Erica Avery

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.

 

Nathan Zaidman

Graduate Program

Ph.D. in Physiology, University of Minnesota

Undergraduate Program

BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Research Interests

Epithelial Physiology, Adhesion GPCRs

Publications

Murali Yanda

Awards and Honors

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – Senior Research Fellow (2005-2009), India

Foreign travel grant for young scientists – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIO, India, 2008

Research Interests

Renal physiology, Understanding the defects in ADPKD & CFTR regulation in Cystic Fibrosis. Diabetes and natural products

Publications

Bibliography

Publications

Monish Makena

Awards and Honors

AACR Breast Cancer Research Fellowship (2020)

Outstanding Graduate Student award (2017)

The Heather Robison Memorial Scholarship for Cancer Research, from The Community Foundation of West Texas (2016-17)

Student Government Association President’s Excellence Award (2014-2015)

Research Interests

Evaluating the role calcium pumps in breast cancer.

Publications

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