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Molecular and Human Genetics

Houston, Texas

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
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Postdoctoral Research Associates

Ismael Al-Ramahi
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Lab: Botas

Yangjin Bae
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Lab: Brendan Lee
Research Interests: Understanding the function of microRNA role in bone development.

Samarth Bhatt
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Lab: Stankiewicz

Philippe Campeau
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Lab: Brendan Lee
Research Interests: Treatment of inborn errors of metabolism. Role of microRNAs in skeletal development.

Xuefeng Chen
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Lab: Ira

Woo-Hyun Chung
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Lab: Ira
Research Interests: Function of novel proteins in recombinational repair of DNA damage in yeast.

Maria De Haro
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Lab: Botas
Research Interests: Characterization of genetic modifiers of CUG-induced toxicity in a Drosophila model of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1.

Taraka Donti
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Lab: Graham

Serkan Erdin
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Lab: Lichtarge
Research Interests: Functional annotation of proteins and protein-protein interactions.

Adriano Flora
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Lab: Zoghbi

Claudia Fonseca
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Lab: Lupski

Rodrigo Galhardo
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Lab: Rosenberg
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis.

Wenli Gu
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Lab: Lupski
Research Interests: Pathomechanisms of Smith-Magenis and Potocki-Lupski syndromes.

Yanghong Gu
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Lab: Nelson
Research Interests: Functional study of FMR2, the gene associated with FRAXE mental retardation; mouse models of FMR2 and its paralogs.

Priyatansh Gurha
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Lab: Rodriguez

Jing Han
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Lab: Zoghbi

Eryong Huang
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Lab: Shaulsky

Paymaan Jafar-Nejad
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Lab: Zoghbi

Manish Jaiswal
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Lab: Bellen

Anbu Karani Adikesavan
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Lab: Lichtarge
Research Interests: Evolution-directed analysis of protein functional surfaces.

Bettina Keller
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Lab: Brendan Lee

Bum-Jun Kim
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Lab: Scott

Soeun Kim
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Lab: Beaudet

Zhihong Li
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Lab: Graham

Janghoo Lim
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Lab: Zoghbi
Research Interests: Studying the molecular genetic basis of the neurodegenerative disease SCA1 using different approaches (mouse model, transcriptome, protein-protein interactome analysis).

Dongxu Lin
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Lab: Hastings
Research Interests: Stress-induced structural changes on the chromosome of bacteria

Rhonald Lua
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Lab: Lichtarge
Research Interests: Evolution-directed analysis of protein functional surfaces. Development of Java and Python programs for analyzing Evolutionary Trace results.

Yewei Ma
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Lab: Wong
Research Interests: Understanding of the role of mitochondrial genetics and function in diseases.

David Marciano
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Lab: Lichtarge
Research Interests: Identification and inhibition of protein-protein interactions involved in the emergence of antibiotic resistance.

Daniel Morgan
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Lab: Lichtarge
Research Interests: Evolution-directed discovery and rational design of peptides that modulate protein functional sites.

Ralf Nehring
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Lab: Rosenmund

Shashank Pataskar
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Lab: Nelson
Research Interests: Making conditional knockout mouse model for FXR2 gene (Fragile X related protein 2).

Davut Pehlivan
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Lab: Lupski

Richard Person
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Lab: Beaudet

Hector Sandoval
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Lab: Bellen
Research Interests: Studying the regulatory mechanisms of mitochondrial quality control in neurons undergoing neurodegeneration.

Chandan Shee
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Lab: Rosenberg

Masataka Suzuki
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Lab: Brendan Lee

Koen Venken
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Lab: Bellen
Research Interests: Technology development for Drosophila.

Francesco Vetrini
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Lab: Ng

Angela Wilkins
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Lab: Lichtarge

Bonney Wilkinson
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Lab: Justice
Research Interests: Molecular characterization of the role of Parkin co-regulated gene (Pacrg) in sperm differentiation and sperm tail formation in vertebrates.

Tao Yang
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Lab: Brendan Lee

Jianhui Yao
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Lab: He
Research Interests: Investigation of centromeric chromatin structure in fission yeast.

Feng Zhang
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Lab: Lupski
Research Interests: Genome architecture, rearrangements and genomic disorders.

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