| Person | Position | Contact | Years@Merced | Office | Research | |
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David Ardell | Assoc. Professor | 2008– | SE228 | Gene expression mechanisms; Coevolution with genomes | |
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Andrea Collins-Hed | QSB Doctoral Candidate | 2016– | SE1398 | Origins of Cells and Genetic Codes | |
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Fatemeh Hadi Nezhad | QSB Doctoral Candidate | 2017– | SE1398 | Algorithms to Reconstruct Evolution of Eukaryotic tRNA Gene Organization | |
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Rhondene Wint | QSB Doctoral Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Mike Cleary) |
2017– | SE1398 | tRNA Expression in Drosophila and Fungi | |
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Deepika Gunasekaran | QSB Doctoral Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Clarissa Nobile) |
2020– | SE1398 | Evolution of tRNA in Candida | |
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Oscar Torres Gutierrez | QSB Doctoral Student (co-advised with Prof. Susan Ge) NIH G-RISE I-BioSTeP Fellow |
2021– | SE1398 | Cilium Proteomics in the Developing Mouse Brain | |
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Ahmaree Sanders | Bioengineering Undergraduate | 2021– | SE1398 | Biology and Evolution of Long Non-Coding RNAs |
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Dr. Travis Lawrence, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2013–2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher at ORNL | Sequence Bioinformatics; Phloclassifiers; Plant Systematics | |
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Dr. Julie Phillips, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2008–2013 | Professor of Biology at Cumberland University | Molecular Evolution of tRNA in Drosophila and Yeast; Molecular Dynamics of tRNA | |
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Dr. Katherine Harris Amrine, Ph.D. | QSB Doctoral Graduate | 2008–2013 | Data Scientist at Facebook | Structure and evolution of tRNA-protein interactions | |
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Dr. Wes Swingley, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Associate Alum | Now Professor at NIU | Origin of chloroplasts; Cyanobacterial tRNAs; Phylogeny with tRNA identity elements. | ||
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Ingemar Ohlsson | Masters Project Student (Molecular Biotechnology/Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden) | Now Doctoral Student with Wes Swingley | Orthogonal tRNAs in model organisms | ||
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Jennifer Liberto | QSB Masters Student |  |
Dr. Kristoffer Illergård | Masters Graduate from Uppsala University Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics | Now Co-Lead of Reveal | Evolution of Protein Structure |
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Dr. Eva Freyhult | Graduate from Uppsala University Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics | Now BILS (Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences) Expert | Information Theory and tRNA Class-Informative Features |
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Christian Tran | Undergraduate Researcher | 2018– | Stochastic models for aaRS-tRNA networks | ||
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Alejandro Hernandez | NIH Bridges-to-Doctorate Undergraduate Researcher from Fresno State | 2018– | tRNA gene organization in Nematodes | ||
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Cristhian Gutierrez Huerta | Third-Year Applied Mathematics and Molecular and Cellular Biology Double Major, JGI Summer Research Intern | Genome and Metagenome Classifiers (with Hark) | |||
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Harkanwalpreet Sodhi | Second-Year Bioengineering Major | Genome and Metagenome Classifiers (with Cris) | |||
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Kyle Kauffman | UC Merced Graduate in Molecular and Cellular Biology | Evolution of Complementarity | |||
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Noelle Anderson | Quantitative and Systems Biology first-year Rotation Student | Iterated Learning Models | |||
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Peter Becich | UC Merced/NSF Undergraduate Research Scholar in Computational Biology | Code-Message Coevolution | |||
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Claudia Canales | Fourth-Year Bioengineering Major | Duration Hidden Markov Models | |||
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Michael Frisch | Undergraduate Researcher in Bioengineering | Now Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics | Simulation of macromolecular interactions | ||
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Brian Stark | Undergrad | Code-Message Coevolution |