Please join us in congratulating the students who earned their Ph.D. in the Department during the 2023/24 academic year:

Hari Krishnan Balasubramanian (Osmani lab) MCDB 
“Mitochondrial dynamics and fate during Aspergillus nidulans biofilm formation."
Dr. Balasubramanian is now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Madhoolika Bisht (Tu lab) Molecular Genetics
“Differential regulation of  chromosome territory organization in osteoblasts and osteosarcoma.”

Derek Boehm (Bird lab) Molecular Genetics
“Factors Affecting Activity of Two Zinc-responsive Proteins in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.”

Ashley Castelloe (Dawes lab) Molecular Genetics
“C. elegans and C. briggsae Show a Species‐Specific Difference in Dependence on EGF Signaling in Both the VPC and P12 Cell Fate Decisions”

Courtney Dresden (Husbands lab) MCDB
“New regulatory inputs controlling an essential and deeply conserved family of transcription factors"
Dr. Dresden is now an NIH-IRACDA PennPORT Postdoctoral Fellow at U. Penn.

Geremy Lerma (Amacher lab) Molecular Genetics
“Modeling genetic modifiers of  Duchenne muscular dystrophy using zebrafish”
Dr. Lerma is now a postdoctoral fellow at OSU

Isabella Mendes (Meier lab) MCDB
“The role of kinesins in male-derived fertility in Arabidopsis thaliana."
Dr. Mendes is now a lecturer in Molecular Genetics at OSU

Benjamin Oakes (Hollick lab) MCDB
“The role of maize RNA polymerase IV and its sourced 24nt sRNAs in affecting heritable gene regulation”

Shayne Plourde (Dawes lab) MCDB
“Molecular Mechanisms of Pattern Formation Using in silico and in vivo Models”|
Dr. Plourde is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Priscila Rodriguez Garcia (Herman lab) Molecular Genetics
“Deciphering the Role of P-bodies in Modulating Protein Aggregates and Their Targeting to the Insoluble Protein Deposit”
Dr. Rodriguez is a microscopy specialist with Nikon

Manu Sanjeev (Singh lab) MCDB
“PYM1 modulates exon junction complex occupancy to regulate mRNA fate"
Dr. Sanjeev is now a postdoctoral fellow at OSU

Hanieh Taheri (Sparreboom/Hu lab) Molecular Genetics
“The role of OATP1Bs in the hepatic uptake and adverse effects of aromatase inhibitors.”
Dr. Taheri is now a Senior Scientist at Eurofins