Graduate Alumni

Name Degree
Year		   Mentor Thesis Title
Sarah Abdalla, M.S. 2012 Beth Bouchard Identification of the regions in factor V mediating its endocytosis by megakaryocytes to form the unique platelet-derived cofactor molecule
Ty Adams, Ph.D. 2004 Stephen Everse The X-ray crystal structure of activated protein C-inactivated coagulation factor Va
Jolanta Amblo, Ph.D. 2011 Kenneth Mann Posttranslational modifications and activity of natural human tissue factor
Amy Branagan, Ph.D. 2012 Scott Morrical Importance of DNA Binding of Gp59 Helicase Loader Protein in Bacteriophage T4
Maria Cristina Bravo, Ph.D. 2012 Stephen Everse Understanding the complexity of the protein C pathway
Shaina Byrne, Ph.D. 2009 Anne Mason Investigation of the Molecular Basis of Receptor Mediated Iron Release from Transferrin
Karen Champagne, Ph.D. 2005 Christopher Francklyn Allosteric Control of the Hetero-Octameric ATP-phosphoribosyl Transferase from L. Lactis Involves a Histidyl-tRNA Synthetase Paralog
Justin Decarreau, Ph.D. 2011 Christopher Berger Loops and switches : how ADP release is coordinated in smooth muscle myosin
Brian Eckenroth, Ph.D. 2007 Robert Hondal The mechanism of high Mr thioredoxin reductase investigated by semisynthesis and crystallography
Ammon Fager, M.D./Ph.D. 2009 Paula Tracy The Characterization of a Procoagulant Human Platelet Subpopulation
Joshua Farb, Ph.D. 2006 Scott Morrical Allosteric Regulatory Dynamics of the T4 Presynaptic Filament
Mindy Farris, Ph.D. 2008 Christopher Francklyn Regulation of gene expression by the retinoic acid receptor alpha requires synergistic binding of transcriptional co-factors and response to ligand
Ethan Guth, Ph.D. 2009 Christopher Francklyn tRNA Identity Mediated Control of the Catalytic Mechanism in E. coli Histidyl-tRNA Synthetase
Peter Halbrooks, Ph.D. 2004 Anne Mason Structural and functional investigation of human serum transferrin
Laura Haynes, Ph.D. 2012 Kenneth Mann The role of flow in regulating the prothrombinase complex
Nicholas James, Ph.D. 2009 Anne Mason Probing the Dynamic Conformational Changes of Human Serum transferrin Using Intrinsic Tryptophan Fluorescence
Anna Knapp, Ph.D. 2008 Robert Kelm Structural & Functional Characterization of Mouse Purβ: A single-stranded DNA_binding repressor of smooth muscle α-actin gene expression
Brian Lacey, M.S. 2008 Robert Hondal Investigation into the role of the C-Terminal vicinal cysteine residues in high MW theiredoxin reductases
Jie Liu, Ph.D. 2006 Scott Morrical A Dynamic View of T4 Presynaptic Filament Assembly
Adam Lothrop, Ph.D. 2012 Robert Hondal The mechano-enzymatic function of selenocysteine in thioredoxin reductases
Anand Minajigi, Ph.D. 2010 Christopher Francklyn Kinetic Mechanism and Fidelity of Aminoacylation by E. Coli Threonyl-tRNA Synthetase
Jon Ramsey, Ph.D. 2008 Robert Kelm Functional Characterization of the Sequence-Specific Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Properties of Mouse PurB
Gregg Snider, Ph.D. 2012 Robert Hondal The biological function of selenocysteine in enzymes: A perspective from thioredoxin reductase
Ashley Steere, Ph.D. 2012 Anne Mason Intermolecular interactions between human serum transferrin and the transferrin receptor that mediate pH-induced iron release
Hang Xu, Ph.D. 2005 Scott Morrical Biochemical and structural characterization of bacteiorphage T4 recombination/replication mediator proteins