2018 Summer Interns



2018_Yoo-Bentley

Jenny Yoo

Mentor: Dr. David Bentley

Project: Purification of Enzymatically Active T4 RNA Ligase 2



2 -- Loran and Kieft

Loran Stearns

Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Kieft

Project: Biochemical and Structural Characterization of a Kink-Turn Variant



3 -- Alice and Knox

Alice Landfair Mueller

(pictured with Grad Student Ashley Knox)

Mentor: Dr. Linda van Dyk (not pictured)

Project: Transcription of host and viral RNA Pol III promoters during murine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection



4 -- Alisandro and Kabos

Alisandro Fernandez Leger

Mentor: Dr. Peter Kabos

Project: ​PRELID1 Changes in Mitochrondrial Morphology and Metabolism in Drug Resistant Breast Cancer Cells



5 -- Sabrina and Oneill

Sabrina Hafeez

(pictured with Grad Student Katie O'Neill)

Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Richer (not pictured)

Project: Modulation of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition by miR-200c Impacts Heme Catabolism in Breast Cancer



6 -- Maddie and Aaron

Maddie Chrupcala

Mentor: Dr. Aaron Johnson

Project: ​The HOTAIR-YTHDC1 Interaction in Breast Cancer



7 -- Chloe and Aaron

Chloe Barrington-Ham

Mentor: Dr. Aaron Johnson

Project: Determining if lncRNA-mRNA Matchmaking Relieves PRC2 Inhibition



8 -- Mac and Tom

Mac Millard

Mentor: Dr. Tom Evans

Project: Determining the functions of novel noncodings RNAs in embryogenesis in C. elegans



9 -- Jade and Olivia

Jade Ponder

Mentor: Dr. Olivia Rissland

Project: ​Investigating the link between translation elongation speed and mRNA decay



10 - Will and Neel

Will Herbst

Mentor: Dr. Neel Mukherjee

Project: The role of AKAP1 in regulating human steroidogenesis



11 - Kate and Suja

Kate Matlin

Mentor: Dr. Suja Jagannathan

Project: Underdstanding cell-to-cell heterogeneity of NMD efficiency



2018_Diaz-Mukherjee

Arely Diaz

Mentor: Dr. Neel Mukherjee

Project: The role of AROID, a long non-coding RNA, in melanoma



13 -- Charlotte Laura and Lori-2

Charlotte Moffatt

Mentor: Dr. Lori Sussel

Project: A LNC-rna to Type 2 Diabetes

(also pictured: Postdoc Laura Hudish)



14 -- Ana and Tom 2

Ana Fairbanks Mahnke

Mentor: Dr. Tom Anchordoquy

Project: ​Hijacking the exosome pathway