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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

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