Lab Members

Blaine Bartholomew, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
B.S in Chemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Davis

Junwoo Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:
B.Sc.  Dept. of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
Integrated M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Chromatin Biology, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

Research interests:
The role of chromatin remodelers in: 1) transcription elongation and termination; 2) cancer development; and 3) pluripotency and totipotency of stem cells.

Jim Persinger, Jr.
Research Laboratory Manager

Education:
B.A. in Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Dhurjhoti (DJ) Saha, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:
B.Sc. (Hons) in Zoology from B.K.C. College, Kolkata, India
M.Sc. in Zoology from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
Ph.D. in Life Science, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi, India

Research interest: 
To understand ARID1A mediated regulation of higher order chromatin structure in both normal development and cancer. 

Jeison Garcia Serrano, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:
B.Sc. in Chemistry from National University, Bogota, Colombia
Ph.D. in Biosciences, La Sabana University, Chia, Colombia

Research interest: To unveil the role of the INO80 complex in the epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure during cellular processes relevant to cancer development, such as replication and transcription.