Current Students and Postdocs
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Reyyan Bulut
Graduate Student
Program in Molecular Medicinereyyan.bulut@umassmed.edu
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Roger (Kae-Jia) Chang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Molecular MedicineKae-Jia.Chang@umassmed.edu
(508) 856-5723I did my PhD training at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. My long-term research goal is to uncover the dark matter of our genome. The untranslated regions at the 3’ end of mRNAs contain important sequences that influences protein expression. I am studying evolutionary conserved elements in worms and humans that control the fate of the mRNA and thus protein synthesis.
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Ye (Oscar) Duan
Graduate Student
Program in Molecular Medicine
ye.duan@umassmed.edu
(508) 856-5723I received my Bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Biology and my Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Jilin University, China. I am interested in the functional specificity of let-7 family microRNAs.
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Zeynep Mirza
Graduate Student
Program in Molecular MedicineZeynep.Mirza@umassmed.edu
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Charles Nelson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Molecular Medicinecharles.nelson@umassmed.edu
(508) 856-5723I received my Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from The University of Massachusetts Medical School in the laboratory of Eric H. Baehrecke. I am currently interested in how microRNAs help confer biological robustness during animal development.
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Alejandro Vasquez Rifo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Molecular Medicine
alejandro.vasquezrifo@umassmed.edu
(508) 856-5723I received my Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Laval University.