Select Graduate Student Profiles

Kranti Galande

Kranti Galande
Faculty Advisor:
Rick Cote
Research Topic: Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases as a potential nematicides

 

 

 

 

 

Juan Yang

Juan Yang
Faculty Advisor:
Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: acid sensing ion channels (ASICs), primary cilia

 

Yuxin Zhou

Yuxin Zhou
Faculty Advisor:
Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Neuronal Primary Cilia, cAMP Signaling, Brain Ciliopathies

 

 

Allison Kloeckner

Allison Kloeckner
Faculty Advisor:
Sarah Walker
Research Topic: Comparing ovarian cancer and endometriosis

Mona Karbalivand

Mona Karbalivand
Faculty Advisor: Sherine Elsawa
Research Topic: Characterization of MLL1 role as an effector of TLR-MyD88 induced gene expression in Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) cancer

 

Ian Mills

Ian Mills
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Culligan
Research Topic: The role of RPA1 subunit paralogs on the repair of double stranded DNA breaks in Arabidopsis thaliana.

 

Soheila Mirhosseiniardakani

Soheila Mirhosseiniardakani
Faculty Advisor: Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Neuronal primary cilia pattern in the cortex

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Calawa

Jennifer Calawa
Faculty Advisor: Cheryl Whistler
Research Topic: Evolution of beneficial symbiosis using the Vibrio fischeri model system and increasing utility value in learning microbiology for undergraduate nursing students

Joy O'Brien

Joy O'Brien
Advisor: Jessica Ernakovich
Research Topic: Changes to microbial dormancy in the permafrost microbiome following permafrost thaw

Jonathan Sreter
 

Ryan Wilmot

Ryan Wilmot
Faculty Advisor: Louis Tisa
Research Topic: I'm studying the transcriptome of Blastococcus, rock-dwelling bacteria, during their primary colonization on a variety of rock surfaces.

Megan Worth

Megan Worth
Faculty Advisor: Louis Tisa
Research Topic: Studying the possible impacts of environmental stress on the typical specificity observed during the actinorhizal symbiosis, as well as on the community composition within the resulting nodules

 

 

Dani Blumstein

Danielle (Dani) Blumstein
Faculty Advisor: Matt MacManes
Research Topic: Investigating the physiology and genomics of desert adapted mice.

Haley Nolen

Haley Nolen
Faculty Advisor: Anissa Poleatewich
Research Topic: Assessment of molecular relationships among Peronospora variabilis isolates in New Hampshire and investigation of the Chenopodium microbiome for sources of beneficial microbes for use in space agriculture