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.
Shaza Mokhtar, M.Sc.
Research Assistant II
Education:
B.Sc. in Biochemistry, McGill
University, Montreal, Canada
M.Sc. in Human/Medical Genetics,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Research interest:
Defining the function
of chromatin remodeling complexes (INO80, SWI/SNF, CHD1) in the
epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure during cellular processes
in development of cancer by using MNase, and cut and run
techniques.
Dhurjhoti (DJ) Saha, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
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. in Microbial and Food Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
M.Sc. in Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
Ph.D. in 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.
Yuan Zhong, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Education
B.S. in Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, China
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of Southern California