Please join us in congratulating the students who earned their Ph.D. in the Department during the 2024/25 academic year:

Caleb Embree (Singh lab) Molecular Genetics
“The Effects of Spliceosome Disruption on Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay"
Dr. Embree is now a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University.

Mowei Li (Hollick lab) Molecular Genetics
“Molecular mechanisms underlying non-Mendelian inheritance patterns”
Dr. Li is now a Quality Control Scientist at QIAGEN

Wenfang Liu (Herman lab) MCDB
“Characterizing Novel P-Body-Like Granules Induced by Microtubule Disruption and Their Role in Tubulin mRNA Degradation”
Dr. Liu is now a Resident Physician in pathology at the Wexner Medical Center.

Youngmin Park (Zhu lab) Molecular Genetics
“Epigenetic/Epitranscriptomic Regulation of Viral-Host Gene Expression”
Dr. Park is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.