Top from left: Joy Pang, Dr. Anjali Mascarenhas, Dr. Vrajesh Karkhanis, Dr. Hussain
Nawaz, Dr. Susan A. Martinis,
Dr. Jennifer Hsu, Dr. Michal Boniecki, Ruella Rouf
Bottom from left: Michael
Vu, Rachel Hellman
Michal Tadeusz Boniecki, Ph.D.
University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland - M.S. Biotechnology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Ph.D. Biochemistry
Research Interest: Group I Intron Splicing, RNA-Protein Interactions
mboniec2@life.uiuc.edu
Rachel Hellmann
Ph.D. Student
University of Arizona, USA - B.S. Microbiology
University of Illinois, USA - M.S. Biochemistry
Research Interest: Development of LeuRS-tRNA
Leu Orthogonal Pair
rhellman@uiuc.edu
Li Li
Ph.D. Student
Fudan University, China - B.S. Biological Science
lili4@uiuc.edu
Joy Pang
Ph.D. Student
University of California San Diego, USA - B.S. Microbiology
pang2@uiuc.edu
Jaya Sarkar
Ph.D. Student
St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, India - B.S. Chemistry
University of Kalyani, India - M.S. Biochemistry
jsarkar2@uiuc.edu
Former Laboratory Members:
Yuxin Zhai, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas, Houston, TX
Research Interest: mRNA degradation
Yuxin.Zhai@uth.tmc.edu
Aswini Kumar Betha, Ph.D.
Commercialization and IP Analyst, Office of Technology Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
abetha@uiuc.edu
Amy Williams, Ph.D.
Visigen Biotechnologies, Houston, TX
awilliams@visigenbio.com
Mir Hussain Nawaz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA
hussain@scripps.edu
Vrajesh Karkhanis, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Worcester, MA
Vrajesh.Karkhanis@umassmed.edu
Michael Vu, Ph.D.
mvu2@life.uiuc.edu
Anjali Mascarenhas, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
amascare@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Kiranmai Poruri, Ph.D.
kporuri@uh.edu
Jennifer Hsu, Ph.D.
jlhsu3@uiuc.edu
