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  Bianca Dullabh 
   
  High school student

​  Catch-Them-Young program
  Time in lab: 05/2018 - 07/2018

  Worked on synthesizing unnatural amino acids for incorporation into ubiquitin.

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Stacey Jones
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Email: sjones178@student.gsu.edu

B.S., 2018, Georgia State University
Time in lab: 05/2016 - 07/2018
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Worked on incorporating unnatural amino acids into ubiquitin. 

Current Position: Post-baccalaureate at the University of Chicago

Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NSF-LSAMP), Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (NIH-IMSD), and the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship of the Molecular Basis of Disease Program (MBD).

Traveling Award for 2017 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students


Stacey Jones' 2017 Traveling Award to ABRCMS
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Geng Chen

Email: gchen8@gsu.edu

B.S., 2008, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China​
Ph.D., 2012, Baylor University
Postdoctoral associate, University of Texas at Austin, 2012-2014
Postdoctoral associate, Georgia State University, 2014-2018
Worked on engineering orthogonal ubiquitin transfer (OUT) cascade for Parkin and HHARI

Current position: Chinese University of Hong Kong



Geng Chen, Alicia K Rogers, Garrett P League and Sang-Chul Nam (2011) Genetic interaction of Centrosomin and Bazooka in apical domain regulation in Drosophila photoreceptor. PLoS ONE 6(1): e16127.

Geng Chen, Garrett P League and Sang-Chul Nam (2010) Role of Spastin in apical domain control along the rhabdomere elongation in Drosophila photoreceptor. PLos ONE 5(3): e9480.

Tony W. Chen*, Geng Chen*, Lisa J. Funkhouser and Sang-Chul Nam(2009) Membrane domain modulation by spectrins in Drosophila photoreceptor morphogenesis. Genesis 47(11), 744-750. *Equal Authorship



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​Nicolas A. Rios

​Email: nrios4@student.gsu.edu 

​B.S., 2016, Armstrong State University
M.S., 2018, Georgia State University
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Time in lab: 08/2016 - 05/2018
​Worked on engineering a xE2-xE3 pair with the Ring E3 RNF38

​Current position: Idexx Laboratories in Atlanta 

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Yiyang Wang
Email: wangyiyang@jnu.edu.cn

B.M., 2007, Xinxiang Medical University (Henan, China)
M.S., 2010, Medical School of Jinan University (Guangzhou, China) 
M.D., Ph.D., 2013, Medical School of Jinan University (Guangzhou, China)

Time in lab: 09/2013 - 12/2016
Postdoctoral associate, Peter Schultz's lab, The Scripps Research Institute, 2017-2018

Current position: Associate Professor, Jinan University Medical School, Guangzhou, China


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​Wang YY, Li HM, Wang HD et al. Pretreatment with Berberine and
Yohimbine Protects Against LPS-Induced Myocardial Dysfunction Via Inhibition of Cardiac I-κBα Phosphorylation and Apoptosis in Mice. Shock, 2011, 35(3): 322-328.

Wang YY, Yu X, Wang HD et al. Yohimbine promotes cardiac NE release and prevents LPS-induced cardiac dysfunction via blockage of presynaptic a2A-adrenergic receptor. PLoS One. 2013 May 14; 8 (5):e63622.

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​Karan Bhuripanyo
Email: kb27787@hotmail.com

B.S. in Biochemistry, 2009, Baylor University
M.S. in Chemistry (organic), 2011, University of Chicago
Ph.D. in Chemistry (organic), 2016, University of Chicago



​Time in lab: 01/2012 - 08/2016
Current position: Qiagen, Thailand.




​Zhao, B., Bhuripanyo, K., Zhang, K., Kiyokawa, H., Schindelin, H. & Yin, J. (2012). Orthogonal Ubiquitin Transfer through Engineered E1-E2 Cascade for Protein Ubiquitination. Chem Biol, 19, 1265-77.

Zhao, B., Choi, C. H., Bhuripanyo, K., Villhauer, E., Zhang, K. & Yin, J. (2012). Inhibiting ubiquitin transfer through the E1-E2-E3 cascade by short peptides. Organic Letters 14, 5760-3.

Zhao, B., Bhuripanyo, K., Schneider, J., Zhang, K., Schindelin, H., Boone, D. & Yin, J. (2012). Specificity of the E1-E2-E3 Enzymatic Cascade for Ubiquitin C-terminal Sequences Identified by Phage Display. ACS Chem Biol, 7, 2027-35.

Zhang, K., Nelson, K. M., Bhuripanyo, K., Grimes, K. D., Zhao, B., Aldrich, C. C. & Yin, J. (2013). Engineering the substrate specificity of the DhbE adenylation domain by yeast cell surface display. Chem Biol, 20, 92-101.

Zhang, K., Lin, H., Bhuripanyo, K., Zhao, B., Zheng, N. & Yin, J. (2013). Engineering New Protein-Protein Interactions on the β-Propeller Fold by Yeast Cell Surface Display. ChemBioChem, 14, 426-30.

Zhao, B., Zhang, K., Bhuripanyo, K., Choi, C. H., Villhauer, E. B., Li, H., Zheng, N., Kiyokawa, H., Schindelin, H., and Yin, J. (2013) Profiling the cross reactivity of ubiquitin with the nedd8 activating enzyme by phage display, PLoS One 8, e70312.
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Zhao, B., Zhang, K., Villhauer, E. B., Bhuripanyo, K., Kiyokawa, H., Schindelin, H., and Yin, J. (2013) Phage display to identify nedd8-mimicking peptides as inhibitors of the nedd8 transfer cascade, ChemBiochem, 14, 1323-1330.

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​Jiarong Zhong
Email: jzhong4@student.gsu.edu

B.S., 2016, Georgia State University

Time in Lab: 09/2014 - 08/2015

Current position: Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology, Georgia State University.

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Archana Iyer

Email: farchana1@student.gsu.edu

B.S. in Biotechnology, 2011, North Dakota State University, Advisor: Professor Eugene Berry.
M.S. in Biotechnology, 2014, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Advisor: Professor Tino Unlap. 

​Time in the lab: 09/2014-11/2015
Current Position: Ph.D. student, Georgia State University.

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Patrick Major



B.S. in Chemistry, 2013, Georgia State University
M.S. in Chemistry, 2014, Georgia State University

Time in the lab: 01/2014 - 12/2014
​Current position: Pharm.D. student, University of Georgia, Athens. 




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Jessica Siemer
Email: jsiemer1@student.gsu.edu

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2014, Georgia Institute of Technology


Time in the lab: 09/2014 - 10/2015
​Current position: Ph.D. student, Georgia State University

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Linda Soegiarto


B.S. in Chemistry, 2014, Georgia State University



​Time in the lab: 09/2014 - 08/2015





Allison SA, Wu H, Moyher A, Soegiarto L, Truong B, Nguyen D, Nguyen T, and Park D, (2014) Coarse-Grained Modelling of the Titration and Cobhavior of Aqueous Fullerene Hexa Malonic Acid (FHMA) Solutions, J.Phys. Chem. B, 118, 3150 - 3155.


Allison SA, Wu H, Tuyen M, Dang L, Huynh GH, Soegiarto L, Truong B, and Nguyen T, (2014) Specific Ion Effects on the Electrophoretic Mobility of Small, Highly Charged Peptides, A Modelling Study. in press.

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​Johnny Truong


​B.S., 2014, Georgia State University

Time in the lab: 09/2013 - 06/2014, Undergraduate research assistant.

Current position: Ph.D. student, University of California at Berkeley.



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Bo Zhao
Email: bozhao@sjtu.edu.cn

B.S., 2002; M.S., 2005; Ph.D., 2009; Jilin University (Jilin, China)


Time in the lab: 04/2010 - 06/2013, Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

Current position: Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China



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​Keya Zhang


B.S., 2006, Peking University
Ph.D., 2012, University of Chicago

Time in Lab: 01/2007 - 06/2012, Graduate student at the University of Chicago.

Current position: DuPont Research & Development Center in Shanghai, China.