Current MCCB Students

Hayes Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Elucidating the function of the mitrochondrial protease LONP1

Lodato | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Ceasar is working on understanding the role of mutational mosaicism in normal aging and its age-associated diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease in the brain

Dohoon Kim | Program in Cancer Biology
"Elucidating how rare metabolic diseases may inform metabolic vulnerabilites in cancer"

Mercurio Lab | Cancer Biology Program
Arkadyuti is exploring the role of NK cells in the ferroptosis-induced death of cancer cells

Fazzio Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

The functional role of R-loop in stem cell differentiation

Lodato Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Bradley is investigating the role of somatic mutations in rare diseases of DNA damage repair.

Flavahan Lab | Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology
"Detecting DNA damage through modified base Nanopore sequencing for improving therapeutic avenues"

Mercurio Lab | 

Kim Lab | Cancer Biology Program
Joseph is interested in the modulation of the glutathione biosynthesis pathway as an approach to HR-deficent cancers.

Benanti Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Mackenzie is interested in understanding the mechanisms of crosstalk between stress-response pathways

Baehrecke Lab | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Jasmine's research goal is to establish a model for the selective degradation of peroxisomes (pexophagy) in the developing fly gut

Wolfe Lab

Lawson Lab

Lodata | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
"Understanding the role of neuronal somatic mutations in brain aging"

Mercurio | Cancer Biology
Current research involves understanding the role of the integrin β4 in aggressive cancers and tumor heterogeneity

Haynes Lab | MD/PhD Program, Cancer Biology

Sookyung is studying identifying mitochondrial dysfunction regulators

Flavahan Lab | MD/PhD Program
"Developing sequencing-based metabolite sensor to study nuclear acetyl-CoA metabolism"

Mercurio Lab | MD/PhD Program
"The Role of Neuropilin-2 in radiotherapy resistance of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer"

Cantor Lab | Cancer Biology Program

Silvia is investigating mechanisms of DNA replication stress response in the Fanconi anemia pathway.

Shaw | Cancer Biology Program
Michael is exploring the role of the insulin receptor and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor in breast cancer progression and metastasis

Ruscetti Lab

Cantor Lab | Cancer Biology Program
"The replication stress response and therapy resistance in BRCA mutated cancers"

Ruscetti & Atukorale Labs

Ruscetti Lab

Lodato & Brown Labs | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Sushmita is interested in understanding somatic mosaicism in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 

Flavahan Lab |

Ruscetti Lab

Baehrecke | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
"Identifying novel genetic relationships to VPS13D that are implicated in mitrochondrial-selective autophagy in Drosophila development"

Kelliher Lab | Cancer Biology Program
Erica is interested in researich therapeiutic targets and their pathways to combat leukemogenesis.

Shaw Lab | MD/PhD Program
"Investigating downstream mechanisms of IRS2-driven breast cancer progression”

Flavahan Lab | Cancer Biology Program
"Examining the DNA methylation and histone acetylation landscapes of glioblastoma cell lines using Nanopore sequencing-based techniques"

Kelliher Lab