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| Brian K . Kay,
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| bkay@uic.edu |
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| ....Brian
is currently Professor and Head of the Department
of Biological Sciences at UIC. He received
his undergraduate and graduate training
at the University of Chicago and Yale University,
respectively, and then did post-doctoral
training at NIH. Prior to arriving at UIC
in 2007, he was an Assistant and Associate
Professor at UNC-CH, Professor at University
of Wisconsin-Madison, and Staff Scientist
at Argonne National Laboratory. His hobbies
are running, crossword puzzles, desktop
publishing, digital photography, and pestering
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| Sujatha P. Koduvayur, Ph.D, Visiting Assistant Research Professor |
| skoduvay@uic.edu |
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.....Sujatha got her graduate training in Dr. Sarah Woodsonʼs lab at Johns Hopkins
University studying folding of self-splicing RNAs in vivo. After obtaining her Ph.D in
Molecular and Cell Biology from University of Maryland at College Park, she studied the
role of microRNAs in Drosophila development at Northwestern University. Before joining
the Kay lab in 2010, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Donald
Chambers, where she studied the effects of stress on the immune response. Apart from
science, she likes biking along the lakefront trail in lovely Chicago summer and trekking
with her sisterʼs Collies.
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| Renhua
Huang, Ph.D. Student |
| renhuahuang@yahoo.com |
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.....Renhua
studied biochemistry
and molecular genetics
during his undergraduate
years in Guangxi
University, China.
Then he went to
Loyola University
Chicago to study
developmental neurobiology
as a M.S. student.
He is interested
in how molecules
interact and how
principles of physics
and chemistry can
be applied to this
interaction to elucidate
the complexity of
cellular signaling
networks. Currently
he is working to
build molecular
biosensors that
monitor the activation
of protein kinases
in living cells.
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| Michael
Kierny, Ph.D. Student |
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mkiern2@uic.edu |
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.....Mike
graduated from Iowa
State University
in 2006 with a B.S.
in Biology and came
to UIC in the fall
of 2007 to start
a PhD program in
the Laboratory for
Molecular Biology.
As an undergraduate
he conducted research
in the lab of Dr.
Marit Nilsen-Hamilton
where he worked
to characterize
a Bovine acute phase
protein known as Uterocalin.
He also was an employee
of the Department
of Energy
Ames Research Laboratory
where he worked
on the sub-cloning
of malachite green
DNA Aptamers. After
graduation, he stayed
in Ames and worked
for the laboratory-affiliated
biotech company,
where he set-up
assays to detect
Uterocalin in Bovine
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| Malgorzata (Gosia) Kokoszka,
Ph.D. student |
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Malgorzata (Gosia) Kokoszka, (formerly Zytkowiak), completed her M.S. in Biomedical Physics at Gdansk University, Poland. Her thesis project focused on the phenomena of red blood cells aggregation in human blood using dielectric spectroscopy methods and computer data analysis. Post graduation, she worked at Medical University of Gdansk in the Department of Physics and Biophysics. Before joining the MCDB program at UIC, she volunteered as a lab research assistant in Dr. Rick Sumner Lab at Rush University Medical Center, where she has been involved in a project studying joint replacement in a rat model. Gosia joined the lab in February of 2009. She is passionate about biological sciences especially topics related to cancer biology. Besides science, she enjoys playing with her daughter, running, biking, and traveling.
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| Kritika Pershad,
Ph.D. student |
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Kritika
got her Masters in Biochemistry from Osmania
University, India. She worked for six
months in Dr. Usha Rani's lab at Indian
Institute of Chemical technology, on "Plant
allelochemicals as botanical pesticides".
After her Masters Kritika worked for a
year as a research associate in the chemistry
division at Hindustan Lever Research center.
Her research focused on sunscreen stabilization
in formulations. She joined the Molecular,
Cellular and Developmental Biology program
in fall 2006.
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| Karolina Wypisniak, Visiting Research Student |
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.....Karolina is a graduate student from the Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany. She is spending two semesters of her master’s program in Dr. Brian Kay’s lab learning phage-display technology. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology from the University of Hamburg,
Germany. During that time she worked at the cosmetic company Beiersdorf AG where she also conducted her bachelor thesis research. If you cannot find her in the lab she is probably exploring Chicago and the rest of the United States.
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