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Name: Soumya De
Position: Graduate Student
Program: Biophysics
Minor: Biochemistry
Favorite NMR Acronym: INEPT
Favorite Food: Anything spicy
Favorite Quote: “Success is a lousy teacher.” -Bill Gates
Contact Info: sd272@cornell.edu |
Soumya did his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in India in the field of Industrial Chemistry. He arrived in Cornell to pursue his PhD. Prof. Nicholson's course 'Protein Structure, Function and Dynamics' in the first semester introduced him to the fascinating world of protein NMR and he joined the lab in 2005. Since, then he is studying the enzyme kinetics of the protein Pin1 which is a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase and has been implicated in Alzheimer's Disease. His other project is to design substrate analogues for the enzyme and use them in proteomics studies. |
Name: Sarah Denial
Position: Graduate Student
Program: Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
Minor: Biophysics
Favorite NMR Acronym: HOESY
Favorite Food: Popcorn
Favorite Quote: Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~Wernher Von Braun
Contact Info: sjd85@cornell.edu |
Sarah graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. At RIT, Sarah worked in the lab of Suzanne O’Handley on proteins of the Nudix Hydrolase superfamily from M. tuberculosis. Through knockout mutagenesis, she phenotypically studied orf135 from E. coli, homolog of Rv1160 of M. tuberculosis. Sarah is working on the the Pin1/Alzheimer’s Project. |
Name: Jolita Seckute
Position: Graduate Student
Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Minor: Theoretical Chemistry
Favorite NMR Acronym: WAEFRTISY (When-All-Else-Fails-Read-The-Instructions Spectroscopy
Favorite Food: Ice Cream
Favorite Quote: Never replicate a successful experiment.
Contact Info: js484@cornell.edu |
Jolita graduated with a BS in chemistry from Truman State University in 2004. |
Name: Alex Greenwood
Position: Graduate Student
Program: Biophysics
Minor: BMCB
Favorite NMR Acronym: HOHAHA
Favorite Food: Tempeh Scallopini
Favorite Quote: "Assume a spherical cow of uniform density, radiating milk equally in all directions."
Contact Info: aig35@cornell.edu |
Alex hails from a small town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University. A physics major as an undergrad, he worked in the Nagle lab, which uses x-ray diffraction, often with synchrotron radiation from CHESS, to probe the structure of lipid bilayers. In joining the Nicholson Lab, Alex has switched gears a little, but he still straddles the line between applied physics and molecular biology working on the LigB project. When not in the lab, Alex can be found in the kitchen, stumbling through a vegetarian recipe. |
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Name: Jennifer Dawson
Position in the lab: Graduate Student
Thesis: Barriers to Translocation Stability Kinetics and Acid Denaturatio of AvrPto
Duration: Aug. 02 - Aug. 08
Current Position: PostDoc in the lab of Dr. Forman-Kay, U. Toronto
Name: Lea Vacca Michel
Position in the lab: Postdoc
Graduate Univeristy: University of Rochester
Thesis: Effects of Conformational Dynamics on Bacterial Cytochrome c Function
Duration: Aug. 07 - May 08
Contact Information: CytochromeC@gmail.com
Name: Sam Schueler
Position in the lab: Undergraduate Student
Thesis: Sam worked with Jenn Dawson on the AvrPto project.
Duration: Sept. 06 - May. 08
Undergrad Awards: Hughes Scholar, Summer '07
Name: Mohamed Al-Kazaz
Position in the lab: Hughes Summer Research Student from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Duration: June 08 - Aug. 08
Current Position: Medical Student at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Name: Jennifer Wulf
Position in the lab: Graduate Student
Thesis: NMR Studies of Two Disparate Systems: Structure Determination of the Folded Core of the Pseudomonas Effector Protein, AvrPto; and Characterization of the Unstructured Cytoplasmic Domain of the Insulin Regulated Aminopeptidase, IRAP
Duration: Aug. 97 - Jan. 04
Name: Norma Pawley
Position in the lab: Graduate Student
Thesis: Characterization of Protein Dynamics byNuclear Magnetic Resonance: Methods, Application and Interpretation in Synthetic Systems and Outer Surface Protein A
Duration: Aug. 96 - Aug. 02
Name: Jeffery Reinking
Position in the lab: Graduate Student
Thesis: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Two Poorly Behaved Protein Systems: Chicken C-SRC SH3-SH2 and Monomeric RSV Protease Mutant
Duration: Aug. 96 - Jan 02
Name: Theresa Ramelot
Position in the lab: Graduate Student
Thesis: Cytoplasmic Tail and Phosphorylation Induced Structural Changes Detected By Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Duration: Aug. 96 - Jan. 01
Name: Chunyu Wang
Position in the lab: Graduate Student
Thesis: Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Two Model Systems: E. coli Thiamin Biosynthesis Pathway Protein ThiS and Chicken C-SRC SH3 Domain
Duration: Aug. 96 - Aug. 00 |
