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2007 Graduate Students

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Department of Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry

Ashish Aggarwal

Country of Origin: India
Graduate of: Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi
Undergraduate degree: Bachelors in Pharmacy, 2001
Project name or eventual thesis title: “Vinca Alkaloids Demonstrate Differential Effects in Mouse Leukemia P388 Sensitive and Resistant Cell Lines”

E-mail address: Ashish Aggarwal

Holland Alday

Country of Origin:  USA

Graduate of:  Georgia Tech

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Biology

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Analysis of Heterogeneous Protein Complexes Using Fluorescence-Detected Sedimentation”

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Sheetal Bhan

Country of Origin: India
Graduate of: University of Delhi, B.S. in Biochemistry
Madurai Kamaraj University, M.S. in Biotechnology
Project name or eventual thesis title: “The Effect of Overexpression of H1 Variants-H10 and H1c On Global Gene Expression”

E-mail address: Sheetal Bhan

Gene Bidwell

Country of Origin:   USA

Graduate of:  University of Mississippi

Undergraduate Degree:  B.A. in Biochemistry

Project name or eventual thesis title:  Development of Elastin-Like Polypeptides For Thermally Targeted Delivery of Inhibitory Peptides and Small Molecule Drugs”

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Moonsung Choi

Country of Origin:  Republic of Korea

Graduate of:  Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea

Undergraduate Degree::  B.S.

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Valeria Cucciarelli

Country of Origin:  Argentina

Graduate of:  University Juan A. Maza

Undergraduate Degree:  Pharmacist

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in p53 Positive and Negative Breast Cancer Cells”

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Rong Fu

Country of Origin:  P. R. China

Graduate of:  Fuzhou University

Undergraduate Degree:  Food Engineering

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Structure and Function Relationship of Human Pirin”

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Eric George

Country of Origin:  USA

Graduate of:  University of Mississippi

Undergraduate Degree:  B.A. in Biochemistry/History

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Mapping the In VivoI Binding Interface of Histone H1c to the Nucleosome”

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Tingfeng Li

Country of Origin:  P. R. China

Graduate of:  Beijing Medical University

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Pharmacy

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Structural and Mechanistic Studies on α-Amino-β-Carboxymuconate-ε-Semialdehyde Decaarboxylase”

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Xianghui Li

Country of Origin:  P. R. China

Graduate of:  Jilin University

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S.

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Biosynthesis of the Tryuptophan Tryptophylquinone Cofactor of Methylamine Dehydrogenase In Vitro

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John Ma

Country of Origin:  USA

Graduate of:  University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Pharmaceutics

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Investigating the Structure-Function Relationship in Blue Copper Proteins”

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Iqbal Massodi

Country of Origin:  India

Graduate of:  Jamia Hamdard University in New Delhi

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Pharmacy

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Thermal Targeting of Elastin-Like Polypeptide to Various Cancers”

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Shama Moktan

Country of Origin:  Nepal

Graduate of:  University of Mississippi

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Biology

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Audie Thompson

Country of Origin:  USA

Graduate of:  Alcorn State University

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Biology

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Studies of the Assembly and Loss of CuB in Cytochrome c Oxidase”

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Payal Vyas

Country of Origin:  India

Graduate of:  University of Mumbai

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Microbiology and  M.S. in Biophysics

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Angela Reiken

Country of Origin:  U.S.A.

Graduate of:  Mississippi College, M.C.S. in Biology and Chemistry

University of West Alabama, B.S. in Biology and Chemistry

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “The Effects of Nuclear SMN Complex Localization on Pre-mRNA Splicing”

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Sooim Shin

Country of Origin:  Republic of Korea

Graduate of:  Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S.

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Lakshman Varanasi

Country of Origin:  India

Graduate of:  Osmania University, Hyderabad

Undergraduate Degree:  B.S. in Biochemistry

Project name or eventual thesis title:  “Structural Lipids of Cytochrome c Oxidase”