Lab Members
Blaine Bartholomew, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Professor
B.S., Chemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Srinivas Animireddy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Biotechnology, Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India
M.Sc., Animal Biotechnology, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Ph.D., Cancer Cell Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Telangana, India
Research interest: Role of BRG1 in stem cell maintenance and differentiation
Junwoo Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Department 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
Dhurjhoti (DJ) Saha, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
B.Sc. (Hons), Zoology, B.K.C. College, Kolkata, India
M.Sc. , Zoology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
Ph.D., 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
B.Sc., Chemistry, National University, Bogota, Colombia
Ph.D., Biosciences, La Sabana University, Chia, Colombia
Research interest: Role of the INO80 complex in the epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure during cellular processes such as replication and transcription as relevant to cancer development
Shagun Shukla, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Microbial and Food Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
M.Sc., Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Protein Engineering, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
Research interest: Defining the structure and biochemistry of the chromatin remodeling complex ‘INO80’ in epigenetic regulatory mechanisms
Sara Sanz Juste, M.S.
Graduate Student, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
B.S., Biology, Universidad de León, Spain
M.S., Biology and Technology of Reproduction, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Research interest: Defining the mechanisms through which the INO80 complex influences chromatin structure and gene expression, providing insights into potential therapeutic targets for cancer treatment