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

Hannah Hagearty

Hannah Hagearty
Faculty Advisor:
Rick Cote
Research Topic: Integrative structural modeling of the RGS9-1-Gβ5-R9AP complex using XL-MS

Victoria Aumann

Victoria Aumann
Faculty Advisor:
Jingwei Cheng
Research Topic: Characterizing the role of the NOTCH pathway in Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Benjamin Wasson

Benjamin Wasson
Faculty Advisor: Cheryl Whistler
Research Topic: Vibrio parahaemolyticus association with developing hatchery oysters

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 Garcia

Megan Garcia
Faculty Advisor: Louis Tisa
Research Topic: Working to characterize the genes responsible for copper tolerance in a bacterial symbiont of actinorhizal plants, Frankia inefficax, with an interest in understanding how these tolerance mechanisms may impact the efficiency of the symbiosis in the bioremediation of heavy metals.

Alyssa Daigle

Alyssa Daigle
Faculty Advisor: Anna O'Brien
Research Topic: Investigating the effects of duckweed genotypes, microbiomes (including toxin-producing cyanobacteria), and co-occurring species on the quality and safety of duckweed as a green manure

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