About Student Research

Current and past student researchers include:

• Caroline D. Doherty (2022-present)
• Screening trillions of folded DNAs for toxin delivery to tumors
• Sherry X. Zhou (2022-present)
• How broken metabolism causes cancer
• Fatimah J. Al Khazal (2021-present)
  • Finding vulnerabilities in unusual cancers caused by metabolic defects
• Brandon A. Wilbanks (2019-present)
  • In vitro selection of novel DNAs that home to subcellular compartments
• Keenan S. Pearson (2019-present)
  • In vitro selection of novel DNAs for regenerative medicine
• David H. Tse (2017-2021)
  • DNA looping when proteins are involved
• John A. Smestad (2015-2019)
  • How do "oncometabolites" cause cancer?
• Lauren S. Mogil (2012-2016)
  • How does DNA supercoiling in cells affect DNA looping?
• Yeng F. Her (2011-2015)
  • Understanding cancer caused by defects in energy metabolism
• Estefania Mondragon (2011-2015)
  • New research tools built from RNA and DNA
• Justin P. Peters (2008-2012)
  • Getting back to basics with DNA
• John Paul Bida (2006-2011)
  • Building transcription factors from RNA
• Susan Wurster (2005-2009)
  • Searching vast random libraries of small RNAs for new inhibitors
• Emily Smith (2003-2008)
  • Linking metabolic defects and cancer
• Kasandra Jean-Louise Riley (2002-2007)
  • Surprises from the "guardian of the genome"
• Robert J. McDonald (2002-2006)
  • Making new proteins that bend DNA
• Tessa Davis (2002-2006)
  • What are the functions of HMGB proteins within living cells?
• Laura A. Cassiday (1999-2002)
  • Structural and functional studies of RNA aptamers selected as transcription factor inhibitors
• Phil Hardwidge (1998-2002)
  • New methods and studies of DNA intrinsic curvature and protein-induced DNA bending by electrostatic effects
• Paula Hoyne (1997-2001)
  • Potential for unusual DNA structures in model systems and living bacteria
• Eric Ross (1996-2001)
  • Importance of DNA flexibility in promoter architecture
• Nicole A. Becker (1995-1999)
  • In vivo footprinting approaches to searching for unusual DNA structures in living mammalian cells
• Lori Lebruska (1995-1999)
  • In vitro selection of RNAs that bind and inhibit DNA-binding proteins
• Julie Strauss-Soukup (1993-1997)
  • Understanding the role of electrostatics in DNA structure and flexibility
• Garrett Soukup (1993-1997)
  • In vitro selection methods to identify RNAs that bind duplex DNA
• Wendy Olivas (1992-1996)
  • Tools for application of oligonucleotide-directed DNA triple helix formation in molecular biology