Projects

The laboratory has openings for motivated graduate students and post-docs. A description of the research projects pursued in the lab can be found here.

We also invite exceptional, driven undergraduate students interested in pursuing scientific research to join the laboratory.

Current Lab Members

Breann Brown: Graduate Student, MPP entering class of 2006: Brain scaffolding proteins and the role of oxidation in phosphatase signaling.

Dana Francis: Graduate Student, MPP entering class of 2007: Regulation of MAP kinases by Map kinase phosphatases.

Dorothy Koveal: Graduate Student, MCB entering class of 2007: Regulation of MAP kinases by MAP kinase scaffolding proteins.

Dana Lord: Graduate Student, MPP entering class of 2009: Structure and function of proteins involved in biofilm formation and dispersal.

Jennifer Arruda: Undergraduate Student and Technician, RIC and EpSCOR fellow: Molecular biology and protein chemistry.

Antoni Tortajada: Research Technician and Lab Manager : Studies of signaling complexes that regulate MAPK signaling in the immune system.

Alexander Haley : Undergraduate from the University of Arizona: Structure of phosphatase:inhibitor complexes.

Austin Wood: Undergraduate from Westminster College, Utah: Purification and crystallization of MAPK regulatory proteins.

Kevin Zheng: Undergraduate from Brown University: Structure and function of proteins involved in biofilm formation and dispersal.

Alumni

Katja Betz, Ph.D.: Post-doctoral Fellow Currently conducting biomedical research in Europe.

David Critton, Ph.D.: Graduate Student, Awarded PhD in 2010: Currently a post-doctoral scientist at Pfizer, Groton, CT.

Igor Nederlof: Dutch Masters Student Research Fellow: Graduate with honors. Currently a PhD student in the group of Jan Pieter Abrahams in Leiden.

Anthony Dutra: Undergraduate Student, CCRI and EPSCoR summer undergraduate fellow: Molecular biology and protein chemistry.

Christie Ciarlo: Undergraduate Junior/Senior, Bio195-196 Honors Thesis Student : Studies of neuronal regulatory protein structure and activity. Currently working as a technician at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Ojus Doshi: Undergraduate Junior/Senior, Bio195-196 Honors Thesis Student : Studies of signaling proteins in bacteria. Currently a research technician at Genetech as part of a highly competative 2-year rotational program.

Michael Hadley: Undergraduate Senior, Bio195-196 Honors Thesis Student : Studies of scaffolding protein PDZ domains. Currently in the School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Geoffrey Stetson: Undergraduate Senior, Bio195-196 Thesis Student: Studies of phosphatase structure and activity. Currently attending medical school at The Ohio State Univesity.

Melody Lopez: Undergraduate Summer Intern, The Leadership Alliance: Studies of scaffolding proteins. Currently attending medical school.

Rotation Students

Simina Grigoriu: MCB Rotation Student

Anupriya Dutta: MCB Rotation Student

Kyle Skottke: MCB Rotation Student

Daniel Reid: MCB Rotation Student

Michael Ragusa: MCB Rotation Student

Fun Stuff

Photos: Joint Lab Party

Undergraduate Poster Sessions:Michael's honors senior thesis poster presented at the Undergraduate Honors Poster Session, April 20, 2006 Ojus's UTRA poster presented at the UTRA Poster Session, August, 2006 Geoff's Honors Senior Thesis poster presented at at the Undergraduate Honors Poster Session, April 18, 2007.

 
 
 

2011

D. Francis: Travel Fellowship from the IUCR to present her work at the XXII IUCR Madrid Congress.

B. Brown: Travel Fellowship from the U.S. National Committee for Crystallography to present her work at the XXII IUCR Madrid Congress.

D. Koveal: Keystone Symposium Scholarship to present her work at the Frontiers of NMR in Biology Keystone Meeting.

2010

D. Koveal: Oliver Cromwell Gorton Arnold Biological Graduate Fellowship.

2009

D. Francis: Levy predoctoral travel award to attend RapiData 2009 as an experimenter.

D. Francis: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention

B. Brown: Recipient of an NIH F31 NRSA Pre-doctoral training fellowship.

D. Lord: Pharmacia Graduate Research Fellowship

2008

B. Brown: Recipient of an NSF EPSCoR Graduate Research Fellowship.

D. Critton: Levy predoctoral travel award to present his work at the XXI congress and General Assemply of the International Union of Crystallography in Osaka, Japan.

D. Critton and B. Brown: American Crystallographic Association Student Travel awards to present their work at the 2008 ACA Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee.

B. Brown: American Crystallographic Association, Pauling Poster Prize Honorable Mention.

B. Brown: Samual M. Nabrit Award for Scholarship (first place poster in intermediate Ph.D. division)

2007

D. Francis: Pharmacia Graduate Research Fellowship

D. Koveal: Recipient of an NIH F32 NRSA Predoctoral training fellowhsip

B. Brown: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention

2006

B. Brown: Pharmacia Graduate Research Fellowship