Our lab investigates the molecular mechanisms by which cellular stress response networks reinstate homeostasis or promote cell death. By understanding how these networks are wired in healthy cells we can discern how they become re-wired during disease.
Members
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researchers
Fritzi is interested on the molecular mechanisms by which cellular stress responses become rogue cytoprotectors in cancer cells.
Carlos is interested on defining the features that render an RNA molecule harmful and the cellular mechanisms that detect and respond to these harmful RNAs.
Francesca is interested in understanding how stress signals can be transmitted between cells, specifically on cell non-autonomous UPR mechanisms.
Graduate Students
Soham is interested in the molecular mechanisms by which cells detect harmful RNAs.
Michael is interested in the post-transcriptional determinants of stress responses, particularly those which influence the translation of select mRNAs.
Nerea is interested in the mechanisms by which cells sense harmful RNAs and react to them.
Alumni
Suha Abduselam
Undergraduate Reserach Assistant 2018-2019
Noah Carr
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2019-2020
2020 Robert L. Sinsheimer Award
2020 Senior Honors Student
Kelly DeWeese
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2017
Graduate student in the Dornsife PhD program in Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California
Ricky Dorantes
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2017
Vivian Hoang
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2019
Lauren Hocker
Undergraduate Reserach Assistant 2018-2019
Ezra Kosviner
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2017-2018.
2017 Gorman Scholar
Shakuntala Mitra
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2017-2018
Ramsey Rayes
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2017
Diego Reyes
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2019
2019 MARC U*STAR Scholar.
Megan Riley
Undergraduate Reserach Assistant 2018-2019
2019 Robert L. Sinsheimer Award
2019 Senior Honors Student
TJ Sears
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2019-2020
2020 Senior Honors Student
Alexander Shin
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2017
Sabrina C. Solley
2018-2020 M.A. Student. Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Thesis: "Roles of the Unfolded Protein Response in the Mammalian Cell Cycle"
Graduate student in in the PhD program in Molecular Biology at Princeton University
Anastasiya Stasyuk
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2018
Katherine Yale
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2017
Neda Ziaei Kajbaf
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2018
2018 Gorman Scholar