WELCOME:
1) JUIN-CHAN YANG (Larson lab) received his B.S. degree from
National Chiao-Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan, and a M.S. degree in
Chemistry from National Taiwan University. After working in the
semiconductor industry for two years, he joined Dr. Prabir Dutta's lab
at Ohio State University and obtained a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry.
His research in OSU focused on solid-state inorganic materials and
chemical sensors. He is working with Hogle lab and Center for
Nanoscale Systems on developing nanohole array biosensors for
characterizing interactions of ligands with membrane-bound receptors.
2) ELIZABETH SATTELY (Walsh lab) obtained her B.S. degree in
chemistry from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Earlier this year,
she completed her Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry under the
direction of Amir Hoveyda, also at Boston College. Through a
collaboration with Richard Schrock at MIT, she focused on the
development of new methods for catalytic asymmetric olefin metathesis
in the context of alkaloid synthesis. She recently joined Chris
Walsh’s lab to pursue studies in natural product biosynthesis.
3) IGOR JURAK (Coen lab) graduated at the Faculty of Biology,
University Zagreb, Croatia in molecular medicine with particular
interest in tumor biology (Pavelic lab, Rudjer Boskovic Institute).
Afterwards, turning to microbiology in the Gall-Troselj lab, he
researched causative agents of periodontitis and other oral cavity
diseases before moving to the Vugrek lab where he focused on the
recombinant DNA technologies. He did his Ph.D. work at Rudolf Virchow
Center in Wuerzburg, Germany in the Brune Lab working on
cytomegalovirus species specificity (thesis title: The molecular
mechanism of cytomegalovirus species specificity). After completing
his Ph.D., he joined the Brune lab at the Robert Koch Institute in
Berlin to study viral antiapoptotic proteins. Currently, in Don Coen’s
Lab, he is studying the functional role of viral miRNAs for virus life
cycle and pathogenesis.