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Almost all of the students graduating from the Ph.D. programs go on to postdoctoral training at leading institutions in order to expand their experience before moving to independent research positions in academic, government settings, or in research oriented corporations.
Recent Graduates, Their Thesis Titles and Postdoctoral Appointments
Jared Benedict
"Elucidating and Characterizing the Interacting Partners of the Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses Proteins"
Kromasil at Eka Chemicals
Ryan Bennett
"A Functional Analysis of the Domains of APOBEC3G Involved in Dimerization, Anti-viral Activity and Cellular Localization"
Oyagen, Inc.
Patrick Brandt
"A Role for the Human Rad9-Rad1-Hus1 DNA Clamp Complex in DNA Repair"
National Institute of Environmental Health
Irina Chernyakov
"Degradation of Several Hypomodified Mature tRNA Species in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae is Mediated by Met22, and the 5’-3’ Exonucleases Rat1 and Xrn1"
Cornell University
Jason Hoskins
"Analysis of the Mechanisms of 5-Fluorouracil Toxicity in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"
University of Rochester, Department of Neurology
Lakmal Kotelawala
"Identification of Yeast tRNASer Um44 2'-O Methyltransferase (Trm44) and Demonstration of a Role of Degree Trm44 in Maintaining Levels of Specific tRNASer Species"
University of California, Davis
Celeste MacElrevey
"Crystallographic Analysis of a Small Catalytic RNA and Structural Insights into the Enzymes and Substrates of RNA/DNA Editing"
WIL Research Laboratories
Marie Rossi
"Distinguishing the Pathways of Primer Removal during Eukaryotic Okazaki Fragment Maturation"
National Institute of Environmental Health
Fatbardha Varfaj
"Contributions of Exosite Interactions and Active Site Docking to Activated Protein C-Catalyzed Inactivation of Factor VIIIa"
University of California, San Francisco
Sayura Aoyagi
"Investigation of the mechanism of nucleosome remodeling by the human SWI/SNF and Xenopus Mi-2 chromatin remodeling complexes"
National Institutes of Health
Anshika Bajaj
"Ligand Binding and Receptor Activation in a G Protein Coupled Receptor in Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Albany Medical College
Xi Chen
"Investigation of mitochondrial protein degradation using mutationally altered forms of yeast Cytochrome c"
Texas A & M University
Yan Chen
"The mechanism of minus strand stop transfer during HIV-1 reverse transciption"
University of Connecticut Health Center
Qinshan Gao
"The roles of nuclear cap-binding complex in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) and nuclear mRNA degradation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Weifeng Gu
"Identification of the Essential Yeast Gene THG1 Encoding the Unusual tRNAHisGuanylytransferase, and Elucidation of Multiple Consequences of Thg1p PostDepletion in vivo"
University of Massachusetts
Jing Huang
"Design of Estrogen Response Element (ERE) Binding Proteins to Study the Roles of ERE-containing Genes in Cell Proliferation and the Functional Differences between ER Alpha and ER Beta"
The Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Hui-Kao
"The mechanism of primer removal in Okazaki fragment processing"
The John Hopkins University
Letian Kuai
"Degradation of mRNA in the Nucleus and Polyadenylation of Noncoding RNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuan Liu
"Study on roles of eukaryotic Flap Endonuclease 1 (FEN1) in maintaining stability of repeat sequences during RNA replication"
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
Xiaoju Ma
"Identification of Pseudouridylases Responsible for the Formation of Pseudouridines (psi) in Yeast (S. cerevisiae) U2 snRNA"
Harvard Medical School
Mujib Rahman
"Studying the roles of androgen receptor (AR) coactivators in prostate cancer progression using dominant-negative mutants and RNA interference"
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Tamara Ranalli
"Analysis of mammalian base excision repair: Role of AP endonuclease and replication protein A"
Roswell Park
Matthew Renda
"The role of tRNALys3 in the termination of plus-strand strong-stop DNA of HIV-1; A new target for therapeutic intervention"
Yale University
Neil Shull
"Characterization of a potential metabolic pathway for Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose-1'-2' Cyclic Phosphate, a product of tRNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
University of Rochester
Barry Thrash
"Control of Keratinocyte Differentiation and Skin Formation by AKT/Protein Kinase B: A Survival Signal for Stratification"
University of Rochester
Samson Tom
"The role of proliferating cell nuclear antigen in the regulation and catalysis of DNA replication and repair"
Vion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Huan (Frank) Wang
"Biochemistry and Physiology of Phospholipase C(epsilon)"
University of Rochester
Michael White
"Expression and Solubilization of Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Membrane Proteins for Functional and Structural Genomics"
Whasing University
Kefang Xie
"Structural and Functional Analysis of APOBEC-Related Editing Enzymes, and the Structural Basis of Antibody Specificity in Blood Type Recognition "
The Johns Hopkins University
Feng Xing
"A family of Dihydrouridine synthases with different specificities responsible for modification of Cytoplasmic tRNAs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
University of Rochester
Ping Yi
"Studies on mechanisms of estrogen receptor subtype-specific transcription regulation"
Baylor College of Medicine
Chunyang Zheng
"Intra- and Inter-nucleosomal protein-DNA interactions of the core histone tail domains in a model Dinucleosome and Oligonucleosome array"
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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