Student Alumni

• Dr. Meelad Dawlaty (Cancer Biology Program)

  Thesis: Chromosomal Instability Genes in Cancer and Aging
  Current Status: MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, laboratory of Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch

• Dr. Rebecca Schmidt

  Thesis: Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of the Ras-Mediated Tumorigenesis in Vivo
  Current Status: Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO

• Dr. Ruilin Zhang

  Thesis: Molecular Genetics of Telethonin/ T-cap
  Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at San Diego

• Dr. Joshua Burgess

  Thesis: Determining the Meiotic Regulators of the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen, Pneumocystis carinii
  Current Status: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Microbiology and Immunology

• Dr. Kasandra Riley (Maher lab 2002-2007), Postdoc (2007-present)

  Current Status: Department of Biophysics & Biochemistry and HHMI, Yale University. Advisor: Joan Steitz

• Rod Rahimi

  Thesis: Regulation of transforming growth factor-b cell type-specific signaling by mammalian target of rapamycin complexes
  Current Status: Student in the Mayo M.D./Ph.D. program