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Tomaya Carpenter
M.S. student: 05/2016 - present
Email: tcarpenter4@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2016, Georgia State University
I am working on incorporating unnatural amino acids into ubiquitin.
Geng Chen
Postdoctoral associate, 06/2014 - present.
Email: gchen8@gsu.edu
B.S., 2008, China Agricultural University (Beijing, China)
Ph.D., 2012, Baylor University
Postdoctoral scholar, 2012-2014, University of Texas at Austin
My research interests lie in the area of protein ubiquitination, with a focus on engineering OUT cascade on RBR E3s.
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
Stacey Jones
Undergraduate researcher: 05/2016 - present
Email: sjones178@student.gsu.edu
Undergraduate student, Georgia State University
I am working on incorporating unnatural amino acids into ubiquitin.
I have been supported by 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
Ruochuan Liu
Ph.D. student: 09/2016 - present
Email: rliu8@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2012, Wuhan University
M.S., 2015, City University of Hong Kong
I am working on identifying the substrates of HECT E3s.
Design and synthesis of near-infrared fluorescent probes for imaging of biological nitroxyl. Tan, Y., Liu, R., Zhang, H., Peltier, R., Lam, Y., Zhu, Q., Hu, Y. & Sun, H. Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 16979. (co-first author)
Lu, H., Zhang, H., Chen, J., Zhang, J., Liu, R., Sun, H., Zhao, Y., Chai, Z. & Hua, Y. A thiol fluorescent probe reveals the intricate modulation of cysteine's reactivity by Cu(II). Talanta. 2016, 146, 477-482.
Zhang, H., Liu, R., Liu, J., Li, L., Wang, P., Yao, S., Xu, Z. & Sun, H. A minimalist fluorescent probe for differentiating Cys, Hcy and GSH in live cells. Chem. Sci. 2015, published online.
Zhang, H., Xie Y., Wang, P., Chen, G., Liu, R., Lam, Y., Hu, Y., Zhu, Q. & Sun, H. An iminocoumarin benzothiazole-based fluorescent probe for imaging hydrogen sulfide in living cells. Talanta. 2015, 135, 149-154.
Zhang, H., Zhang, C., Liu, R., Yi, L. & Sun, H. A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent thiol probe through dual-reactive and dual-quenching groups. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 2029-2032.
Zhang, H., Liu, R., Tan, Y., Xie Y., W. H., Lei, H., Cheung, H. & Sun, H. A FRET-based ratiometric fluorescent probe for nitroxyl detection in living cells. Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2015, 7, 5438–5443.
Nicolas A. Rios
M.S. student: 09/2016 - present
Email: nrios4@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2016, Armstrong State University
I am working on engineering a xE2-xE3 pair with the Ring E3 RNF38.
Han Zhou
Ph.D. student: 09/2013 - present
Email: hzhou15@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2012, Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China)
M.S., 2013, Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China)
Advisor: Professor Junyi Liu
I am working on the design and synthesis of peptides-adenosine conjugates to inhibit protein modification by ubiquitin.
Li Zhou
Ph.D. student: 01/2015 - present
Email:lzhou5@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2014, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (Hangzhou, China)
I am engineering OUT cascades with Ring E3s Cbl-b and c-Cbl.
