Current Lab Members
Tingting Yao, Ph.D.
B.S., 1996, Biochemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Ph.D., 2002, Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (Advisor: Dr. Robert E. Cohen)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO (Advisors: Drs. Joan and Ron Conaway)
Current Research Interests: Regulation of gene expression and chromatin dynamics by ubiquitin conjugation and deconjugation.
Robert E. Cohen, Ph.D.
A.B., 1974, Biochemistry/Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Ph.D., 1980, Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Advisor: Dr. C.E. Ballou)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 1985, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Advisor: Dr. Howard Schachman)
Current Research Interests: Recognition and dynamics of ubiquitin signals
Aixin Song, Ph.D.
B.S., 1995, Chemistry, Shanxi University, Shanxi, China
M.S., 1998, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Shanxi, China
Ph.D., 2002, Bioinorganic and Protein Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Current Research Interests: Ubiquitin-proteasome system, protein-protein interactions, structure-function relationship of proteins
Past Lab Members
Name | Lab Position | Where they are now | Contact |
Nouf Omar Al-Afaleq | Graduate Student (YAO LAB) | Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia | |
Ada Ndoja | Graduate Student (YAO LAB) | Postdoctoral Associate, Genentech | |
Lindsey Long | Graduate Student (YAO LAB) | ASERT-IRACDA Fellow, UNM Health Sciences Center | http://hsc.unm.edu/research/brep/postdoctoral/asert/fellow-profiles.html |
Melonnie Furgason | Postdoc (YAO LAB) | Assistant Professor, Kettering College, Ohio | melonnie.furgason@kc.edu |
Joseph Thelen | Undergraduate (YAO LAB) | MD/PhD student, U of Kansas, Medical Center | |
Miguel Gutierrez | Undergraduate (YAO LAB) | graduate student, Simon Fraser University, Canada | |
Andrew Roddam | Undergraduate (YAO LAB) | Aerotek Scientific, CA | |
Eric Cooper | Postdoc (COHEN and PICKART LABs) | Assistant Professor, Hartwick College, NY | |
Joshua Sims | Graduate Student (COHEN LAB) | Scientist, DuPont Chemical Co., Wilmington, DE | |
Candice Carlile | Graduate Student (COHEN and PICKART LABs) | Assistant Professor, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC | |
Matthew Steele | Graduate Student (COHEN and PICKART LABs) | U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD | |
Ling Song | Graduate Student (COHEN LAB) | Scientist, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, MA | |
Steve Riddle | Graduate Student (COHEN LAB) | Senior Scientist, Proteovista LLC, Madison, WI | |
Wei Xu | Graduate Student (COHEN LAB) | Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI | http://mcardle.wisc.edu/bio/xu_w.html |