Current Ardell Lab Members
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Person |
Position |
Contact |
Years@Merced |
Office |
Research |
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David Ardell |
Assoc. Professor |
email |
2008– |
SE228 |
Gene expression mechanisms; Coevolution with genomes
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Andrea Collins-Hed |
QSB Doctoral Student |
email |
2016– |
SE1398 |
Origins of Cells and Genetic Codes |
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Fatemeh Hadi Nezhad |
QSB Doctoral Student |
email |
2017– |
SE1398 |
Algorithms to Reconstruct Evolution of Eukaryotic tRNA Gene Organization |
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Rhondene Wint |
QSB Doctoral Student (co-advised with Prof. Mike Cleary) |
email |
2017– |
SE1398 |
tRNA Expression in Drosophila and Fungi |
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Deepika Gunasekaran |
QSB Doctoral Student (co-advised with Prof. Clarissa Nobile) |
email |
2020– |
SE1398 |
Evolution of tRNA in Candida |
Ardell Lab Postdoctoral, Doctoral and Masters Alumnae/Alumni
Former Ardell Lab Graduate and Undergraduate Research Associates
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Christian Tran |
Undergraduate Researcher |
email |
2018– |
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Stochastic models for aaRS-tRNA networks |
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Alejandro Hernandez |
NIH Bridges-to-Doctorate Undergraduate Researcher from Fresno State |
email |
2018– |
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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 |
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Genome and Metagenome Classifiers (with Hark) |
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Harkanwalpreet Sodhi |
Second-Year Bioengineering Major |
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Genome and Metagenome Classifiers (with Cris) |
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Kyle Kauffman |
UC Merced Graduate in Molecular and Cellular Biology |
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Evolution of Complementarity |
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Noelle Anderson |
Quantitative and Systems Biology first-year Rotation Student |
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Iterated Learning Models |
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Peter Becich |
UC Merced/NSF Undergraduate Research Scholar in Computational Biology |
email |
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Code-Message Coevolution |
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Claudia Canales |
Fourth-Year Bioengineering Major |
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Duration Hidden Markov Models |
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Michael Frisch |
Undergraduate Researcher in Bioengineering |
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Now Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics |
Simulation of macromolecular interactions |
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Brian Stark |
Undergrad |
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Code-Message Coevolution |