Lab Members

Current Undergraduate Students:

Shayaan Rasheed (2021-present)

  • Accomplishments: OSU Marion Summer Research Assistantship (2021), Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • Project: DLC START domain and DNA repair protein PRMT5
  • Major: Biology (pre-health)

 

Michaeala Writesel (2021-present)

  • Accomplishments: Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program awardee (2022), Charles River Research Scholarship (2023)
  • Project: L,D-transpeptidases in E. cloacae
  • Major: Biology (pre-health)

Ali Latif (2022-present)

  • Project: DNA repair proteins
  • Major: Biochemistry

Carson Artrip (2022-present)

  • Project: DNA repair proteins
  • Major: Biology

 


Past Undergraduate Students:

Lauren Frank (2020-2023)

  • Accomplishments: Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellow (2021-2022), Wm. K. Davis Honors Scholarship (2021), Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program awardee (2021)
  • Project: DNA repair proteins (RAD52 and KAT5)
  • Thesis Title: Determining how a chromatin remodeling protein modulates RDA52 function

 

Zane Nelson (2021-2023)

  • Accomplishments: OSU Marion Summer Research Assistantship (2022)
  • Project: DNA repair proteins (HIRA)
  • Thesis Title: Understanding protein-protein interactions in chromosome remodeling with Hip1: the yeast analog of HIRA

Zach Shaffer (2019-2022)

  • Accomplishments: OSU Marion Chemistry Award (2020), Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program awardee (2020)
  • Project: L,d-transpeptidases
  • Thesis Title: Characterization of L,D-transpeptidase YnhG in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
  • Current position: Graduate Student in the Ohio State Biochemistry PhD Program

 

Blaise Koehler (2020-2022)

  • Accomplishments: Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program awardee (2021), Andy Vick and Charles River Labs Research Scholarship awardee (2021)
  • Project: L,d-transpeptidases
  • Thesis Title: The purification and activity characterization of an L,D-transpeptidase found in Enterobacter cloacae and the comparison of three protein-protein docking web servers
  • Current position: Pharmacy Student in the Ohio State Pharmacy School

Alex Bosher (2021)

  • Accomplishments: OSU Marion Chemistry Award (2021)
  • Current position: Graduate student at Illinois College of Optometry