T32 AWARDEES
Since 1999, the Molecular Biology Graduate Program has been funded by a T32 Training Grant from NIGMS. Thanks to NIH funding each year, we award ten T32 pre-doctoral fellowships.
Meet the MOLB T32 Awardees for 2023-2024
Undergraduate: BS, Genomics and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 2021
Research: Investigating the role of Vgll3 as a transcriptional regulator in embryonic hindbrain cell fate pathways
Lab: Charles Sagerstrom
Undergraduate: BA, Biochemistry, Grinnell College, 2017
Research: I study the maternal to zygotic transition, an important early developmental process where all of the maternally deposited gene products in the egg are replaced by zygotic gene products. Specifically, I’m interested in the mechanisms of maternal protein clearance
Lab: Olivia Rissland
Undergraduate: BS, MCDB, University of Michigan, 2020
Research: The role of T cell accumulation and clonal expansion in the progression of an obesity-associated chronic liver diseases called MASH (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis).
Lab: Matthew Burchill
Undergrad: BS, Biochemistry, University of Arizona, 2019
Research: Investigating the oxidized low density lipoprotein mediated decrease in liver lymphatic capillary permeability that results from chronic liver disease progression.
Lab: Matthew Burchill
Undergraduate: BA, Molecular Biology, Pomona College, 2018
Research: Focus on the application of novel molecular tools to detect and characterize antigen storage within lymphatic stromal cells
Lab: Jay Hesselberth & Beth Tamburini
Undergraduate: BS, Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, 2022
Research: Investigating the molecular mechanisms of genome instability and evolution in S. cerevisiae.
Lab: Lydia R. Heasley
Undergraduate: BS, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2016
Research: Investigating the effect of ethanol intoxication and burn injury on pulmonary antimicrobial peptides and designing stem-cell-based therapeutic interventions to treat lung inflammation.
Lab: Elizabeth Kovacs
Undergraduate: BS, Molecular Biology, University of Denver, 2016
Research: Uncovering how the regulation of syntaphilin contributes towards mitochondrial dynamics.
Lab: Cecilia Caino
Undergraduate: BS, Molecular Biology, Colorado College, 2019
Research: Kate is focused on translation regulation in cancer metastasis. Specifically, she is investigating the role of translation initiation factor eIF3e/d in selectively regulating mRNA translation in hypoxia.
Lab: Neel Mukherjee & Heide Ford
Undergraduate: BS, Physiology, UC San Diego, 2021
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Suja Jagannathan
Undergraduate: BS, Cell & Molecular Biology, George Fox University, 2021
Research: Coming Soon.
Lab: Rytis Prekeris
Meet the MOLB T32 INCLUDE Appointees for 2023-2024
Undergraduate: BS, Biological Sciences, Florida State University, 2017; MS Cell and Molecular Biology, Florida State University 2020
Research: Characterizing and detecting cancers through the use of subnucleosomal and nucleosomal cell-free DNA found in blood plasma.
Lab: Srinivas Ramachandran
Undergraduate: BS, Cell & Molecular Biology, Western Washington University, 2019
Research: Uncovering the mechanism of mother centriole uncapping defects in trisomy 21.
Lab: Chad Pearson
Undergraduate: BS, Biology, Quest University, 2017
Research: Investigating the effect of polyglutamylation on microtubule severing during midbody abscission
Lab: Rytis Prekeris