Celebrating BBCB Graduates
Please join us in our celebration as we highlight our BBCB graduates.
The profiles are sectioned by degree type:
Doctor of Philosophy

Andrea Andress Huacachino
Mentor: Trevor Penning, PhD
Thesis Title: Role of AKR1C3 in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Associated Lipotoxicity

Kyle Barrie
Mentor: Roberto Dominguez, PhD
Thesis Title: Structural bases for regulation of actin filament ends by diverse factors

Jenna Beyer
Mentor: George Burslem, PhD
Thesis Title: Developing a method for protein editing in mammalian cells

Gabrielle Blizard
Mentor: Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD
Thesis Title: Imaging and control of cells and their neighbors

Adeola Fagunloye
Mentor: Kara Bernstein, PhD
Thesis Title: THE SHU COMPLEX INTERACTS WITH THE REPLICATIVE HELICASE TO BYPASS DNA DAMAGE

Sarah Gardner
Mentor: Ronen Marmorstein, PhD
Thesis Title: Molecular Characterization of 3B-hydroxysteriod-D5-C27-steroid Oxidoreductase and Discovery of Novel Inhibitors for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Christian Loo
Mentor: Rahul Kohli, MD, PhD
Thesis Title: Methodological advancements to enable longer reads for epigenetic sequencing and discrimination of the ternary code of DNA

Jennifer Ramirez
Mentors: E. James Petersson, PhD; Elizabeth Rhoades, PhD
Thesis Title: BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES TO INTERROGATE TAU AND ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN INTERACTIONS

Nicole Raniszewski
Mentor: George Burslem, PhD
Thesis Title: Sortase and chemical biology as tools to study ubiquitination

Janice Reynaga
Mentor: Andres Blanco, PhD
Thesis Title: A DOMAIN FOCUSED CRISPR SCREEN IDENTIFIES MEAF6 AS A VULNERABILITY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

Derick Rosario
Mentor: David Cormode, PhD
Thesis Title: NANOPARTICLE-BASED CONTRAST AGENTS FOR CT IMAGING, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, AND OTHER BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Kollin Schultz
Mentor: Ronen Marmorstein, PhD
Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation
Thesis Title: Structural Dynamics of Human Fatty Acid Synthase (FASN)

Yi Sun
Mentor: Nikolaos Sgourakis, PhD
Thesis Title: Unraveling the molecular basis of MHC-I antigen proofreading by the chaperone TAPBPR

Julianna Supplee
Mentors: Ronen Marmorstein, PhD; Kathryn Wellen, PhD
Thesis Title: Structural, biochemical and cancer related roles of ACLY splice isoforms