Team

Our Brave LeaderLULU CAMBRONNE, PH.D.

Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular Biosciences
College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
 

Hon B.Sc.                            University of Toronto

Ph.D.                                     Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Training         Vollum Institute

Prof. Cambronne received a Hon.B.Sc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. mentored by Wade Harper in substrate recognition by ubiquitin ligases, as well as  postdoctoral training under Richard Goodman in microRNA target identification and NAD+ biology. Dr. Cambronne has been honored both at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels with individual Kirschstein National Service Research Awards, Albert J Ryan and Samuel Lunenfeld Fellowships, the Hilcrest Committee Pilot Award, and was named the 2013 OHSU New Inventor of the Year for her development and commercialization of the RISC-trap/miR-trap assay to empirically identify targets for specific microRNAs in cells. She is a 2017 recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and a 2020 Pew Scholar.

JaredJared M. Eller, M.Sc.

Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry

 

B.Sc., Clemson University Genetics

Home town: Lexington, South Carolina
 

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Shivansh Goyal, M.Tech

Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry

B.Tech & M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Dual Degree, Biological Engineering

Home town: Meerut, India

Crystal

Crystal Wilson, B.Sc.

 Research Engineering/Scientist Associate II

B. Sc., Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Marine Biology

                                                  

Home town: Galveston, Texas 

Rebecca

Rebecca Liu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University of Texas at Austin

Management, Pre-Med

Home town: Sugar Land, Texas

JessieMu-Jie Lu, M.Sc.

Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Cell and Molecular Biology

B.Sc., National Chung-Cheng University, Dept. of Life Science 

M.Sc., National Yang Ming University Institute of Genome Sciences

Home town: Taichung City, Taiwan

Hsin-Ru HeadshotHsin-Ru Chan, M.Sc

Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
B.Sc., National Yang-Ming University, Department of Life Sciences
M.Sc., National Taiwan University, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Hometown: New Taipei City, Taiwan

Lorren

Lorren Cantu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University of Texas at Austin

Chemistry, Pre-Med

Home town: Loredo, Texas

ALUMNI

 

Rotation Students

When they were here

Where they are now

Jule Goike

2018 ILS Graduate Program

Kamyab Javanmardi

2018 Finklestein Lab
Amanda Bohanon

2019

 

Austin Kindall

2020 DiGiovanni Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistants

When they were here

Where they are now

Zubia Akhtar

2018-2020 Master in Health Administration - Johns Hopkins

Mary Yu

2019-2020 Baylor College of Medicine

Ashley Gilliam

2020-2021

Masters in Biostatistics - UT Austin

Alec Weigel

Summer 2021

 

Nhat Tran

2020-2021

Research Assistant - Houston Methodist

Brandon Thai

2020-2021

 

Madeline McGuire

2021-2022  

Gayathree Gopi

2021-2022

 

Nesha Rubin

Summer 2022

 

Research Students

When they were here

Where they are now

Ricardo Noyola Lozano

2018

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Valli Annamalai

2019

PhD Program UTSW - Maddipati Lab

Paul Oliphint

2018-2020 UT Austin - Light Microscopy Specialist

Ciara Fields

2020-2021  

Jessica Taylor

2021-2022 LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicene

Mason Galliver

2021-2022 UT Austin - Ellington Lab

Matt Petershack

2021-2022  

 

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