Angela Balliano

B.S. Nazareth C, 2007
Advisor:  Hayes, J.

Brenda Cadiz-Rivera

B.S. University of Puerto Rico, 2006
Advisor:  Bulger, M.
"CLN3 mRNA, a new approach to studying batten disease"

Tamara Caterino

B.S. St. John Fisher College, 2002
Advisor:  Hayes, J.
"Molecular determinants of linker histone CTD binding to nucleosomes"

Keith Connolly

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

Kimberly Dean

B.S. St. Louis University, 2002
Advisor:  Grayhack, E.
"Influence of synonymous codon usage on protein expression"

Jennifer DeAngelis

B.S. Connecticut College, 2006
Advisor:  Fay, P.
"Mechanisms for catalytic inactivation of FVIIIa by APC"

Michael DeRan

B.S. St. Bonaventure U, 2004
Advisor:  Zhao, J./Hayes, J.
"Regulation of DNA double-strand break repair by NPAT"

Suresh DeSilva

B.S. U Colombo, 2003
Advisor:  Bowers, W./Bulger, M.
"Extending the transposable capacity of the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system using the Herpes simplex virus (HSV)/SB amplicon vector platform"

Joshua Dewe

B.S. St. Bonaventure U, 2008
Advisor:  Phizicky, E.

Marina Feigenson

M.A. Tel-Aviv University, 2008
Advisor:  Gorbunova, V./Hayes, J.

Rozzy Finn

B.A. Simons Rock College of Bard, 2004
Advisor:  Pearce, D.
"Altered glutamate receptor function in cerebellar granule cells isolated from Cln3∆ex7/8 knock-in mice."

Kriti Gaur

B.S. Clark U, 2004
Advisor:  Li, W./Hayes, J.
"Functional characterization of tumor suppressor Birt-Hogg-Dube (BHD) 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.
"Loss of the ER stress sensor protein, BiP, in hyperoxia does not activate the classic ER stress response"

Jason Gloor

B.S. University of Colorado Boulder, 1994
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"Bloom helicase effectively resolves inactive intermediates during DNA replication"

Chenguang Gong

M.S. Nanjing University, 2006
Advisor:  Maquat, L.
"Staufen1-mediated gene regulation"

Ryan Henry

B.A. Johns Hopkins, 2005
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"The role of Pif1 helicase in eukaryotic DNA replication"

Christopher Hine

B.S. Youngstown State University, 2004
Advisor:  Gorbunova, V./Bulger, M.
"Use of the Rad51 promoter for targeted anti-cancer therapy and an introduction of SIRT6 into the complicated world of DNA double strand break repair"

David Hoffman

B.A. SUNY Potsdam, 2003
Advisor:  Brookes, P./Munger, J.
"Different sensitivities to oxygen of the major reactive oxygen species generating sites in the mitochondrial electron transport chain"

Chao Huang

M.S. CLife Sci/Beijing Normal U, 2004
Advisor:  Yu_YiTao.html')">Yu, Y.
"Telomerase RNA is 2í-O-methylated in saccharomyces cerevisiae"

Guangze Jin

B.S. Jilin U, 1999
Advisor:  Butler, J.S.

David Johnson

B.S. SUNY Oswego, 2005
Advisor:  Nehrke, K./Munger, J.
"The involvement of the mitochondrial GTPase EAT-3 in mitochondrial dynamics and pH homeostasis in C. elegans."

Athena Kantartzis

B.S. Geneva College, 2007
Advisor:  Yu, Y.
"Two conserved pseudouridines within rRNA influence cap-independent translation in yeast"

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, X./Hayes, J.
"The roles of saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins Hho1p and Esc2p in transcriptional silencing"

Antony Leonard

B. Tech Anna Univ, 2006
Advisor:  Ward, B./Hayes, J.

Joseph Liberman

B.S. Evergreen State College, 2009
First Year

Geoffrey Lippa

B.S. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2007
Advisor:  Wedekind, J.
"Understanding the structural basis of binding between the antiretroviral protein APOBEC3G and HIV-1 viral infectivity factor (Vif)"

Ning Liu

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

Xi Luo

B.S. Nankai University, 2007
Advisor:  O'Keefe, R.

Chun Mathers

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

Jessica McArdle

B.S. Nazareth College, 2007
Advisor:  Munger, J.
"Uncovering the mechanisms by which human cytomegalovirus manipulates host cell metabolism"

William McDougall

B.S. Buffalo State College, 2008
Advisor:  Smith, H.

Adam Miller

B.A. Fort Hays State University, 2007
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"Repair and maintenance of DNA telomere ends"

Kevin Murphy

B.S. U Rochester, 2008
Advisor:  Hayes, J.

Sharon Pepenella

B.S. SUNY Geneseo , 2007
Advisor:  Hayes, J.
"Role of histone tail domains in the formation of higher order chromatin structure"

Jason Pike

B.S. Cornell University, 2005
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"Pif1 directs okazaki fragments to the two nuclease pathway for flap removal"

Melanie Preston

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"

David Rabayev

B.A. Baruch C, 2007
Advisor:  Bulger, M.

Waqarun Rashid

B.A. Saint Anselm College, 2009
First Year

Sean Rigby

B.A. University of New Mexico, 2004
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"Strand transfer during HIV reverse transcription initiates and completes over short distances, and is facilitated by chaperoning and cleavage of RNA"

Timothy Rutkowski

B.S. Roberts Wesleyan College, 2008
First Year

Jason Salter

B.S. SUNY Brockport, 2002
Advisor:  Wedekind, J.
"Purification of parts of a vif-ElonginB-ElonginC-Cullin5 E3 ubiquitin ligase complex that targets a human antiretroviral cytidine deaminase for proteasomal degradation"

Karyn Schmidt

B.S. University of Rochester, 2007
Advisor:  Butler, J.S.
"The yeast model for batten disease: examining the role of Sdo1p and phospholipid composition"

Wen Shen

B.S. Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2007
Advisor:  Bambara, R.
"Factors that determine hotspots for recombination during HIV-1 replication"

Sarah Sobczynski

B.S. St. John Fisher College, 2008
Advisor:  Phizicky, E.

Cody Spencer

B.S. SUNY Oswego, 2006
Advisor:  Munger, J.
"Elucidating the mechanisms of human cytomegalovirus induced activation of fatty acid synthesis"

David Stephenson

JD Emory University, 2003
Advisor:  Yu, Y.
"A functional role for pseudouridylation in splicing"

Amir Taslimi

B.S. RIT, 2005
Advisor:  Dumont, M.
"Identification 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"

Jiashi Wang

B.S. China Agricultural University, 2009
First Year

Wenli Wang

B.S. Nanjing University, 2009
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.
"Functional role of conditionally induced pseudouridine in yeast U2 snRNA"

Yuexin Xu

B.S. Nanjing Normal University, 2009
First Year

Jeffrey Zuber

M.S. U Michigan Ann Arbor, 2005
Advisor:  Dumont, M.
"Developing screens to identify mutations that modulate the stability of Ste2p, a G protein coupled receptor in s. cerevisiae"