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Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics
Wayne State University School of Medicine
540 E. Canfield
Detroit, MI 48201

 
 



Past Members of the Lab

Eugenius SBC Ang, Research Assistant - entered a Ph.D. program at Yale University

Mary Bolin (Grant), Graduate Student

Michael White, Research Assistant

Maria Cypher Research Associate.

Kyle Gardenour Research Associate.

Anton-Scott Goustin Research Associate.

Keith Gulyas ( 1963 - 2007 ) Research Associate.

Gouzhen Liu Research Associate

Jiayou Liu Research Associate

Bernie Mangiola Research Assistant.

Past Students

Divya Chandran, M.S. 2006

Jennifer Fonfara, M.S. 2000

Jennifer worked on developing methods to make it easier to isolate interaction mutations and interaction suppressor mutations for proteins like Drosophila cyclin D.

Mikhail G. Kolonin, Ph.D., 2000

Current Address: University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center mkolonin(at)mail.mdanderson.org.

Mikhail studied a novel cyclin, Drosophila cyclin J, which may play a role in regulating the earliest division cycles during embryogenesis. He also helped develop the peptide aptamer approach for analyzing the function of proteins and and specific protein interactions (see, e.g., Kolonin and Finley, 1998, Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 95, 14266-14271 ).

Nishi Patel, B.S., M.S. Research Assistant, E-mail: npatel(at)genetics.wayne.edu

Drosophila protein interaction maps; cyclin J

Jinhui (Julie) Zhong, Ph.D., 2003.

Julie developed amd tested a high throughput yeast two-hybrid strategy to construct large protein interaction maps PIMs). The strategy is currently being used in the PIM projects for Drosophila and bacterial pathogens.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Tom Limjindaporn, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

Clem Stanyon, Ph.D. Research Associate

Weili Zhou, M.D, Research Associate (Postdoctoral fellow)

Rotators

Josef Cadwell, Undergraduate, Biology Department

Raymond Esper, Graduate Student, MBG

Rami Khoury, Graduate Student, MBG

Suzhao Li, Graduate Student, BMB

Amelia Quayle, Graduate Student, MBG

Subhadra Ramanathan, Graduate Student, MBG

Ramaswamy Sharma, Graduate Student, MBG

Qing Sun, Graduate Student, Pathology

Lei Wang, Graduate Student, MBG

Xiaoju Wang, Graduate Student, MBG

Zhan Yin (Patrick), Graduate Student, MBG

Sungpil Yoon, Graduate Student, MBG

Ke Zhou, Graduate Student, MBG


Summer Students

Vikram Chawa, Summer 2005. CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).

Meghan Hurt, Summer 2004, 2005. CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).

Keyunna Castleberry,  Summer 2002.  The Detroit High School Apprenticeship Research Program.  Keyunna attends Lewis Cass Technical High School in Detroit.

Michael Washburn,  Summer 2002. CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Luke Mortensen,  Summer 2002. CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), while an undergraduate at the University of Toledo.

Kory Lavine, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).

Kory worked summers in our lab while he was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester. Kory currently is in the MD/PhD program at Washington University.

Ari J. Firestone, Summer 2000, 2001 CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).

Ari performed summer research in our lab while he was an undergraduate at Carleton College.  Currently, Ari is in the Ph.D. program at Stanford.

Janelle Spratt, Summer 2001 CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).

Janelle performed summer research in our lab while she was an undergraduate at the University of Windsor.

Suzanne Pearson, Summer 1998, CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Suzanne worked in our lab while she was an undergraduate at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Tom Sweder, Summer 1997

Tom left our lab to enter the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois in Chicago.


Lab Visitors

Antonio Baonza, Visiting student from Dr. A. Garcia-Bellidoís laboratory in Madrid.

Brent Passer, Ph.D., Dr. Visited while a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NIH. Constructed a yeast two-hybrid interaction library from human peripheral blood NK cells (see libraries).

Wenbo Xu, Ph.D. Former graduate Student in the laboratories of Drs. Michael Shy and John Kamholz. Constructed a yeast two-hybrid interaction library from rat sciatic nerve (see libraries); this was a record-breaking library in terms of the number of independent clones with inserts.


 
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