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Student Directory

Student	Year	Lab	Research Project
Emily Adney	1		Starting fall 2009
Gustavo Afanador	3	Prigge 443-287-6695	Structure and function of cofactor ligases in malaria parasite 'Plasmodium falciparum'
Andrea Allgood	6	Barrick 410-516-7149	Thermodynamics and structural studies of Notch Signaling
Reza Behrouzi	4	Woodson 410-516-7348	Thermodynamics and kinetics of folding of large RNA molecules
Peregrine Bell-Upp	1		Starting fall 2009
Bill Bocik	7	Tolman 410-516-5782	Investigation of Ube2g2 structure and Ubiquitin binding by NMR spectroscopy
Andrew Buller	2	Townsend 410-516-8441	Currently completing coursework
Jackson Buss	3	Xiao 410-614-1760	Temporal and spatial regulation of bacterial cell division via fluorescence microscopy
Alfredo Caro	2	García-Moreno 410-516-4498	Currently completing coursework
Sid Chaudhury	5	Gray 410-516-7308	Incorporating backbone conformational plasticity in protein-protein docking
Tom Cleveland	3	Leahy 410-614-2533	Currently completing coursework
Carla Coltharp	1		Starting fall 2009
Emily Danoff	3	Fleming 410-516-5451	Folding mechanism of outer membrane beta-barrel proteins
Thuy Dao	3	Barrick 410-516-7149	Cooperativity in Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins
Elizabeth Denning	6	Woolf 410-614-4435	Molecular dynamic simulations of membrane proteins
Anthony Dibello	4	Wolberger 410-955-3967	Structural determinants of poly-ubiquitin chain specificity in the human de-ubiquitinating enzyme, ataxin-3
Brian Doctrow	3	García-Moreno 410-516-4498	Effects of conformational flexibility on protein pKa values
Krisna Duong-Ly	5	Amzel 410-955-8715	Biophysical and biochemical characterization of serine racemase and Nudix proteins
Katie Frato	6	Schleif 410-516-5207	Developing a strategy to measure very low affinity protein-protein interactions
Josh Friedman	5	Stivers 410-614-9644	Mechanistic studies of DNA repair glycosylases using NMR spectroscopy
John Gallagher	8	Prigge 443-287-6695	Biochemistry and structural biology of apicoplast drug targets in malaria
Anastasia Gentilcore	7	Woolf 410-614-4435	Membrane electrostatics and fusion using molecular dynamic simulations
Glenn Hauk	4	Bowman 410-516-3476	Structure and function of chromatin remodeling enzymes
Zach Hensel	5	Xiao 410-614-1760	Single-molecular visualization of autoregulatory expression in phage lambda
Katherine Jenkins			Starting fall 2009
Helen Jun	3	Stivers 410-614-9644	Dynamics of topoisomerase using fluorine NMR
Rene Kessler	1		Starting fall 2009
Sarah Kolitz	7	Lorsch 410-955-3064	Start codon selection
Cal Lauzon	7	van Zijl 410-955-4215	Development of an NMR sequence that will isolate protein signal in living cells
Desirae Leipply	6	Draper 410-516-7447	The effect of electrostatics on RNA folding
Andrei Levin	2	Stivers 410-614-9644	Currently completing coursework
Jacob Marold	1		Starting fall 2009
David Masica	7	Gray 410-516-7308	Inverse folding theory, a.k.a. protein design
Megan McDonald	4	Green 410-614-4928	Single molecule studies of Release Factor
Sarah Mitchell	7	Lorsch 410-955-3064	mRNA recruitment to the ribosome
Preston Moon	6	Fleming 410-516-5451	Energetics of folding of membrane proteins
Sabin Mulepati	2	Bailey 443-287-4988	Currently completing coursework
Tony Munoz	1		Starting fall 2009
Rodrigo Ortiz-Meoz	7	Green 410-614-4928	Exploring the causes of inefficient in vitro translation in eukaryotic systems
Jared Parker	6	Stivers 410-614-9644	NMR structural and dynamic studies to understand the DNA damage specificity of human uracil DNA glycosylase
Lauren Perskie	5	Rose 410-516-6889	Making a parts list of the loops in proteins
Ammon Posey	2	Hill 410-516-6790	Currently completing coursework
Matt Preimesberger	3	Lecomte 410-516-7699	Mutational perturbation and NMR spectroscopy of cyanobacterial hemoglobins
Mollie Rappe	1		Starting fall 2009
Alison Ringel	1		Starting fall 2009
Aaron Robinson	5	García-Moreno 410-516-4498	Investigation of the cost of buried ionizable groups in protein interiors
Nadine Samara	5	Wolberger 410-955-3967	Ubiquitin signaling in non-degradative pathways
Joseph Schonhoft	1		Starting fall 2009
Jennifer Seedorff	5	Schleif 410-516-5207	Investigation of TetR's mechanism of allosteric regulations
Josh Sims	6	Pickart/Cohen 410-614-3734	Toward understanding specificity among ubiquitin system proteins
Robin Thottungal	1		Starting fall 2009
Robert Trachman	2	Draper 410-516-7447	Currently completing coursework
Jeff Werbin	7	Hoh 410-614-3796	Developing thin film microbalances and their biological applications
Ben Winer	2	Lecomte 410-516-7699	Currently completing coursework

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