| Alumni |
Thesis Title |
Current Position |
Yadilette Rivera-Colón
Ph.D. 2013 |
Structural and Biochemical Studies of the Human Lysosomal Enzymes: N-Acetylgalactosamine-6-Sulfate Sulfatase, N-Sulfoglucosamine Sulfohydrolase and β-Galactosidase |
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Mylene Ferrolino
Ph.D. 2013 |
The Unavoidable Threat of Aggregation: Implications for Folding and Function of a Beta-Rich Protein |
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Luis Ramirez-Tapia
Ph.D. 2013 |
Structural Changes that Drive Timed Promoter Release in Transcription Reciprocally Lead to Abortive Instability |
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Reuben Chacko
Ph.D. 2013 |
Design and Development of Nanogels for Small Molecule and siRNA Delivery |
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| David Griffin, Ph.D. 2012 |
Determining Structure and Function in Nanomaterial Biocomposites |
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Daniella Cristina González-Toro
Ph.D. 2012 |
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric Nanostructures for Protein Sensing and Delivery |
Senior Scientist, L'Oréal |
Sam Nicholls
Ph.D. 2012 |
Development and Characterization of Caspase Activatable GFP and a Family of Fluorescent Reporters |
Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurology at Mass General Hospital |
Kristina Giorda
Ph.D. 2012 |
The viroporin activity of VP2, VP3 and VP4 contribute to the SV40 viral life cycle |
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Elih Velazquez
Ph.D. 2012 |
Suicidal & Homicidal Shape Shifters: Allosteric Regulation of Caspase-6 Proteolytic Activity |
Postdoc, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Fabian Romano Chernac
Ph.D. 2012 |
Structural studies of membrane-assembled PopD and PopB, the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type 3 Secretion translocators |
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School |
Kristen Huber
Ph.D. 2012 |
Regulation of Caspase-9 by Natural and Synthetic Inhibitors |
Senior Research Scientist at Signum Biosciences |
Marty Kolewe
Ph.D. 2011 |
Development of plant cell culture processes to produce natural product pharmaceuticals: Characterization, analysis, and modeling of plant cell aggregation |
Postdoc, MIT Division of Health Sciences and Tech |
Cassidy Dobson
Ph.D. 2011 |
Molecular Interactions of the Tick Salivary Protein Salp15 |
Adjunct Professor, Chemistry, St. Cloud State University |
Michael Lartey
Ph.D. 2011 |
Linear and Crosslinked Polymers for Applications in Molecular Delivery and Separation |
Postdoc, National Energy Technology Laboratory, DOE |
Rob Smock
Ph.D. 2011 |
Allosteric Domain Docking in an Hsp70 Molecular Chaperone |
Postdoctoral Fellow, UMass Amherst |
Witold Witkowski
Ph.D. 2011 |
Caspase-7 Loop Conformations as a Means of Allosteric Control |
Scientist, Boston Biomedical |
Siriporn Jiwpanich
Ph.D. 2011 |
Design and Synthesis of a New Class of Self-Cross-Linked Polymer Nanogels |
Senior Product Development Engineer,
3M |
Fe Consolacion
Ph.D. 2011 |
Density Independence of Ligand Affinity and Kinase Activity of Reconstituted Bacterial Chemoreceptors: Insight into Signaling Mechanisms |
Children's Museum, Detroit Science Center |
Sravanti Vaidya
Ph.D. 2011 |
Structure and Function of Caspase-6 |
Assistant Professor, Dayanand Sagar Institution |
Mariel Feliciano
M.S. 2011 |
Photochromic GABA-A receptor activators to perturb memory processes |
QC Sensors Lab Technician,
Seahorse Bioscience |
Ankit Vahia
Ph.D. 2010 |
Functional Tests of Structural Models for Abortive Cycling in T & RNA Polymerase |
Senior Analyst, Bionest Partners |
Andrea Gomez Escudero
Ph.D. 2010
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Using Self Assembling Amphiphilic Nanomaterials to Selectively Extract and Concentrate Peptides for Analysis by Mass Spectrometry |
Research Scientist, Analytical Chemist Ecopetrol |
Vanessa Leah Mendoza
Ph.D. 2010 |
Structural Characterization of the Pre-Amyloid Oligomers of β-2-microglobulin Using Covalent Labeling and Mass Spectrometry |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University School of Medicine |
Daniel Fowler
Ph.D. 2010 |
Quaternary Structure of Chemoreceptors in Active Signaling Complexes Differs from Crystal Structure of Isolated Fragments: Evidence from Solid-state NMR |
Postoctoral Associate, University of Vermont |
Virginie Sjoelund
Ph.D. 2009 |
Retinoic Acid Transfer and Protein-Protein Interaction between the Cellular Retinoic Acid Binding Protein and the Retinoic Acid Receptor Probed by Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry |
Postdoctoral Associate, NIH |
Abigail Guce
Ph.D. 2009 |
Structural and Mechanistic Studies of α-galactosidase A and Pharmacological Chaperones |
Post Doctorate Fellow, UMass Medical School |
Bradley Pearse
Ph.D. 2009 |
The Role of ER Glucosyltransferase in the Quality Control of Glycoprotein Maturation |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School |
Mona Gupta
Ph.D. 2009 |
Toward an understanding of the role of the L1 stalk in translocation by the Escherichia coli ribosome |
Postdoctoral Associate, Microbiology Department, UMass Amherst |
Jenny Maki
Ph.D. 2009 |
The conformational gymnastics of the E. coli SecA molecular machine and its interactions with signal sequences |
Postdoctoral Associate, Tufts University School of Medicine |
Rochelle Arvizo
Ph.D. 2009 |
Applying Surface Modified Gold Nanoparticles to Biological Systems |
Postdoctoral Associate, Mayo Clinic |
Rebecca Breitenkamp
Ph.D. 2009 |
Title Oligopeptide-functionalized graft copolymers: Synthesis and applications in nucleic acid delivery |
Biotechnology Entrepreneur and Consultant, Greater San Diego Area |
Naomi DeLong
Ph.D. 2008 |
PLA-PEO-PLA triblock copolymer hydrogels for soft tissue engineering: Properties, assembly, and structure |
W.L. Gore, Inc. |
Sharon Leitch
Ph.D. 2008 |
Metal Specificity in Nickel Responsive Transcriptional Regulators |
Scientist II
Becton Dickinson |
Anna Marie C. Marcelino
Ph.D. 2008 |
A Tale of Two Turns: Active and Passive Roles in Folding of a b-Clam Protein |
Postdoctoral Scientist,
Rensselaer Polytech Institute's Chemical & Biological Engineering Department |
Metewo Selase Enuameh
Ph.D. 2008 |
The Effects of Weakened Promoter and T7 Lysozyme Binding on the Transition from Initiation to Elongation in T7 RNA Polymerase |
Postdoc, UMass Medical School, Worcester |
Sarvesh Agrawal
Ph.D. 2008 |
Control and Modification of the Structure and Properties of Associative Network Polymer Hydrogels |
Invista |
Shiv Redhu
M.S. 2008 |
Two Approaches to the Study of the Mechanism of the Transition Process from Initiation to Elongation in T7 RNA Polymerase |
Research Associate II Altus Pharmaceuticals |
Robert Daniels
Ph.D. 2007 |
The roles of VP2, VP3 and VP4 in the SV40 viral life cycle |
Assistant Professor, Stockholm University |
Joshua Hoerner
Ph.D. 2007 |
Characterizing protein conformation and dynamics using hydrogen-deuterium exchange electrospray ionization mass spectrometry |
Associate Principal Scientist, Merck |
Anton Manuilov
Ph.D. 2007 |
Changes in the mutual orientation oftRNA and 23SrRNA at the peptidyl transferase center of the ribosome detected by crosslinking of a photoreactive transition-state analog |
Scientist, Abbott Laboratories |
Abdalin Asinas
Ph.D. 2007 |
Protein interactions and kinase regulation in template-assembled complexes of chemotaxis receptor fragments |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto |
Gang Han
Ph.D. 2007 |
Surface functionalized nanoparticles for DNA and drug delivery |
Asst. Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, UMass Medical School, Worcester |
Rachel Kasinskas
Ph.D. 2007 |
Individual chemoreceptors of Salmonella typhimurium direct its accumulation in heterogeneous tumor tissue in vitro |
Life Technologies |
Juma Bridgewater
Ph.D. 2006 |
Using metal catalyzed oxidation reactions and mass spectrometry as a reliable method for determining metal binding-sites in proteins |
Immunogen |
Matthew Miller
Ph.D. 2006 |
Characterization of the protein matrix of Cod Otoliths |
Associate Research Scientist, Forest Laboratories, New York |
Sarwat Khattak
Ph.D. 2006 |
In vitro applications in drug metabolism and cell encapsulation |
Bristol-Meyers Squibb |
Yi Zhou
Ph.D. 2006 |
The stability of T7 RNA polymerase elongation complexes and promoter function analysis by in vitro selection |
Senior Scientist, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Watertown, MA |
Nicholas Fischer
Ph.D. 2006 |
Nanoparticle Receptors for Protein Surface Binding |
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, CA |
Edward Esposito
Ph.D. 2006 |
From initiation to elongation in T7 RNA polymerase |
Co-Founder & Research Scientist, Protein Attachment Technologies, LLC; BlueSky Biotech, Worcester |
Peter Bryngelson
Ph.D. 2006 |
Part 1. Nickel superoxide dismutase. Part 2. Computational studies of metallothiolate complexes |
Staff, Biogen-IDEC |
Sergio Chai
Ph.D. 2006 |
A tale of sulfur and selenium metabolites: From dioxygenases with sulfur-containing substrates to the analysis of selenium by gas chromatography with atomic emission detection |
Postdoctoral Associate, IUPUI |
Anthony Shrout
Ph.D. 2005 |
Activation of E. coli Chemosensory Pathway Components by Template-Directed Assembly of Receptor Fragments |
Co-Founder & Research Scientist,
Protein Attachment Technologies; teacher, Longmeadow High School |
Anirban Mohimen
Ph.D. 2005 |
Novel Methods to Study Protein Dynamics Using Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectometry |
Senior Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge |
Zhong Zhao
Ph.D. 2005 |
EGFR expression and activation in bovine cumulus cells and EGFR intramolecular regulation through interactions between tyrosines |
Postdoctoral Associate, NIH |
Li Zhi
Ph.D. 2005 |
Receptor clusters and dynamics in kinase regulation in bacterial |
Food & Drug Administration, Bethesda |
Mike Naill
Ph.D. 2005 |
The use of flow cytometry to study variability of paclitaxel accumulation in Taxus cell suspension cultures |
Abbott Laboratories |
Dave Flanagan
Ph.D. 2004 |
Solid phase synthesis of graft copolymers of poly(thiopene)S and peptides containing 3-thienylalani |
Assistant Editor,
Wiley-VCH Journal Advanced Materials, Weinheim, Germany |
Joffre Angelo Green
Ph.D. 2004 |
NIH 3T3 fibroblast adhesion to a fibronectin substrate: role of the archidonic acid signaling pathway |
Postdoctoral Associate, NIH, Cancer Research |
Syed Peeran
M.S. 2004 |
Probing the secondary structure of the HAMP linker domain in the serine chemotaxis receptor using solid-state NMR |
Medical Student, New York Medical College |
Honor L. Glenn
Ph.D. 2003 |
Cyclooxygenase and cyclic amp-dependent protein kinase regulate actin organization and cell motility |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts |
Catherine Goodman
Ph.D. 2004 |
Synthetic hosts as scaffolds for biomolecular recognition |
Senior Editor,
Nature Chemical Biology |
Robert Cleverly
Ph.D. 2002 |
The interaction of signal sequences with the signal recognition particle |
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Tufts University School of Medicine |
Vivek Prabhu
Ph.D. 2002 |
Phase behavior of polyelectrolyte solutions |
Permanent staff,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers Division |
Kenneth Rotondi
Ph.D. 2002 |
Local sequence and folding: the B-turn as a role model |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMASS, Amherst |
Rebecca Stockton
Ph.D. 2002 |
Characterization of arachidonic acid-mediated signal transduction in regulation of NIH-3T3 cell adhesion to extracellular matrix |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center |
Binumol Isaac
M.S. 2001 |
Solid-state NMR distance measurements provide insight into the structure and mechanisms of transmembrane signaling in the serine receptor |
Pharmaceutical Discovery Division, Abbott Laboratories |
Tim Driscoll
M.S. 2000 |
Sequence-specific RNA ligands |
Consultant Molecular Visualization |
Yael Balazs
Ph.D. 1999 |
Site-directed solid-state NMR distance measurements test mechanisms of transmembrane signaling in bacterial chemotaxis receptors |
NMR Facility Manager, Technion University, Israel |
Eric Breinlinger
Ph.D. 1998 |
Model Systems For Flavoenzyme Activity: Molecular Recognition in Multiple Oxidation States |
Research Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry Department, Albany Molecular Research |
