CBI ALUMNI

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  
Mylene Ferrolino
Ph.D. 2013
The Unavoidable Threat of Aggregation: Implications for Folding and Function of a Beta-Rich Protein  
Luis Ramirez-Tapia
Ph.D. 2013
Structural Changes that Drive Timed Promoter Release in Transcription Reciprocally Lead to Abortive Instability  
Reuben Chacko
Ph.D. 2013
Design and Development of Nanogels for Small Molecule and siRNA Delivery  
David Griffin, Ph.D. 2012 Determining Structure and Function in Nanomaterial Biocomposites  
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  
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

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

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