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

Evie Proctor

Evie Proctor
Faculty Advisor:
Jingwei Cheng
Research Topic: DNA damage response pathways in Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Harrison Vedrani

Harrison Vedrani
Faculty Advisor:
Sean Edington
Research Topic: The structural and chemical properties of lanthanide binding peptides and how they influence their binding specificity

Yuri Kwon

Yuri Kwon
Faculty Advisor:
Krisztina Varga
Research Topic: Optically-active nanocrystals functionalized by chiral biomolecules  

Jenn Wang

Jenn (Lingshu) Wang
Faculty Advisor:
 Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Establishing neuronal hierarchy by in vivo calcium imaging

Sumaya Akter

Sumaya Akter
Faculty Advisor:
 Xuanmao Chen
Research Topic: Influence of Primary Cilia and Reelin on Postnatal Reverse Migration of Principal Neurons

Benjamin Wasson

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

Soheila Mirhosseiniardakani

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

Kaleb Ducharme

Kaleb Ducharme
Faculty Advisor: David Plachetzki
Research Topic: Investigating the composition, expression patterns, and evolutionary history of hagfish slime gland proteins.

Ciana Lazu

Ciana Lazu
Faculty Advisor: Anna O'Brien
Research Topic: Impacts of Non-Host Microbes on Microbiome Breeding Efficacy and its Relationship to Spatial Transcriptomics

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

 

Megan Garcia

Megan Garcia
Faculty Advisor: Louis Tisa
Research Topic: Copper tolerance mechanisms in the bacteria Frankia and their role in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants for heavy metal bioremediation

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

Santiago Rivera Reyes

Santiago Rivera Reyes
Faculty Advisor: Jeff Garnas
Research Topic: Evaluating ecological, nutritional, and genomic differences between the beech bark disease fungal agents N. faginata and N. ditissima and how those factors allow co-occurrence of the two species on the same host. 

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

Emma Kinerson

Emma Kinerson
Faculty Advisor: Anna O'Brien
Research Topic: Investigating plant-microbe interactions focusing on the role of diversity within microbe communities and their effect on duckweed genetics and phenotype.

Lawrence Gordon

Lawrence Gordon
Faculty Advisor: W. Kelley Thomas
Research Topic: Genomics for pathogen surveillance and host-pathogen interaction