Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Mark Bedford, Ph.D., Professor
mtbedford@mdanderson.org
M.S. (Medical Biochemistry) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ph.D. (Developmental Biology) Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Philip Leder
Swarnalatha Manickavinayaham, Ph.D., Instructor
smanickavinayaha@mdanderson.org
B.S. & M.S. (Biochemistry) Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India
Ph.D. (Molecular Biology - Animal Science), Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi India
Current research: Defining the functions of post-translational modifications on E2F1; function of E2F1 acetylation in DNA double-strand break repair and transcription.
Ishita Rehman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
irehman@mdanderson.org
B.Sc. (Microbiology) University of
Calcutta, Kolkata, India
M.Sc. (Biotechnology) Kalinga Institute
of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Ph.D.
(Life Science and Biotechnology) Jadavpur University via Indian
Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
Current Research: Exploring MTAP-PRMT axis
Leilei Shi, Ph.D., Instructor
lshi1@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Biological Science) East China Normal University
Ph.D. (Epigenetics) Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sabrina Stratton, B.S., Research Laboratory
Manager
sastratt@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Marine
Biology) Texas A&M University, Galveston Campus
Current
Research: Post-translational modification crosstalk with implications
in cancer progression and treatment.
Yalong Aaron Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
ywang68@mdanderson.org
B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China
Ph.D., University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
Current Research: Identifying new arginine
methylation readers; Arginine methylation in immunology.
Tanner Wright, B.S., Graduate Student
twright3@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Biotechnology) Utah Valley
University, Orem Utah
Current Research: Exploring symmetric
arginine di-methylation in liver cancer.