|
Name |
Email address |
Mentor |
Research Focus |
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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. |
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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. |
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Li, Lu |
luli1@ufl.edu |
Dr. Mingyi Xie |
Function analysis of endogenous human Dicer in microRNA biogenesis |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |