Who We Are

Dr. Jeffrey Wilusz Professor
Dr. Carol Wilusz Assistant Professor
Dr. Hend Ibrahim Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Libin Zhang Post-Doctoral Fellow
John Anderson Research Associate
Nicole Garneau MIP Graduate Student
Kevin Sokoloski MIP Graduate Student
Jerome Lee CMB Graduate Student
Fumihiko Sagawa CMB Graduate Student
Lesley Jones Lab Coordinator
Jason Ramer Student Hourly

Lab Alumni

Angela Morrison: Former CMB graduate student, 9/2007
Thesis title "The Role of a Unique Polyadenylation Element and Novel RNA-binding Proteins in the Post-Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression"

Preston Neff: Former Undergraduate Student Hourly, 5/2007
Currently a CMB graduate student at Colorado State University

Karen Moraes: Former Research Scientist, 7/2006
Currently teaching at Federal University of Pampas, Brazil

Visu Palaniswamy: Former Research Scientist, 3/2006
Currently a Research Scientist in David Wong's lab at UCLA School of Dentistry in Los Angeles, CA

Mateusz Opyrchal: Former Graduate Student, 6/2005
Thesis title "Sindbis Virus 3' UTR Inhibits mRNA Decay in Mosquito cell extracts"
Currently attending medical school at UMDNJ-Newark

Megan Hensley: Former Undergraduate Student Hourly, 5/2005
Currently a lab technician at Bonfils Blood Center

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy: Former Graduate Student, 1/2005
Thesis title "Identification of a novel AU-rich element-specific RNA-Binding Domain in an Exosome Subunit"
Currently a Research Specialist in Ed Morrisey's Lab at the University of Pennsylvania

Naomi Bergman: Former Graduate Student, 11/2004
Thesis title "The Role of the Cap and a Novel 5' UTR Sequence Element in Regulating mRNA decay"
Currently a Post-Doc in Robert Schneider's Lab at NYU School of Medicine

Devi Mukherjee: Former Graduate Student, 11/2003
Thesis title "Exosome-Mediated Turnover of RNAs containing A+U-Rich Elements"

Min Gao: Former Graduate Student, 4/2001
Thesis title "Mechanisms and Factors Involved in Regulated mRNA Turnover in Mammalian Cells"
Currently a Post-Doc in the Michael Karin Lab at UC San Diego

Lance Ford: Former Graduate Student, 8/1998
Thesis title "Regulated mRNA Deadenylation and Degradation in a novel in vitro system derived from Mammalian Cells"
Currently a Research Associate at Ambion

Fan Chen: Former Graduate Student, 8/1997
Thesis title "Characterization of the Core and Auxiliary Downstream Elements of Mammalian Polyadenylation Signals"
Currently a resident at UMDNJ-Newark

Zuwei Qian: Former Graduate Student, 6/1994
Thesis title "DSEF-1 and GRSF-1: G-Rich RNA Element Binding Proteins"
Currently working for Affymetrix

Liz Bates: Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently training to be an MD at theUniversity of Birmingham School of Medicine, UK

George Arhin: Former Graduate Student,
Thesis title "The Role of Auxiliary Factors in Efficient Processing of Mammalian Polyadenylation Signals"
Currently a Post-Doc in the Elisabetta Ullu Lab at Yale

Paramjeet Bagga: Former Postdoctoral Fellow,
Currently Associate Professor of Biology and Convener of Bioinformatics at Ramapo College

Michael Chou: Former Graduate Student,
Currently employed by Merck