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Ben Arentson test
Arentson, Ben

Office: N261 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-9653
E-mail: ben.arentson@gmail.com
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Donald Becker
Thesis Project: Substrate channeling in the proline catabolic enzyme proline utilization A (PutA)

 Cory Boone
Boone, Cory

Office: N154 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-7342
E-mail: boone_cory@yahoo.com
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Jiri Adamec
Thesis Project: Metabolomic and proteomic technologies in tractable yeast and cell culture models to provide a broader system analysis of the effects resulting from oxidative stress induced by environmental stressors

 Christine Booth
Booth, Christine

Office: N247 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-6808
E-mail: christine.b2@gmail.com
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Melanie Simpson

 Drew Brueggeman test
Brueggeman, Andrew

Office: N156 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-4934
E-mail: ajbrueggeman@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Donald Weeks
Thesis Project: Transcriptomic analyses of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii carbon concentration mechanism and development of TALEN-directed gene knockout and gene replacement

 Katie Carnes test
Carnes, Katie

Office: 732 Hamilton Hall
Phone: 402-472-3316
E-mail: ktcarnes@hotmail.com
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Larry Parkhurst
Thesis Project: DNA-protein interactions: Kinetics and thermodynamics

 Jennie Catlett
Catlett, Jennie

Office: N224 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-7427
E-mail: jcatlett@acm.org
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Nicole Buan
Thesis Project: Currently deciding

 Shelbi Christgen 140x210 (compressed)

Christgen, Shelbi

Office: N204.1 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-9653
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Donald Becker

 Nick Eurek
Eurek, Nicholas

Office: 215 Entomology Hall, East Campus
Phone: 402-472-6556
E-mail: neurek88@gmail.com
Degree Sought: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Ashley Hall
Thesis Project: Currently deciding

 John Ferguson test
Ferguson, John

Office: E149 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-2253
E-mail: johnpferg@hotmail.com
Degree Sought: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Ken Nickerson
Thesis Project: Characterizing extracellular quorum sensing molecules produced by algae and diatoms and alkalophilic alga (JF11) able to grow at pH values >10

 Maxim Gerashchenko
Gerashchenko, Maxim

Office: Fourth floor of the Harvard Medical School New Research Building (NRB), Boston, MA
Phone: 617-525-5140
E-mail: germax@genomics.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisors: Dr. Vadim Gladyshev and Dr. Dmitri Fomenko
Thesis Project: Regulation of selenoprotein translation

 Ryan Grove test
Grove, Ryan

Office: N150 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-7342
E-mail: ragrove@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Jiri Adamec
Thesis Project: Currently deciding

 Annastasia Harris test
Hyde, Annastasia (Aja)

Offices: N115 Beadle Center
Phones: 402-472-1122
E-mail: annastasia.harris@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisors: Dr. Melanie Simpson and Dr. Joe Barycki
Thesis Project: Structural biology and enzymology approach to characterize structure-activity relationships in the hyaluronan and glutathione turnover enzymes

 Athen Kimberlin test
Kimberlin, Athen

Office: E310 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-0277
E-mail: akimberlin1@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Cahoon
Thesis Project: Regulation of sphingolipid biosynthesis

 Anji Reddy Konda test
Konda, Anji Reddy

Office: E310 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-0277
E-mail: anjirk80@yahoo.co.in
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Cahoon
Thesis Project: Biochemistry and metabolic engineering of novel oil biosynthetic pathways in plants

 Lauren Kreimer test
Kreimer, Lauren

E-mail: lauren.kreimer@gmail.com
Degree Sought: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Greg Somerville
Thesis Project: Differentiating the metabolic and regulatory effects of the Stephylococcus aureus bi-functional protein aconitase

 Kyle Luttgeharm test
Luttgeharm, Kyle

Office: E312 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-0277
E-mail: kyle.luttgeharm@sckans.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Edgar Cahoon
Thesis Project: Currently deciding

 Caitlin McAtee test
McAtee, Caitlin

Office: N247 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-6808
E-mail: comcatee@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Melanie Simpson
Thesis Project: Determination of how excessive hyaluronan turnover drives the metastatic process in prostate cancer 

 Nicole Milkovic test
Milkovic, Nicole

Office: N116 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-1122
E-mail: milkovic.nicole@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Mark Wilson
Thesis Project: Structural and dynamic impact of Parkinsonism-associated mutations on human DJ1

 Cameron Murphy test
Murphy, Cameron

Office: N236 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-6505
E-mail: columbanus@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Paul Black
Thesis Project: Role of acyl CoA synthetase isoform 6 in fatty acid trafficking in brain

 Nathan Palmer (compressed)
Palmer, Nathan

Office: 137 Keim Hall, East Campus
Phone: 402-472-4204
E-mail: nathan.palmer@ars.usda.gov
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Gautam Sarath (USDA/ARS)
Thesis Project: Lignin biosynthesis and seasonal crown tissue transcriptome changes in Panicum virgatum

 Tom Plucinak test
Plucinak, Thomas

Office: N160 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-4934
E-mail: thomas.plucinak@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Donald Weeks
Thesis Project: Development of TALEN-directed gene knockout and gene replacement for eukaryotic cells

 Janani Prahlad test
Prahlad, Janani

Office: N116 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-3512
E-mail: jan.prahlad@gmail.com
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Mark Wilson
Thesis Project: Function of prokaryotic DJ-1 homologues and role of cysteine oxidation in DJ-1 function

 Trevor Romsdahl (140x210)
Romsdahl, Trevor

Office: N148 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-6979
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Markham
 

 Nipun Saini test
Saini, Nipun

Office: N243 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-6508
E-mail: saini_nipun86@yahoo.co.in
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Concetta DiRusso
Thesis Project: Atypical antipsychotic drugs that cause hypertriglyceridemia and inhibition of fatty acid uptake

 Nathan Smith test
Smith, Nathan

Office: N250 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-2939
E-mail: nsmith25@huskers.unl.edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Jaekwon Lee
Thesis Project: ER-associated expression control of PCA1 cadmium-transporting ATPase in yeast

 Samantha Swenson (140x210)
Swenson, Samantha

Office: N209 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-2939
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Jaekwon Lee
 

 Lu (Julia) Zhang test
Zhang, Lu (Julia)

Office: N261 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-9653
E-mail: juliazhang87@gmail.com
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Donald Becker
Thesis Project: Proline metabolic protection against oxidative stress

 Brenna Zimmer (140x210)   
Zimmer, Brenna

Office: N248 Beadle Center
Phone: 402-472-6808
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Melanie Simpson