Current MCCB Students

Hayes Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Levi is elucidating the function of the mitochondrial protease LONP1.

Mercurio Lab | Translational Science Program
Prajakta is studying mechanisms that drive tumor metastasis and therapy resistance in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). She aims to selectively target this aggressive cell population by developing novel strategies to induce ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of cell death, as it exploits the metabolic vulnerabilities of tumor cells, offering a promising approach to overcome therapy resistance.

Lodato Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Cesar is working on understanding the role of mutational mosaicism in normal aging and its age-associated diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease in the brain

Kim Lab | Program in Cancer Biology
Brennon is elucidating how rare metabolic diseases may inform metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer.

Ruscetti Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Shaw Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Lodato Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Bradley is investigating the role of somatic mutations in rare diseases of DNA damage repair.

Flavahan Lab | Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology
Serena is developing methods to DNA damage through modified base Nanopore sequencing for improving therapeutic avenues.

Kim Lab | MD/PhD Program

Mercurio Lab | MD/PhD Program

Kim & Cantor Labs | Cancer Biology Program
Joseph is interested in the modulation of the glutathione biosynthesis pathway as an approach to HR-deficent cancers.

Baehrecke Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Jasmine's research goal is to establish a model for the selective degradation of peroxisomes (pexophagy) in the developing fly gut

Haynes Lab | MD/PhD Program

Sookyung is identifying mitochondrial dysfunction regulators.

Tissenbaum Lab

Flavahan Lab | MD/PhD Program
"Developing sequencing-based metabolite sensor to study nuclear acetyl-CoA metabolism"

Ruscetti Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Cantor Lab | Cancer Biology Program
"The replication stress response and therapy resistance in BRCA mutated cancers"

Ruscetti & Atukorale Labs | Cancer Biology Program

Ruscetti Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Lodato & Brown Labs | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Sushmita is interested in understanding somatic mosaicism in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 

Flavahan Lab

Ruscetti Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Baehrecke Lab

Kelliher Lab | Cancer Biology Program
Erica is interested in researich therapeiutic targets and their pathways to combat leukemogenesis.

Castilla & Gregory Labs | Cancer Biology Program

Flavahan & Abdennur Labs

Kim Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Flavahan Lab | Cancer Biology Program
"Examining the DNA methylation and histone acetylation landscapes of glioblastoma cell lines using Nanopore sequencing-based techniques"

Tissenbaum Lab 

Kelliher Lab | Cancer Biology Program