Current Graduate Students
Nancy De La Cruz
- Hometown: Plano, Texas
- Undergrad: Texas Woman's University (Biology)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D.
- Project: Developmental metabolism and placental biology
Altair Dube
- Hometown: Newark, Delaware
- Undergrad: Florida Institute of Technology (Biological Sciences)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D.
- Project: Mechanisms of p300 activity during cell lineage specification
Taosha Gao
- Hometown: Suzhou, China
- Undergrad: Tongji University (Software Engineering)
- M.S.: Case Western Reserve University (Computing and Information Science)
- Ph.D. program: Biomedical Engineering
- Mentor: Gary Hon, Ph.D.
- Project: Gene regulatory networks
Noah Haggerty
- Hometown: Plano, Texas
- Undergrad: University of Texas at Austin (Human Biology)
- Ph.D. program: Biological Chemistry
- Mentor: Ben Sabari, Ph.D.
- Project: Transcriptional regulation via condensate formation
Yuyan Liu
- Graduate program: Biomedical Engineering
- Mentor: Gary Hon, Ph.D.
Zachary Markham
- Hometown: Leakey, Texas
- Undergrad: University of California, Davis (Cell Biology)
- Graduate program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Mentor: Gary Hon, Ph.D.
- Project: TF Interactions During Cell-state Reprogramming
Ryan O'Hara
- Hometown: Plano, Texas
- Undergrad: University of Texas at Dallas (Molecular Biology)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D.
- Project: Loss of heterochromatin at endogenous retroviruses creates competition for transcription factor binding
Camila Perez Lujan
- Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Undergrad: University of Buenos Aires (Molecular Biology)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: Ed Grow, Ph.D.
- Project: Epigenetics of the female reproductive system
Purbita Saha
- Hometown: Kolkata, India
- Undergrad: St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India (Biotechnology – BS and MS)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D.
- Project: Role of Histone Variant H3.3 in Enhancer Acetylation in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Weidan Song
- Hometown: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Undergrad: Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei, China (Biological Sciences)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D.
- Project: Molecular determinants of PARP1 substrate selection and catalytic activity
- Fellowship: American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
Anjana Sundarrajan
- Hometown: Chennai, India
- Undergrad: Manipal University, India (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentor: Gary Hon, Ph.D.
- Project: Functional characterization of non-coding variants in cardiac development
- Scholarship: JN Tata Scholarship for Higher Education of Indians
Jerry Wei Heng Tan
- Hometown: Singapore, Singapore
- Undergrad: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Biological Sciences)
- Graduate program: Genetics, Development and Disease
- Mentors: Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D. and Gary Hon, Ph.D.
- Project: Regulatory element to function and transposable elements