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

Srinivas Animireddy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: 
B.Sc. in Biotechnology from Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India
M.Sc. in Animal Biotechnology from University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Ph.D. in 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

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.

Shagun Shukla, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Education:
B.Sc. Microbial and Food Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
M.Sc. Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
Ph.D. Biochemistry and Protein Engineering, National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, India

Research interest:
To decipher the structural and biochemical aspects of chromatin remodeling complex ‘INO80’ in epigenetic regulatory mechanisms.