Previous Members and Last Known Location

Assistant Research Professors

Dr. Kajari Dahr

Went on to a lucrative career in the greater Chicago area.

Postdocs

Dr. Ardeschir Vahedi-Faridi

Went on to solve structures with Dr. Funk's lab at the University of Toledo and then to Brown and is currently at the University of Berlin.  "Dark Star: Best US film ever."

Dr. Venkataraman "VK" Kabaleeswaran

Went on to high through-put structure solving work with Dr. Viola's group at the University of Toledo and then on to the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Dr. Anuradha Sekher

Ph. D. - University of Toledo, Chemistry

Matriculated with Ph.D.

Dr. Xiaoyi Deng

"Structural Studies of Human Homologous Recombination Repair Proteins: Replication Protein A and RAD52" October, 2007.

Xiaoyi went on to do postdoctoral work at the University Medical Center in Dallas.

Dr. Doba Jackson

"Analysis of the human Rad52/RPA Complex:  Characterization of the interacting regions, DNA binding activity, and higher-order complexes" August, 2002.

Doba went on to do postdoctoral work with Dr. Song Tan at Penn State.

Dr. Wasantha Ranatunga

"Expression, purification, biophysical characterization and preliminary crystallization of human and yeast Rad52 proteins" August, 2002.

Wasantha went on to do postdoctoral work with Dr. Ursula Schulze at the Lawrence Berkley National Lab.

Matriculated with M.S.

Cathy Schellert

"Purification and Crystallization of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase and Purification and Characterization of RAD52 Domains" April 12, 1999.

She went on to Medical School at the University of Cincinnati.

Jeffrey F. Ohren

"The Purification, Crystallization and Initial Crystallographic Analysis of the Dimer of the 14 and 32 KDa Subunits of Human Replication Protein A" May 5, 1999.

He currently works for Pfizer Global Research and Development in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Krishnamurthy Rajeswari

"The Cloning, Expression, Purification and Characterization of Soluble, Active Fragment (SAF) Constructs of Human RAD52 Suitable for Crystallization" July 12, 1999.

She has taken a research position at Genentech in San Francisco, CA.

Undergraduates

Brittany

2008 summer student and an avid soccer player for LSU.

Becky

2008 summer student and another in a long line of BRIN scholars to rotate through the lab.

Chris Danford

2007 summer student from Stanford. Previous summers had him counting bees visiting targets in Mexico and the mating habits of ground squirrels in Alaska.

Krista

2007 summer student.  Known for stunningly beautiful sorority sisters.

Mona Sorouri

Mona "the other undergraduate for summer 2006" returned to complete her studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  She is best known for her classic hand holding photograph that graced the front page of the Structural Biology Lab 2006-2007.

Mike Lundgren

Mike went on to complete his studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

Abby Henderson

Abby is continuing studies at York College.  She is an expert the identification of different countries flags.

Oluwatosin "Tosin" Asojo

Tosin went on to complete studies in mechanical engineering at the University of Oklahoma.

Katrina Christiansen

Katrina the "Comic Genius" from Pender (home of the corn field in the middle of the town) went on to complete studies a University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  Katrina is known for her famous tomato sandwiches.

Ramsey Chehab

Ramsey worked in the lab for a Biology Honors Study.

He went on to Medical School at the Medical College of Ohio.

Jason Stock

M.I.A. suspected P.O.W.

High school Students

Vinay Gupta

Vinay went on to a promising career in food service at Olive Garden while completing his studies at Maumee Valley Country Day School in Toledo, OH.  He went on to study at Princeton.  One day he hopes to open a chain of "City Diners" all over the US.

Technicians

Edward Irobi

He went on to Medical School in the Caribbean.  That's fantastic!

Jason Porta

After a brief stint in graduate school Jason moved on to a dream job over at the Nebraska Center for Structural Biology.  Then he he came back to the Structural Biology Lab to get a PhD.

Gilson Baía

Omaha proved too cold for his Brazilian blood and Gilson moved to the more temperate region of San Francisco, CA.

Cameron "The Colonel" Murphy

After becoming a master field commander playing untold hours of Generals, honing his laboratory skills, and cheating death by escaping the jaws of a viscous man eater shark in the Caribbean the Colonel went to medical school at UNMC. He has returned on occasion to tackle the semi crystalline PA problem.

Jeff Habel

Jeff accidentally got on the wrong airplane home at the ACA meeting, ended up at University of Georgia, and decided to work on his Ph. D. there.

Matt "Pokey" Pokross

Matt signed a lucrative deal and began working for a small local firm in Cincinnati, OH (Proctor and Gamble).