunjan Agarwal

Current Position: Director, Cell Biology at Moderna Therapeutics

Thesis: Role of Oligomerization in Discoidin Domain Receptors - Collagen Type I Interaction

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Manoj Nair

Advisor: Donald Dean

Current Position: Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Thesis: Mechanism of Action of Insecticidal Crystal Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis: Biophysical and Biochemical Analyses of the Insertion of Cry1A Toxins into Insect Midgut Membranes

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Hatice Ozer

Advisor: William Ray

Current Position: Postdoc at The Ohio State University

Thesis: Residue Associations In Protein Family Alignments

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Weihong Qiu

Advisor: Dongping Zhong

Current Position: Associate Professor of Physics at Oregon State University

Thesis: Ultrafast Protein Hydration Dynamics Investigated by Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy

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Sudarshan Seshadri

Advisor: Mark Wewers

Current Position: Analytical Method Validation Scientist at Cytovance Biologics

Thesis: Role of IkappaBzeta and Pyrin as Modulators of Macrophage Innate Immune Function

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Deepti Vikram

Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy

Current Position: Quality Assurance Analyst at Jewelry Television

Thesis: Development of particulate-based EPR oximetry for regional, temporal, and rapid measurements in tissue

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Rui Xiao

Advisor: Michael Zhu

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Florida

Thesis: Activation and regulation of TRP channels

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Xiangyu Yang

Advisor: Michael Knopp

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Medical Physicist at The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Thesis: Quantitative Approaches in MRI with Clinical Applications

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Catalina Alionte-Norman

Advisor: Jack Rall

Current Position: MD at Endocrine Center of Cape Cod, Cape Cod HealthCare

Thesis: Influence of the thin filament calcium activation on muscle force production and rate of contraction in cardiac muscle

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Hari Kamadurai

Advisor: Mark Foster

Current Position: Associate Principal Scientist at Kymera Theraputics

Thesis: Mechanistic insights into catalysis and allosteric enzyme activation in bacteriophage lambda integrase

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Wei Liu

Advisor: Martin Caffrey

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

Thesis: Membrane protein crystallization in the lipid cubic phase: testing hypotheses relating to reconsitution

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Georgeta Mihai

Advisor: Petra Schmalbrock

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

Thesis: Methods for brain iron evaluation in normal aging: T2 and phase measurements at 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla

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Tennille Presley

Advisor: Govindasamy Ilangovan

Current Position: Professor of Physics at Winston Salem State University

Thesis: Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) oximetry as a quantitative tool to measure cellular respiration in pathophysiological conditions

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Rakhi Rajan

Advisor: Charles Bell

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma

Thesis: Structural and functional studies of the bacterial RECA protein

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Chaitanya Saxena

Advisor: Dongping Zhong

Current Position: CEO at Shantani Proteome Analytics Pvt. Ltd.

Thesis: Ultrafast dynamics of energy and electron transfer in DNA-photolyase

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Arun Sridhar

Advisor: Cynthia Carnes

Current Position: Director & Head of Disease Biology at Galvani Bioelectronics

Thesis: Regulation of cardiac voltage gated potassium currents in health and disease

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Balbir Thomas

Advisor: David Terman

Thesis: A model of mitochondrial calcium induced calcium release

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Guoning Hu

Advisor: DeLiang Wang

Current Position: Principal Research Engineer at Lithium Technologies

Thesis: Monaural speech organization and segregation

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Rinku Jain

Advisor: Michael Chan

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thesis: Insights into the roles of metals in biology: biochemical and structural characterization of two bacterial and one archaeak metallo-enzyme

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Guang Jia

Advisor: Michael Knopp

Current Position: Associate Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University

Thesis: MR imaging biomarkers for benign prostatic hyperplasia pharmacotherapy

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Hyun Lee

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Current Position: Research Associate Professor at University of Illinois, Chicago

Thesis: Structural and functional characterization of the yeast DUN1 FHA domain

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Yuheng Li

Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh & Mario Lauria

Current Position: Principal Clinical Database Developer at Covidien Medtronic

Thesis: Searching for remotely homologous sequences in protein databases with hybrid PSI-blast

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Yohann Reynold Misquitta

Advisor: Martin Caffrey

Current Position: Scientist II at Adimab, LLC

Thesis: The rational design of monoacylglycerols for use as matrices for the crystallization of membrane proteins

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Sathish Rajamani

Advisor: Richard Sayre

Current Position: Senior Project Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thesis: Small molecule signaling and detection systems in protists and bacteria

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Madalina Tivarus

Advisor: David Beversdorf

Current Position: Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences and Neuroscience at University or Rochester Medical Center

Thesis: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of language processing and its pharmacological modulation

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Kun-Yun Yang

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Current Position: Fellow Researcher at Caltech

Thesis: The effects of the N(5) hydrogen bond and the re-face positive charge on the redox properties of flavin in the methylotrophic bacterium W3A1 electron transfer flavoprotein

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Praveen Mahadev Bahadduri

Advisor: James Dalton

Current Position: Principal Scientist at Sanofi

Cheng Chang

Advisor: Peter Swaan

Current Position: Associate Director at Pfizer, Inc.

Thesis: In silico approaches for studying transporter and receptor structure-activity relationships

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Esmael Haddadian

Advisor: Elizabeth Gross

Current Position: Associate Instructional Professor at University of Chicago

Thesis: Brownian dynamics study of cytochrome f / Rieske interactions with cytochrome c6 and plastocyanin

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Shawn Hamidinia

Advisor: Douglas Pfeiffer

Current Position: Patent Attorney at Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.

Thesis: Lead transport properties of carboxylic acid and synthetic ionophores

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Clara Isaza

Advisor: Michael Chan

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Ponce Health Sciences University

Thesis: Biochemical and structural characterization of novel metalloprotein sensors and carboxypeptidases

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Srisunder Subramaniam

Advisor: Mark Foster

Current Position: CEO at VentureStudio, Ahmedabad University

Thesis: Studies of conformational changes and dynamics accompanying substrate recognition, allostery and catalysis in bacteriophage lambda integrase

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Carmen Chirita

Advisor: Jeff Kuret

Current Position: Lead Business Analyst at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

Thesis: Clarification of tau fibrillization pathway in vitro implications to Alzheimers disease

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Theresa Kannanayakal

Advisor: Jeff Kuret

Current Position: Project Manager-Contractor at Janssen Research & Development, LLC

Thesis: Casein kinase 1 isoforms in degenerative disorders

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Mihaela Necula

Advisor: Jeff Kuret

Current Position: Director of Program Management at Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP)

Thesis: Tau and alpha-synuclein fibrillization in vitro: lessons from surfactant inducers and small molecule inhibitors

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Chastity Shaffer-Whitaker

Advisor: Petra Schmalbrock

Current Position: Patent Attorney at U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Law Office, Intellectual Property Division

Thesis: Evaluation of Hahn, CPMG, and combined spin echo analysis at 8 Tesla MRI

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Antara Banerjee

Advisor: Peter Swaan

Current Position:Associate Director, Immunology Research and Group Leader at Immuno Biologics, Takeda

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Surasak Siripornadulsil

Advisor: Richard Sayre

Current Position: Khon Kaen University Department of Microbiology (Medicine)

Thesis: Molecular characterization of heavy metal metabolism in transgenic microalgae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii)

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Junpeng Deng

Advisor: M. Sundaralingam

Current Position: Professor at Oklahoma State University

Thesis: X-ray crystallographic studies on RNA Tetraplexes and duplexes containing double bulges

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Paul Klawitter

Advisor: Thomas Clanton

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University

Thesis: The role of antioxidants in cardiac and skeletal muscle during conditions of energy deficit

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Li Zuo

Advisor: Thomas Clanton

Current Position: Associate Professor at University of Maine, Presque Isle Campus

Thesis: Molecular Mechanisms of Stress-induced Reactive Oxygen Species Formation in Skeletal Muscle

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Cristian Dumitrescu

Advisor: Ruth Altschuld

Current Position: Product Line Manager at Avery Dennison Printer Solutions Division

Thesis: Excitation-contraction coupling and mechanical restitution in normal and failing rat hearts

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Brian Palmer

Current Position: Director of Data Science at Gardner Business Media, Inc.

Thesis: Effects of low dose ACE inhibition with benazepril on myocardial beta-adrenergic function and profile in canine long term tachypacing-induced heart failure

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Eun-Young Choi

Advisor: Charles Hille

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at NIH

Thesis: Studies on the reaction mechanism of the reductive half-reaction of Xanthine Oxidase

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Hee-Jung Kim

Advisor: Mark Foster

Current Position: Chemical Abstracts

Thesis: Studies of AD5 E3-14.7K, an Adenoviral Inhibitor of TNF receptor- and FAS-mediated Apoptosis ; II. investigation of interactions between Cyclin-dependent Kinase 4 and tumor suppressor p16(INK4A)

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Jack Mullen

Advisor: Elizabeth Gross

Current Position: Research Associate Agricultural Biology at Colorado State University

Thesis: A study of the effects of gravity on the growth patterns of Arabidopsis roots using image analysis techniques

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William Ray

Advisor: Charles Daniels

Current Position: Principal Investigator/Associate Professor at Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University

Thesis: Patterns, analyses, correlations. Remote Archive Testbed. The PACRAT system's design, development and applications

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Svetlana Tikunova

Advisor: Ruth Altschuld

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Thesis: Studies of Calcium and Magnesium binding and exchange with mutants of Troponin C and Calmodulin and characterizing the intrereactions of Calmodulin with TRP Calcium Channels

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Yong Xiong

Advisor: M. Sundaralingam

Current Position: Professor Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University School of Medicine

Thesis: X-ray crystallographic studies on DNA-RNA hybrids and duplexes containing single bulges

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Shumin Bian

Advisor: James Cowan & Elizabeth Gross

Current Position: Associate Research Scientist at Yale Medical School

Thesis: Fe-S proteins: cluster assembly and degradation

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Fu-Chung Chang

Advisor: Richard Swenson

Current Position: Biotechnology Professional

Thesis: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies of hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions in the flavodoxins from Desulfovibrio vulgaris and Clostridium beijerinckii

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Douglas Pearson, Jr.

Advisor: Elizabeth Gross

Current Position: Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Tusculum University

Thesis: Brownian dynamics study of the interaction between cytochrome f and mobile electron transfer proteins

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Allen Mitchell Phelps

Advisor: James Dalton

Current Position: Associate Professor Director, Pharmacoanalytical Shared Resource Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemist at The Ohio State University

Thesis: Novel approaches for characterizing the riboflavin transport and trafficking mechanism and its potential as a target in breast cancer

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Alexander Nikolay Starodub

Advisor: Jackie Wood

Current Position: Oncologist, MD at Riverside Peninsula Cancer Institute and Infusion Center

Thesis: Ionic channels in intestinal neurons

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Oscar Alzate

Advisor: Donald Dean

Current Position: Science Writer at Grant Engine

Thesis: Structural and functional studies on the Bacillus Thuringiensis Cry1Ab (delta)-endotoxin and its membrane bound state to Manduca Sexta brush border membrane vesicles

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Chi-Fon Chang

Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai

Current Position: Research Specialist at Academia Sinica

Thesis: Studies in protein folding: understanding helix backbone interactions and the structural characterization of a compact domain

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Baocheng Pan

Advisor: M. Sundaralingam

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-sen University

Thesis: X-ray crystallographic studies on oligonucleotide structures containing non-watson-crick base pairs

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Mahesh Narayan

Advisor: Lawrence Berliner

Current Position: Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Texas at El Paso

Thesis: Functional characterization of (beta)-lactoglobulin; studies of free radical and reactive oxygen species in model and biological systems

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Exing Wang

Advisor: Douglas Pfeiffer

Current Position: Associate Director, Optical Imaging Facility and Associate Professor/Research in Cell Systems and Anatomy at UT San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Thesis: Multilinear analysis in fluorescence & ion transport by ionophores

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