Current Student List
Kawther Abdilleh
Advisor: Dr. Cristian Castillo-Davis
E-mail:
kabdille@umd.edu
2128 Bioscience Research Building
Phone Number: 301-405-2005
Haifa Bensaidan
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail: dr_haifa2003@yahoo.com
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Robert Berkey
Advisor: Dr. Shunyuan Xiao
E-mail:
rberkey@umd.edu
9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 240-314-6482
Research Summary: Plant resistance ® genes to
pathogen attack. Functional
Origin of RPW8-Medicated Resistance to the Fungal Pathogen
Powdery Mildew.
Roxane Bouten
Advisor: Dr. Zvi Kelman
E-mail:
rbouten@umd.edu
9600 Gudelskey Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 240-314-6294
Katherine T. Briggs
Advisor: Dr. John Marino
E-mail:
ktbriggs1@umd.edu
9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 240-314-6267
Wayne Cabral
Advisor: Dr. Joan Marini
E-mail:
cabralw@mail.nih.gov
3151 Plant Science Buillding
Phone Number: 301-496-5379
Chen Cao
Advisor: Dr. John Moult
9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 240-314-6241
Paul E. Clavijo
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Frauwirth
E-mail:
pclavijo@umd.edu
2105 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-5121
Gina Della Togna
Advisor: Dr. Buddhan Pukazhenthi
E-mail:
gdellat@umd.edu
Phone Number: 540-635-6591
Lijuan Du
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
lijuandu@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Vonetta Edwards
Advisor: Dr. Wenxia Song
E-mail:
vedwards@umd.edu
2121 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-5453
Research Summary: Changes in Epithelial Cells after
Invasion by N. Gonorrhoeae
Laura Ellestad
Advisor: Dr. Tom Porter
E-mail:
ellestad@umd.edu
1469 Animal Sciences Building (#142)
Phone Number: 301-405-5786
Research Summary: Investigation of the Signaling
Pathways Involved in the Glucocorticoid
Induction of Somatotroph Differentiation in the Chick
Embryonic Anterior Pituitary Gland
Siqian Feng
Advisor: Dr. Jian Wang
E-mail:
sqfeng@umd.edu
3147 Plant Sciences Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6967 (office), (301-405-1794
(lab)
Research Summary: I am currently investigating the
roles of polyhomeotic in fruit fly
Amanda Field
Advisor: Dr. Leslie Pick
E-Mail:
afield13@umd.edu
3152 Plant Science Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6881
Rui Gao
Advisor: Dr. William D. Figg
E-mail:
ruigao@umd.edu
NIH, 5A10/Bldg. 10, 10 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone Number: 301-451-4974
Research Summary: Pharmacogenetics Study on DNA
Repair Genes
Kasim George
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
kigeorge@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Jennifer German
Advisor: Dr. Brenda Fredericksen
E-mail:
jgerman@umd.edu
3219 Bioscience Research Building
Phone Number: 301-405-5441
Theodore R. Gibbons
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
tgibbons@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Suna Gulay
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
sgulay@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Nataporn Haskins
Advisor: Dr. Mendel Tuchman
Children National Medical Center
1111 Michigan Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20011
Phone Number: 202-476-3109
Lara Hause
Advisor: Dr. Kevin McIver
E-mail:
lhause@umd.edu
3217 Bioscience Research Building
Phone Number: 301-405-7514
Alison Heffer
Advisor: Dr. Leslie Pick
E-mail:
aheffer@umd.edu
3188 Plant Sciences Building
Phone Number: 301-495-2862
Ryan Heselpoth
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
rhesel@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Gaya K. Hettiarachchi
Advisor: Rotation
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Jae Kwang Jeong
Advisor: Dr. Ian Mathers
E-mail:
jjkeong@umd.edu
1401 Animal Science/Agric. Engr. Building ZIP 2311
Phone Number: 301-405-1380
Harlan Joseph King
Advisor: Castillo-Davis
E-mail:
harley@umd.edu
3220 Bio/Psych. Bldg.
Phone Number: 301-405-2005
Sandra Kirsch
Advisor: Dr. Mendel Tuchman
Children National Medical Center
1111 Michigan Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20011
Phone Number: 202-476-3109
My Tra Le
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
myle@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Caroline R. Li
Advisor: Dr. Leslie Pick
E-mail:
crli@umd.edu
3188 Plant Sciences Building
Phone Number: 301-405-2862
Research Summary: Regulation of Axon Guidance by
the Drosophila Insulin
Dandan Li
Advisor: Dr. Lian-Yong Gao
E-mail:
ddanli@umd.edu
3109 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-7562
Sara Linden
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
slinden87@mail.uri.edu
125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Omar Memon
Advisor: Dr. Anne Simon
E-mail:
osm@umd.edu
2201 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-8965
Jessica Miller
Advisor: Dr. Volker Briken
E-mail:
jlmiller@umd.edu
2201 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-1216
Research Summary: Virulence of Mycobacterium
Tuberculosis and its Ability to Inhibit Host Cell Apoptosis
Habi Mojidi
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoping Zhu
E-mail:
hmojidi@umd.edu
9617 Greenmead Drive
Phone Number: 301-314-5626
Research Summary: Viral Evasion of Host Immune
System by HSV
Nellie Moshkovich
Advisor: Dr. Elissa Lei
E-mail:
moshkovichn@niddk.nih.gov
Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK,
NIH 50 South Drive.,
Bldg. 50, Rm. 3146, MSC 8028, Bethesda, MD 20892-8028
Phone Number: 301-594-0398
Research Summary: Chromatin Organization
Malini Mukherjee
Advisor: Dr. Tom Porter
E-mail:
malini@umd.edu
1462 Animal Sciences/Agric. Eng. Bldg. #142
Phone Number: 301-405-5786
Research Summary: Investigation of the Regulation
of Growth Hormone Gene Expression in the Anterior Pituitary During Chicken
Embryonic Development
Jyoti Narayana
Advisor: Dr. Tom Porter
E-mail:
njyoti@umd.edu
1403 Animal Science/Agric. Engr. Building #142
Phone Number: 301-405-5786
Research Summary: Investigating Genes Involved in
the Glucocorticoid Inducted Regulation of Growth Hormone Gene Expression During
Somatotroph Differentiation in Chicks
Miao Pan
Advisor: Dr. Zvi Kelman
E-mail:
miaopan@umd.edu
CARB 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 240-314-6294
Vanya Paralanova
Advisor: John Glass
E-mail:
vparalanova@gmail.com
J. Craig Venter, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 301-715-7305
Trinity Perry
Advisor: Dr. David Mosser
E-mail: tperry@umd.edu
3107 Bioscience Research Building
Phone Number: 301-405-4281
Alma Polo Barrios
Advisor: Rotation
E-mail:
almapolo@umd.edu
1125 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6991
Varnika Roy
Advisor: Dr. William Bentley
E-mail:
varnika@umd.edu
5115 Plant Sciences Building
Phone Number: 301-405-5255
Research Summary: Investigating Nanofactories, and
their Development to Observe Effects on Bacterial Phenotypes Such as Quorum
Sensing Mediated Biofirm Formation
Jennifer Marie Shemansky
Advisor: Caren Chang
0209 Bioscience Research Building
Phone Number: 301-405-1854
Yang Shen
Advisor: Daniel Nelson
CARB, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
Phone Number: 240-314-6230
Vandana Sekhar
Advisor: Dr. Alison McBride
137, Bldg.-4, NIAID, NIH, 50 South Drive., Bethesda, MD
20892
Phone Number: 301-412-6612
Research Summary: Role of E2 Protein in Maintenance
of Viral Minichromosomes in Persistent Papilloma Infections
Matthew D. Servinsky
Advisor: Dr. Doug Julin
E-mail:
mservins@umd.edu
3511 Biochemistry Building
Phone Number: 301-405-7583
Research Summary: Our Research Focuses on DNA
Repair Enzymes. Currently I am Studying a RecD Homolog in D. Radiodurans, the
most Radiation Resistant Organism Known to Date
Zhen Shi
Advisor: Dr. John Moult
E-mail:
zhenshi@umd.edu
CARB 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
Phone Number: 240-314-6149
Research Summary: Residue Substitutions and their
Disease Susceptibility; Protein-protein Interaction Interface Analysis
Lalitha Srinivasan
Advisor: Dr. Volker Briken
2201 Microbiology Bldg.
Phone Number: 301-405-1216
Mathangi Srinivasan
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Fauwirth
2105 Microbiology Bldg.
Phone Number: 301405-5121
Research Summary: The Role of the Transcription
Factor Isoforms NFAT1 and NFAT2 in Energy Maintenance and Regulation
David Sturgill
Advisor: Dr. Brian Oliver
NIH, 3339 Louis B. Stokes Lab, 50 South Drive., Bethesda,
MD 20892
Phone Number: 301-496-5494
Ramanand Arun Subramanian
Advisor: Dr. David O’Brochta
E-mail:
srarun@umd.edu
UMBI Shady Grove, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
Phone Number: 240-314-6494
Research Summary: Study of the Behavior of
Transposable Elements in the Malarial Mosquito, Anopheles Gambiae as Part of the
Efforts to Understand the Feasibility of Using Transposable Elements as Genetic
Drive Systems to Control Vector-Borne Diseases such as Malaria
Sergey Sulima
Advisor: Jonathan Dinman
2135 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-1758
Jessica Tang
Advisor: Dr. Louisa Qu
E-mail:
jtang@umd.edu
5112 Plant Science Building
Phone Number: 301-405-6958
Nutinee Teerakulkittipong
Advisor: Dr. John Moult
E-mail:
nteeraku@umd.edu
CARB, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
Phone Number: 301-405-6958
Cristel Thomas
Advisor: Dr. Eric Haag
E-mail:
cthomas8@umd.edu
0245 Biology/Psych Building
Phone Number: 301-405-8625
Research Summary: Evolution of Sex Determination in
Caenorhabditis
Vijayakala Vydeeswaran
Advisor: Dr. David C. Straney
E-mail:
vvkala@umd.edu
2216 H. J. Patterson Building
Phone Number: 301-405-1619
Research Summary: Study of Regulation of Binuclear
Zinc Transcription Factors in Filamentous Fungi
Qian Wang
Advisor: Dr. Louisa Wu
5128 Plant Science Building
Phone Number: 301-405-5151
Melvin D. Wiggins
Advisor: Wenxia Song
2121 Microbiology Building
Phone Number: 301-405-5453
Yiyuan Yin
Advisor: Dr. Roy Mariuzza
E-mail:
yiny@umd.edu
3151 Plant Science Building
Phone Number: 301-405-3236
Yizhou Yin
Advisor: Elizabeth Quinlan
E-mail:
yzyin@umd.edu
1217 Biosciences Research Building
Phone Number: 301-405-7222
Research Summary: Reactivation of Ocular Dominance
Plasticity in the Adult Visual Cortex
Chen-Hsin Yu
Advisor: Dr. John Moult
E-mail:
chyu@umd.edu
9600 Gudelsky Drive., Rockville, MD 20850
Phone Number: 240-314-6000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Office of the Director
1125 Microbiology Building
College Park, MD 20742
Phone 301-405-6991
Fax: 301-314-9921
Email: mocbgrad@deans.umd.edu
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