Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Mark Bedford, Professor
mtbedford@mdanderson.org
M.S. in Medical Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ph.D. in Developmental Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Philip Leder
Jianji Chen, Graduate Student
jchen30@mdanderson.org
Originally from China
B.S.,
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
M.S., University
of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
Current Research:
Understanding the functional significance of reader proteins for
histone H2B mono-ubiquitination.
Guozhen Gao, Research Scientist
ggao2@mdanderson.org
Originally from China
B.S. in Biology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Ph.D. in Microbiology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Current Research : Understanding the function of arginine methylation in cancers such as small cell lung cancer.
Ishita Rehman, Postdoctoral Fellow
irehman@mdanderson.org
Originally from India
B.Sc.
(Hons) Microbiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
M.Sc. Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Ph.D. in Life Science and
Biotechnology, Jadavpur University via Indian Association for the
Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
Current
Research: Exploring MTAP-PRMT axis
Cari Sagum, Lab Manager
casagum@mdanderson.org
Originally from Houston, Texas
B.S. in Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin
M.P.H., The George Washington University
Current Research: Identifying novel protein-protein interactions using protein domain microarrays.
Yalong Aaron Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow
ywang68@mdanderson.org
Originally from China
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, Graduate Student
twright3@mdanderson.org
B.S., Biotechnology, Utah Valley
University, Orem Utah
Fen Yang, Research Scientist
ffyang@mdanderson.org
Originally from China
M.D. & Ph.D. in Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Current Research : Identifying new RNA/DNA modification readers; understanding the phenotype and mechanism of an uncharacterized protein SPIN.DOC.