Postdoctoral Associates

 

  Name Email address Mentor Research Focus
Manish Chaubey  

Chaubey, Manish

  

manish.chaubey@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Joanna Long

  

Reverse micelles/surfactant micelles as a platform for the development of magic angle spinning (MAS) DNP and high resolution MAS techniques.
Chongyang Huang  

Huang, Chongyang

  

huang.c@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Joanna Long

  

Developing dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (dDNP) techniques to broaden the application dDNP as a tool for measuring metabolic flux in vivo.
Lu Li  

Li, Lu

  

luli1@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Mingyi Xie

  

Function analysis of endogenous human Dicer in microRNA biogenesis
 Mengwei Liang  

Liang, Mengwei

  

mingweiliang@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Jianrong Lu

  

Delineating the epigenetic and metabolic pathways that regulate tumor progression and therapeutic resistance. Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in carcinomas. Identifying and characterizing regulators of altered metabolism in cancer.
Rohit Mahar  

Mahar, Rohit

  

rmahar@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Matthew Merritt

 Measuring metabolic flux study in the living systems using the advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopic techiniques. Using 2H and 1H NMR to measure de novo lipogenesis (DNL) of fatty acids in the liver, applying standard 1H NMR metabolomics methods to study overall metabolic homeostasis in these models.
   

Penzes, Judit

  

judit.penzes@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna

  

Structural and functional studies on proteins of dependoparvoviruses (family Parvoviridae); host-virus interactions, structure and cellular trafficking of reptilian parvoviruses.
Faith Scott  

Scott, Faith

  

faithscott@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Joanna Long

  

Probe development for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP)- enhanced magic angle spinning NMR.  Optimization of DNP enhancement via stable electron radical development and new DNP methods in order to study biomolecular structures.​
   

Sheng, Peike

  

peike.sheng@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Mingyi Xie

  

Explore the mechanisms of alternative miRNA biogenesis pathways and optimize shRNA construct for m7G-capped pre-miRNAs.
   

Zhou, Mingqi

  

mqzhou@ufl.edu

  

Dr. Michael Kladde

  

Determining the molecular basis of epigenetic changes in DNA methylation and chromatin structure in response to low-dose irradiation in Arabidopsis and Brassica species.