BCMB Students: 2011 Entering Class

Thesis Lab:

Stewart Shuman

Undergraduate University: St. Xavier's College

Thesis Lab:

Shahin Rafii

Undergraduate University: Institute of Chemical Technology

Thesis Lab:

Maria Jasin

Undergraduate University:  National Sun Yat-Sen University

Publications:

• ATM loss leads to synthetic lethality in BRCA1 BRCT mutant mice associated with exacerbated defects in homology-directed repair.
• EXO1 suppresses double-strand break induced homologous recombination between diverged sequences in mammalian cells.
• Distinct genetic control of homologous recombination repair of Cas9-induced double-strand breaks
• Double-strand break repair by homologous recombination in primary mouse somatic cells requires BRCA1 but not the ATM kinase.

Thesis Lab:

Dirk Remus

Undergraduate University: Loras College

Publications:

• Chromatin Constrains the Initiation and Elongation of DNA Replication.
• Checkpoint Kinase Rad53 Couples Leading- and Lagging-Strand DNA Synthesis under Replication Stress.
• Origin plasticity during budding yeast DNA replication in vitro.

Thesis Lab:

Songahi Shi

Undergraduate University: Peking University Health Science Center

Publications:

• PARD3 dysfunction in conjunction with dynamic HIPPO signaling drives cortical enlargement with massive heterotopia

Thesis Lab:

Shahin Rafii

Undergraduate University: Eastern Connecticut State University

Publications:

• Novel biopanning strategy to identify epitopes associated with vaccine protection
• Molecular Signatures of Tissue-Specific Microvascular Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity in Organ Maintenance and Regeneration.
• Sox17 drives functional engraftment of endothelium converted from non-vascular cells.

Thesis Lab:

Alexandros Pertsinidis

Undergraduate University: Tsinghua University

Publications:

• Single-Molecule Real-Time 3D Imaging of the Transcription Cycle by Modulation Interferometry

Thesis Lab:

Christopher Park

Undergraduate University: New York Institute of Technology

Publications:

• miR-99 regulates normal and malignant hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal.

Thesis Lab:

Morgan Huse

Undergraduate University: Brandeis University

Publications:

• Cytotoxic T Cells Use Mechanical Force to Potentiate Target Cell Killing.
• Cancer Immunosurveillance by Tissue-Resident Innate Lymphoid Cells and Innate-like T Cells.
• A Tunable Diffusion-Consumption Mechanism of Cytokine Propagation Enables Plasticity in Cell-to-Cell Communication in the Immune System.

Thesis Lab:

Alexandra Joyner

Undergraduate University: Nankai University