Angela Aggrey

B.S. Ramapo College, 2007
Advisor:  Fay, P.

Erik Allman

B.S. Millersville U, 2008
First Year

Melanie Baker

B.S. U Scranton, 2004
Advisor - Phizicky, E.
"In vivo analysis of the functions of tRNAHis guanylyltransferase (Thg1) and of the G-1 residue it adds to tRNAHis"

Angela Balliano

B.S. Nazareth C, 2007
First Year

Lindsay Burwell

B.A. State University of New York at Potsdam, 2003
Advisor:  Brookes, P./Gunter, T.
"The Protective Effect of Mitochondrial S-nitrosation in Cardiac Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

Brenda Cadiz-Rivera

B.S. University of Puerto Rico, 2006
Advisor:  Pearce, D.

Kevin Callahan

B.S. Gettysburg College, 2000
Advisor:  Butler, S.
"Exosome-independent enhancement of Rrp6p RNA degradation by the TRAMP complex"

Tamara Caterino

B.S. St. John Fisher College, 2002
Advisor - Hayes, J.
"Investigation of the binding of linker histone H1.1"

Sandeep Chadha

M.S. Syracuse University, 2006
Advisor -
"Contributions in the 558-Loop of Factor VIIIa A2 Subunit to Interactions with Factor IXa in Factor Xase"

Chun Chen

M.S. Fudan University, 2003
Advisor - Yu, Y.
"Pseudouridylation of pre-mRNA affects splicing "

Hope Cole

B.S. State University of New York at Geneseo, 2001
Advisor - Hayes, J.
"Uracil DNA Glycosylase Activity on Uracil in Nucleosomes"

Keith Connolly

B.S. University of Northern Iowa, 2005
Advisor:  Culver, G.
"Functional significance of the KsgA/Dim1p enzyme family in ribosome biogenesis"

Robert Crow

B.S. Eastern New Mexico University, 2007
Advisor:  Phizicky, E.

Kimberly Dean

B.S. St. Louis University, 2002
Advisor:  Grayhack, E.

Jennifer DeAngelis

B.S. Connecticut College, 2006
Advisor - Fay, P.
"The role of P3-P4í residues in facilitating APC cleavage of factor FVIII A1 domain "

Michael DeRan

B.S. St. Bonaventure U, 2004
Advisor:  Zhao, J./Hayes, J.
"Elucidating the role of NPAT in histone gene transcription and the DNA damage response"

Suresh DeSilva

B.S. U Colombo, 2003
Advisor:  Bowers, W./Bulger, M.
"Deriving a HSV/Sleeping Beauty Amplicon Vector Platform Competent in Site-Targeted Integration "

Joshua Dewe

B.S. St. Bonaventure U, 2008
First Year

Marina Feigenson

M.A. Tel-Aviv University, 2008
First Year

Rozzy Finn

B.A. Simons Rock College of Bard, 2004
Advisor:  Pearce, D.

George Fromm

B.S. Coastal Carolina U, 2000
Advisor:  Bulger, M.
"Histone Modification Domains: Determining Their Role In The Regulation Of The Murine b-Globin Genes"

Chad Galloway

B.S. University of Rochester, 2003
Advisor - Smith, H.
"Dysregulation of APOBEC-1 Complementation Factor in a Type II Diabetic State"

Lu Gao

M.S. Beijing Normal U, 2002
Advisor - Bambara, R.
"Apparent Defects in Processive DNA Synthesis, Strand Transfer, and Primer Elongation of M184 Mutants of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Derive Solely from a dNTP Interaction Defect"

Kriti Gaur

B.S. Clark U, 2004
Advisor:  Li, W./Hayes, J.
"Functional analysis of tumor suppressor Birt-Hogg-Dube gene in Drosophila"

Amanda Getty

B.A. Skidmore College, 2004
Advisor - Pearce, D.
"Understanding CLN3 function: possible cell type specificity of the Nonmuscle Myosin IIB-CLN3 interaction"

Jennifer Gewandter

B.S. SUNY Geneseo , 2004
Advisor:  O' Reilly, M./Bambara, R.
"Characterization of SMG1 response to oxidative damage"

Jason Gloor

B.S. University of Colorado Boulder, 1994
Advisor:  Bambara, R.

Chenguang Gong

M.S. Nanjing University, 2006
Advisor - Maquat, L.
"Evidence of competition between Staufen1-mediated and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathways"

Ryan Henry

B.A. Johns Hopkins, 2005
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"The Role of Pif1 Helicase in DNA Replication"

Christopher Hine

B.S. Youngstown State University, 2004
Advisor:  Gorbunova, V./Bulger, M..
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David Hoffman

B.A. SUNY Potsdam, 2003
Advisor:  Brookes, P./Pearce, D.
"Differences of [O2] Dependence on ROS Production for Sites within the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain"

Chao Huang

M.S. CLife Sci/Beijing Normal U, 2004
Advisor - Yu, Y.
"Gene Silencing by RNA Guided 2í-O-Methylation in Pre-mRNA "

Guangze Jin`

B.S. Jilin U, 1999
First Year

David Johnson

B.S. SUNY Oswego, 2005
Advisor:  Nehrke, K./Pearce, D.
"Regulation of cytoplasmic pH in a genetic model organism: Implications for fat storage and metabolic gene expression"

Athena Kantartzis

B.S. Geneva College, 2007
Advisor:  Yu, Y.

John Karijolich

B.A. Ripon College, 2005
Advisor - Yu, Y.
"Translational defects in yeast deficient in RNA-guided pseudouridylation: Implications for X-Linked Dyskeratosis Congenita."

Holly Kuzmiak

B.A. Drew University, 2004
Advisor:  Bi, Xin/J. Hayes
"Analyses of long range interactions between regulatory elements of gene expression in eukaryotes"

John Lapek

B.S. Penn State University, 2005
First Year

Antony Leonard

B. Tech Anna Univ, 2006
First Year

Geoffrey Lippa

B.S. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2007
Advisor:  Wedekind, J.

Ning Liu

B.S. Northeast Normail University, 2000
Advisor - Hayes, J.
"The mechanism of ySWI/SNF-catalyzed nucleosome sliding"

Jessica McArdle

B.S. Nazareth College, 2007
Advisor:  Munger, J.

William McDougall

B.S. Buffalo State College, 2008
First Year

Adam Miller

B.A. Fort Hays State University, 2007
Advisor:  Bambara, R.

Kevin Murphy

B.S. U Rochester, 2008
First Year

Jennifer Newell

B.A. Skidmore College, 2004
Advisor - Fay, P.
"Contribution of the a2 domain acidic residues in the mechanism of thrombin activation of factor VIII"

Sharon Pepenella

B.S. SUNY Geneseo , 2007
Advisor:  Hayes, J.

(Paloma) Juanita Perera

M.S. S Dakota St U, 2004
Advisor:  Sun, Y./Hayes, J.
"Regulation of ACTR by the Synovial Sarcoma Oncoprotein SYT-SSX1"

Jason Pike

B.S. Cornell University, 2005
Advisor - Bambara, R.
"Pif1 Directs Okazaki Fragments to the Two Nuclease Pathway for Flap Removal"

David Rabayev

B.A. Baruch C, 2007
First Year

Sean Rigby

B.A. University of New Mexico, 2004
Advisor - Bambara, R.
"A Closer Look at the Hybrid Propagation Step of HIV-1 Invasion-Mediated Strand Transfer"

Jason Salter

B.S. SUNY Brockport, 2002
Advisor - Wedekind, J.
"Reconstruction of Molecular Envelopes by Small Angle X-ray Scattering has Implications for Molecular Modeling of APOBEC3G"

Karyn Schmidt

B.S. University of Rochester, 2007
Advisor:  Pearce, D.

Sabrina Seehafer

B.A. Westminster College, 2003
Advisor - Pearce, D.
"Possible mechanisms of autofluorescent storage material accumulation in Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses"

Madhavika Serasinghe

B.S. UColombo, 2003
Advisor:  Yoon, Y./Gunter, T.
"Identification of short peptide sequences binding to the mitochondrial fission protein hFis1"

Jie Shen

M.S. Nanjing University, 2008
First Year

Wen Shen

B.S. Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2007
Advisor:  Bambara, R.

Shanshan Shi

B.A. OhWesleyan University, 2008
First Year

Sarah Beth Sobczynski

B.S. St.JohnFishr College, 2008
First Year

Min Song

B.S. University of Science & Technology of China, 2003
Advisor - Bambara, R.
"Proximity and Branch Migration Mechanisms in HIV-1 Minus Strand Strong Stop Transfer"

Cody Spencer

B.S. SUNY Oswego, 2006
Advisor:  Munger, J.

David Stephenson

JD Emory University, 2003
Advisor - Yu, Y.
"A Functional Analysis of Pseudouridylation in Pre-mRNA Splicing "

Jason Stewart

B.S. Brigham Young U, 2003
Advisor - Bambara, R.
"Functional Interactions between Flap Endonuclease 1, Dna2, and RPA on Okazaki Fragment Flaps"

Amir Taslimi

B.S. RIT, 2005
Advisor - Dumont, M.
"Indentification of conformational changes in the helices of G-Protein Coupled Receptors"

Beth Van Winkle

B.S. Rochester Institute of Technology,
Advisor - Gunter, T.
"Exploring the Role of Mitochondria In Alzheimerís Disease"

Kyle Veenema

B.S. Cornell U, 2004
First Year

Joseph Whipple

B.S. SUNY Geneseo , 2005
Advisor - Phizicky, E.
"Investigation of the Met22/Rat1/Xrn1 Mature tRNA Degradation Pathway in S. cerevisiae"

Devin Wolfe

B.S. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2003
Advisor - Pearce, D.
"Btn1p localization is altered by the extracellular environment"

Guowei Wu

M.S. Zhongsan (Sun Yat-sen) University, 2006
Advisor - Yu, Y.
"Study of 2í-O-methylation on yeast U2 snRNA"

Jeffrey Zuber

M.S. U Michigan Ann Arbor, 2005
Advisor - Dumont, M.
"Identifying Mutations that Result in Thermal Stability in Ste2"