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Former Lab Members:

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Janice L. Robertson

janice.robertson@wustl.edu

Janice is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics in the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO. In 2018, she relocated her laboratory after 5 years in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

Honours B. Sc. - Theoretical Physiology & Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada. Thesis: Local anesthetic binding to Na+ channels, Advisor: Peter Backx

Ph. D. - Physiology & Biophysics, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York City, NY. Thesis: Modeling ion behavior in inward rectifier K+ channels. Advisors: Benoit Roux & Larry Palmer

Postdoctoral Training - Biochemistry & Biophysics, HHMI, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Advisor: Christopher Miller 

 

Research Laboratory Supervisor: Robyn Mahoney-Kruszka

r.mahoney@wustl.edu

Robyn joined the lab after spending three and a half years as a contractor at Monsanto/Bayer, where she worked on developing RNAi technologies for insect control. Prior to that, she spent a summer as a field researcher for the Insectarium at the St. Louis Zoo.

B. Sc. - Biology, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Research interests: The impact of lipid composition, dialysis temperature, and pH on Cl- transport, fluorescent tagging of proteins with mGFP.

 

Senior Scientist: Rahul Chadda

rahulc@wustl.edu

 

Postdoc Research Associate: Gladys Díaz Vázquez

gladysv@wustl.edu

 

Postdoc Research Associate: Sumana PYNE

pyne@wustl.edu

Sumana joined lab after completing her PhD programme from S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, where she worked on structure/hydration behaviour of lipid membranes, cholesterol using spectroscopic techniques (THz, TCSPC).

B. Sc.- Physics (major), Mathematics and Chemistry (minor), Burdwan University, West Bengal, India

M. Sc.- Physics, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, West Bengal, India

Research Interest: The microenvironment & dynamics of CLC-ec1 in membrane interfaces.

 

Graduate STUDENT: Nathan Zelt

n.zelt@wustl.edu

Nathan is a graduate student in the Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology program. He joined the lab after a year of working as a lab tech where he researched membrane protein folding and regulation.

B. Sc. - Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Research interests: The evolution of different oligomers within the APC superfamily.

 

Research Technician I: Ayush Mishra

amishra@wustl.edu

B. A. - Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Research Interests: Structure and sequence comparison of functional subfamilies in ClC.

 

Rotation Student: Eun Sil Rollins

e.a.rollins@wustl.edu

Eun Sil is a current rotation student in the Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology program. She decided to rotate in the Robertson lab to broaden her experience with diverse biophysical techniques for studying proteins. 

B. A. - Biochemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Research Interests: Biophysical approaches to functional and mechanistic studies of proteins.

 

Postdoc Research Associates:

Smiruthi Ramasubramanian

Tugba Ozturk

Graduate Students:

Kacey Mersch

Taeho Lee

Melanie Ernst

Undergraduate Students:

Elvin Ding

Jennifer Chen

Maeve McFadden

Rotation Students:

Evan Pardue

Sandra Cardenas Garcia

Anshuman Jaysingh

Kyle Cotter

Ella Mozier

Audrey Orlowski

Audrey Chinn

Research Technicians:

Kenny Zhang