Students

• Mary Adeyeye
  

  
  Advisor: Brendan Lee, MD,PhD & Xiangli Yang, PhD

• Lana Al Hasani
  

  Lana.AlHasani@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Wenbo Li, PhD

• Amelie Albrecht
  

  Amelie.Albrecht@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Xuetong (Snow) Shen, PhD

  actin post-translational modifications, nuclear actin

• Jace Aloway
  

  Jace.Aloway@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Richard Behringer, PhD

  developmental genetics, Müllerian Duct regression, BMP signaling, determining the role of Noggin

• Erin Atkinson
  

  Erin.Atkinson@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Bin Wang, PhD

  DNA damage, replication stress, telomere maintenance, recombination, SUMOylation

• Han Bit Baek
  

  Han.Bit.Baek@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Swathi Arur, PhD

  RASopathies, embryogenesis, C. elegans genetics

• Vahid Bahrambeigi
  

  Vahid.Bahrambeigi@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Anirban Maitra, MBBS

  colorectal cancer, liquid biopsy, ctDNA, extracellular vesicles, bioinformatics

• Alem Belachew
  

  Alem.Belachew@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Michelle Hildebrandt, PhD

  genetic ancestry, cancer disparities, population genetics

• Alexandria Blackburn
  

  Alexandria.Blackburn@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Rachel Miller, PhD

  Xenopus, CAKUT, kidney development, DYRK1A, Wnt signaling

• Dhruv Chachad
  

  Dhruv.Chachad@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Gigi Lozano, PhD

  p53, osteosarcoma, mouse models, transcriptomics, genomics

• Jianji Chen
  

  Jianji.Chen@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Mark Bedford, PhD

  epigenetic reader, histone H2B monoubiquitination, protein-protein interaction

• Ruth De Paula
  

  rbde@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: John Tainer, PhD

  G-quadruplex, genomic instability, human epigenetics, cancer epigenetics

• Rachel Dittmar
  

  Rachel.Dittmar@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Subrata Sen, PhD

  extracellular vesicles, exosomes, pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cysts, KRAS, miRNA, biomarkers

• Maxsam Donta
  

  mdonta@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Pierre McCrea, PhD

• Ahmed Emam
  

  aemam@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Bin Wang, PhD

  replication stress response, DNA damage response, DAMPs, innate immunity, P-bodies, ribosomal DNA

• Shannon Erhardt
  

  Shannon.Erhardt@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jun Wang, PhD

• Safia Essien
  

  safia.essien@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: George Eisenhoffer, PhD

  apoptosis, epithelial stem cell dynamics, zebrafish genetics, extracellular vesicle biogenesis and function 

• Melissa Frasca
  

  melissa.frasca@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Francesca Cole, PhD

  pairing, synapsis, homologous chromosomes, recombination, meiosis, genomics, cytology

• Jovanka Gencel-Augusto
  

  Jovanka.gencelaugusto@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Gigi Lozano, PhD

  Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, tumor suppression, mutant p53, mouse genetics

• Archit Ghosh
  

  Archit.Ghosh@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Kunal Rai, PhD

  3D genome organization, enhancer biology, cell state transition dynamics, tumor evolution

• Dalia Hassan
  

  Dalia.Hassan@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jichao Chen, PhD

  lung development, epigenetic regulation of cell fate, genomic bioinformatics

• I-Lin Ho
  

  I-Lin.Ho@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Giulio Draetta, MD, PhD

  cancer initiation, tumor heterogeneity, cancer metastasis 

• Russell Irwin
  

  Russell.Irwin@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Michael Green, PhD

• Naeh Klages-Mundt
  

  Naeh.KlagesMundt@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Bin Wang, PhD

  DNA repair, DNA damage response, Fanconi anemia, nucleotide excision repair, crosslink repair

• Celine Shuet Lin Kong
  

  Celine.Shuet.Lin.Kong@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jichao Chen, PhD

  lung development, lung injury, mouse genetics, single-cell genomics

• Pranavi Koppula
  

  Pranavi.Koppula@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Boyi Gan, PhD

  cancer metabolism, ferroptosis, redox biology, metabolic therapeutics

• Zian Liao
  

  Zian.Liao@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Wenbo Li, PhD

  enhancer RNA, gene regulation, breast cancer

• Diana Machado
  

  
  Advisor: Richard Behringer, PhD

  mammalian developmental genetics, reproductive biology, evolution and development

• Lorena Maili
  

  Lorena.Maili@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jacqueline Hecht, PhD

  human genetics, cleft lip and palate, functional noncoding variants, craniofacial development

• Anna Miao
  

  smiao@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michelle Barton, PhD

  breast cancer organoid, 3D cell culture, role Trim24 in cancer cell migration and invasion

• Rhiannon Morrissey
  

  Rhiannon.L.Morrissey@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Gigi Lozano, PhD

  mutant p53 biology, mouse genetics, mammary biology, breast cancer progression

• Malcolm Moses
  

  Malcolm.moses@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Richard Behringer, PhD

  reproduction, development, genetics, enhancers, gene regulatory networks, mouse, Müllerian duct

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