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Members of the Schmidt Lab

Emily Hildebrandt
PhD, UC-Berkeley

Research Coordinator
2004-present

RESEARCH:
Yeast prions, CaaX protease topology

David Mokry
BS, Univ. of Wisconsin

BCMB Grad Student
2005-present

RESEARCH:
Trypanosomal CaaX proteases

Surya Manandhar
PhD, Kharkov St. Univ.

Post-Doctoral Fellow
2006-present

RESEARCH:
Rce1 inhibitors, IDE activators

Sayali Kukday
MS, Instit. of Science
Mumbai, India

BCMB Grad Student
2008-present

RESEARCH::
Abeta degradation

Eric DeJesus

BCMB Grad Student
2009-present

RESEARCH:
Ras signaling

Summer Aldrugh
BCMB Undergrad
2009-present

RESEARCH:
Abeta yeast reporter

Betsy Burris
BCMB Undergrad
2009-present

RESEARCH:
C. elegans IDE

Edward Lilla
BCMB Undergrad
2009-present

RESEARCH:
Rce1p topology

Nora Zeiden
BIOL Undergrad
2009-present

RESEARCH:
Degradation of Isoprenylated proteins

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Gone but Not Forgotten Former Members:

Grad Students, Post-Docs and Staff

Victoria Rogers
Research Tech III
2002-2004

Seonil (Sunny) Kim
BS, Chung-Ang Univ.

CBIO Grad Student 2004-2005

John Deaton
PhD, Texas A&M

Post-Doctoral Fellow
2005-2007

Andrea Lapham
BS, Buena Vista Univ.

Research Tech III
2002-2007

Stephen Porter
BS, Mississippi St.

BCMB Grad Student
2004-2007

Ben Alper
BA and BS, Clemson Univ.

BCMB Grad Student
2005-present

Ranjith Krishnankutty
MBBS, Med. Coll. Trivandrum
Thiruvanathapuram, India

BCMB Grad Student
2007-2009

Ryan Stuart
BS, Mercer University

BCMB Grad Student
2009

RESEARCH:
Rce1 inhibitors

Undergraduates

Daniel Mandel BCMB Undergraduate 2002-2003	Thomas Wood BCMB Undergraduate CURO Fellow 2002-04	Krzysztof Potempa Summer intern 2002	Jasleen Singh Summer intern ( Northwestern Univ) 2002	Tiffany Reed BCMB Undergraduate CURO fellow 2002
Chris Freedman BCMB Undergraduate 2003-2004	Lisa Plummer BCMB Undergraduate 2002-2004	Tiffany Gartrell BCMB Undergraduate 2004-2005	Jay McCracken BCMB Undergraduate 2004-2005	Amulya Nagarur BCMB Undergraduate Foundation Fellow 2004-2005
Helen King BCMB Undergraduate 2005	Tatyana Nienow BCMB Undergraduate CURO Summer Fellow CURO Distinction Award 2004-2006	Shivan Bhatt Undergraduate CURO AP Scholar 2005-2007	William "Billy" Jacobsen BCMB Undergraduate 2006-2007	Jonathan Phillips BCMB Undergraduate 2006-2007
Sara Pinosio University of Udine, Italy Visiting Undergraduate 2008	Sarah Breevoort BCMB Undergraduate CURO Summer Fellow 2005-2008	Amanda Castleberry CURO AP Scholar 2007-2008	Anna Junco BCMB Undergraduate 2008	Kristen Chicola BIOL Undergraduate 2007-2009
Marissa Ludley BCMB Undergraduate 2008-2009	Jarrad Rowse BCMB Undergraduate 2007-2009

Summer REU Students

Pamela Freshley and Chandra Moore Summer REU Students (via Albany St. and Clark Atlanta) 2003	Ray Chen Summer REU Student (via Univ. Conn) 2004	Phill Hardaway Summer REU Student (via Morehouse College) 2005	Regina Salvat Summer REU Student 2006 (via Cornell)	Nortorious Coleman Summer REU Student (via Clark Atlanta) 2008
Ticia Watson Summer REU Student (via Clark Atlanta) 2009

Group Photos:

		May 2009 Going Away Party
May 2009 Ben's PhD Graduation	April 2009 Pie a PI (or Isaac since dad was sick)	March 2009 SERYM - Vanderbilt
March 2009 SERYM - Vanderbilt	March 2009 Let it snow... 8+ inches!!	July 2008 GRC - GTPases
July 2008 GRC - GTPases	March 2008 SERYM - UT Knoxville	September 2007 Sandy Creek picnic
September 2007 Sandy Creek picnic	July 2007 Oh crap, she's really leaving ?!?	April 2007 CURO Symposium
May 2006 Black Rock camping trip	May 2006 Lab lunch	May 2005 Watson Mill Bridge picnic
April 2005 CURO Symposium	July 2004 ... and Chris works for the CDC!	June 2004 Walter is at a meeting
January 2004 Lab lunch	Summer 2003 obligatory lab photo	Summer 2002 obligatory lab photo

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