Trainee Careers

Trainee Careers

Part I. Those Appointed to the Training Grant (T32 slots funded by NIGMS)

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Trainee	Faculty Member	Start Date	Terminal Degree(s) Received and Year(s)(s)	Topic of Research Project	Initial Position	Current Position	Subsequent Grant(s)/ Role/Year Awarded
Vilza, Igi	Lyon, Angeline	Jul-19	MS, 2022	Biophysical studies of phospholipase Cb on lipid monolayers and bilayers	Research and Development Scientist MilliporeSigma, St. Louis, MO	Research and Development Scientist MilliporeSigma, St. Louis, MO
Verburgt, Jacob	Kihara, Daisuke	Jul-19	In training	Prediction of lipid- membrane protein interactions
Scrudders, Kevin L.	Low-Nam, Shalini	Jul-19	In training	Fast, high-resolution microscopy to quantify single molecules involved in CAR T cell signal integration
Peters, Ryan	Kuhn, Richard	Jul-21	In training	Characterizing the structure and antibody binding of HCV glycoproteins
Ozcan, Kadir	Jiang, Wen	Jul-19	In training	Structure of amyloids from neurodegenerative diseases
Mahurkar, Ketaki	Lyon, Angeline	Jul-21	In training	Activation of PLCe by Ras Isoforms
Janjua, Hunain	Tesmer, John	Jul-21	In training	Structural and functional investigations of GRK5 in complex with GPCRs
Huseman, Kristen	Yang, Danzhou	Jul-20	In training	Structural analysis of nucleolin-MycG4 interactions
Gray, Ryan	Metskas, Lauren Ann	Jul-22	In training	Polymerization of rubisco in a- carboxysomes; ultrastructure of propanediol utilization microcompartments by cryo-ET
Gabel, Clinton	Chang, Leifu	Jul-18	PhD, 2023	Structural studies of the molecular basis of branching microtubule nucleation	Postdoctoral Fellow J. Schuller Lab Synmikro Center for Synthetic Microbiology Marburg, Germany	Postdoctoral Fellow J. Schuller Lab Synmikro Center for Synthetic Microbiology Marburg, Germany
Ellegate, James	Post, Carol	Jul-22	In training	Characterization of systems containing flexible peptide substrates
Demoss, Mercedes	Yang, Danzhou	Jul-22	In training	Structure and function of the MYC promoter G- quadruplex (MycG4)
David, Emily	Stahelin, Robert	Jul-18	PhD, 2023	Budding cell entry of SARS-CoV2, ebola drug discovery, and ceramide kinase studies	Postdoctoral Fellow, Charles Chalfant lab, U. of Virginia	Postdoctoral Fellow, Charles Chalfant lab, U. of Virginia
Chapman (Imhoff), Mackenzie	Mesecar, Andrew	Jul-18	PhD, 2023	Structure and Inhibition of papain-like proteinases in coronaviridae	Postdoctoral Fellow J. Tesmer Lab Dept. Biological Sciences Purdue University	Postdoctoral Fellow J. Tesmer Lab Dept. Biological Sciences Purdue University
Bury, Gabriel S.	Pushkar, Yulia N.	Jul-18	In training	Natural and artificial mechanisms of photosynthesis
Billings, Evan	Noinaj, Nicholas	Jul-18	In training	Structure and function of the BAM complex from N. gonorrhoeae
Beechboard, Sydney	Mesecar, Andrew	Jul-22	In training	Structures of SARS- CoV-2 3CLpro clinical variants

Part II. Those Clearly Associated with the Training Grant (T32-associated slots funded by Purdue EVPRP, Graduate school, or support from PI4D/PICR)

Trainee	Faculty Member	Start Date	Terminal Degree(s) Received and Year(s)(s)	Topic of Research Project	Initial Position	Current Position	Subsequent Grant(s)/ Role/Year Awarded
Bush, Michelle	Noinaj, Nicholas	Jul-21	In training	Structure of the BAM- SurA complex in the absence of substrate and BAM- SEC super complex structure
Christoffer, Charles	Kihara, Daisuke	Jul-16	PhD, 2023	Flexible docking of protein complexes	Senior Computational Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University	Senior Computational Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University
Dubey, Shubham	Noinaj, Nicholas	Jul-20	In training	Molecular mechanism for iron transport in Neisseria using cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography
Gonazlez, Brenda	Jiang, Wen	Jul-16	PhD, 2021	Cryo-EM helical reconstruction of bacteriophage contractile tail sheath	Application Scientist Refeyn company	Postdoctoral Fellow T. Gonen Lab Dept. of Biological Chemistry UCLA	Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (2022)
Kenny, Sebastian	Das, Chittaranjan	Jul-18	PhD, 2023	Molecular mechanism of p53 ubiquitination by HPV E6 protein	Postdoctoral Fellow D. Baker lab Institute for Protein Design University of Washington	Postdoctoral Fellow D. Baker lab Institute for Protein Design University of Washington