Posts classified under: CMP Program Alumni

Research Interests

Regulation of copper homeostasis, structure and function of copper homeostatic proteins.

Publications

Padilla-Benavides T, McCann CJ, Argüello JM. The mechanism of Cu+ transport ATPases: interaction with CU+ chaperones and the role of transient metal-binding sites.

Undergraduate Institution

Bachelor’s of Technology, Amity University

MS, Johns Hopkins University

Awards and Honors

• 2021 Best Poster Prize, JCB – JEM Symposium on Neurodegeneration, “Neurodegenerative Diseases: – Emerging Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities”
• 2015 ‘Best use of the Mana Health API’ for team efforts in Medhacks organized by Johns Hopkins University
• 2014  ‘Best in Leadership Qualities’ at Amity University
• 201-2014 Merit Scholarship for academic excellence, Amity University

Research Interests

I study the role of PARP-1 activation in Alzheimer’s disease and Tauopathy.

Publications

Google Scholar

Awards and Honors

• Princeton University 2015 Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular Biology and Quantitative & Computational Biology (awarded by the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics)
• Rowan University College of Science and Math 2016 Dean’s Outstanding Senior Award in Biochemistry
• Rowan University Bantivoglio Honors Program Research Assistantship Recipient for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
• Rowan University Class of 2016 College of Science and Math Commencement Profile: “Research Agenda”

Research Interests

In general, while in the CMP program I hope to increase science’s understanding of how animal cells, tissues, and/or organ systems function in their intrinsic states on a fundamental level by elucidating biochemical mechanisms that help maintain homeostasis.

Publications

Sam PN, Avery E, Claypool SM. Proteolytic Control of Lipid Metabolism. ACS Chem Biol. 2019 Nov 15;14(11):2406-2423. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00695.

Calzada E, Avery E, Sam PN, Modak A, Wang C, McCaffery JM, Han X, Alder NN, Claypool SM. Phosphatidylethanolamine made in the inner mitochondrial membrane is essential for yeast cytochrome bc₁ complex function. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 29;10(1):1432. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09425-1.

Bendjilali N, MacLeon S, Kalra G, Willis SD, Hossian AK, Avery E, Wojtowicz O, Hickman MJ. Time-Course Analysis of Gene Expression During the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hypoxic Response. G3 (Bethesda). 2017 Jan 5;7(1):221-231.