Biochemistry Department Graduates
(College of Biological Sciences)
as of JUNE 2008

• Akkaya, Mahinur - Ph.D., SU91
  Advisor:  Dr. Caroline A. Breitenberger
  Dissertation Title: Purification, characterization and light regulation of pea chloroplast protein synthesis elongation factor G: identification and partial sequencing of its gene.

• Anand, Rene - Ph.D., WI89
  Advisor:  Dr. Elio Vanin
  Dissertation Title: Recombination within the human b-globin gene cluster.

• Bidinger, Jeannette - M.S., SU86
  Advisor:  Dr. Edward J. Behrman
  Dissertation Title: Non-thesis grad

• Boomershine, William - Ph.D., SP 05
  Advisor:  Dr. Mark Foster
  Dissertation:  Structure and Interactions of Archaeal RNase P proteins Mth Rpp29 and Pfu Rpp21
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Fellow in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of North Carolina, Wilmington

• Byerly, Douglas - Ph.D., WI 2002
  Advisor:  Dr. Mark Foster, Advisor
  Dissertation Title:
  Position Upon Graduation:  Attending Ohio State Medical School

• Deng, Tiliang - Ph.D., WI90
  Advisor:  Dr. Lee F. Johnson
  Dissertation Title: Mouse thymidylate synthase gene: determination of its structure and identification of its control elements.

• Druhan, Lawrence - M.S., AU93
  Advisor:  Dr. Richard Swenson
  Thesis Title: The develoment of a phenotypic screening procedure for the application of random mutagenesis to flavodoxins.

• Duerr, Barbara - M.S., SP90
  Advisor:  Dr. Caroline Breitenberger
  Thesis Title: Isolation of Euglens gracilis chloroplast EF-G genetic information.

• Eren, Mesut - Ph.D., SU90
  Advisor:   Dr. Richard Swenson
  Dissertation Title: The design, chemical synthesis, expression in E. coli and site-directed mutagenesis of an artificial gene coding for the flavodoxin from Clostridium mp.

• Fang, Yunnan - Ph.D., SU04
  Advisor:  Dr. Gary Means
  Dissertation Title:  Studies on Serum Albumin and Hemoglobin:  The Two Principal Transport Proteins in Blood
  Position Upon Graduation:  Research Assistant, Dept. of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
  
  
• Fiala, Kevin - Ph.D., SU 07
  Advisor: Dr. Zucai Suo
  Dissertation Title: A Kinetic and Biochemical Approach to Understanding the Mechanisms of Novel DNA Polymerases
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, laboratory of Dr. Sunny Xie, Harvard University
  
  
• Gerber, Kelly - M.S., SP 00
  Advisor: Dr. Maria-Alda Gilles-Gonzales
  Non-thesis Master's Awarded
  Employment: unknown
  

• Grove, Tara - M.S., SP2001
  Advisor:  Dr. Donald H. Dean.
  Thesis Title:Characterization of the Binding Properties of the Bacillus Thuringiensis CRY 11BA(delta)-endotoxin to Receptors in Three Mosquito Species.
  Position Upon Graduation:  Research Assistant, Wexner Research Institute, Human and Molecular Genetics Department, Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

• Harrison, Kelly - Ph.D., WI 2002
  Advisor:  Dr. George Marzluf
  Dissertation Title:  Characterization of SRE, A GATA factor which negatively regulates siderophore synthesis in Neurospora Crassa
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Gene Regulation Section, Frederick, Maryland.

• Helms, Larry - Ph.D., SU92
  Advisor:  Dr. Richard Swenson.
  Dissertation Title: The flavodoxins from the Desulfovibrio genus: cloning, characterization, and site-directed mutagenesis.

• Hong, Young-Soo - Ph.D., AU93
  Advisor:  Dr. David Ives
  Dissertation Title: Effects of site-directed mutagenesis on the kinetic and allosteric behavior of deoxyadenosine kinase/deoxyguanosine kinase from lactobacillus
  acidophilus R-26.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York-Buffalo

• Jovanovic, Milan - Ph.D., SP 04
  Advisor:  Dr. Venkat Gopalan
  Dissertation Title:  Structure-Function Relationships in the Protein Subunit of Bacterial Ribonuclease P
  Position Upon Graduation:  Research Assistant, Dept. of Microbiology, The Ohio State University
  Current Position:  Intellectual Property Technical Advisor, Calfee, Halter, Griswold, LLP

• Kessler, Patricia - M.S., SP89
  Advisor:  Dr. Caroline Breitenberger
  Thesis Title: Screening for organellar elongation factor genes in the higher plant, Pisum sativum.

• Ketchner, Susan - Ph.D., WI91
  Advisor:  Dr. Richard T. Sayre
  Dissertation Title: Characterization of the Expression of the Photosystem II- Oxygen Evolving Complex in C3, C3-C4 Intermediate and C4 Species of the Genus Flaveria

• Krey, Grigorios - Ph.D., SU86
  Advisor:  Dr. Richard P. Swenson
  Dissertation Title: Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and expression in E. coli of the flavodoxin gene from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough): investigation of the role of tyrosine-98 on the oxidation-reduction properties of the flavodoxin.

• Lee, Hakjoo - Ph.D., WI90
  Advisor:  Dr. George A. Marzluf
  Dissertation Title: Nitrogen regulation of the purine catabolic genes in Neurospora crassa.

• Li, Dawei - Ph.D., SP90
  Advisor:  Dr. Lee F. Johnson.
  Dissertation Title: Isolation and characterization of the mouse thymidylate synthase gene and its pseudogene.

• Li, Yue - Ph.D., SP91
  Advisor:  Dr. Lee F. Johnson.
  Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of the mouse thymidylate synthase gene regulation: identification of the regulatory elements.

• Liu, Xinyan Sylvia - Ph.D., SP 05
  Advisor:  Dr. Donald Dean
  Dissertation:  Mapping the Manduca sexta calherin-like receptor finding epitopes of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1As and Protein Engineering of Mosquitocidal Activity
  Position Upon Graduation:  Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biochemistry Department, The Ohio State University

• Lu, Hong - M.S., SU92
  Advisor:  Dr. Donald H. Dean
  Thesis Title: Site-directed mutagenesis in the putative receptor binding region of the insecticidal crystal protein-CrylAa.

• Ma, Grace - Ph.D., WI93
  Advisor:  Dr. David H. Ives
  Dissertation Title: Heterodimeric deoxyguanosine/deoxyadenosine kinase from Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26: affinity protein purification, molecular cloning, sequence of the genes, and expression in E. coli.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biochemistry Department, Northwestern University

• McElroy, Craig - Ph.D., SP 05
  Advisor:  Dr. Mark Foster
  Dissertation Title:  Dynamics and Function:  Mechanistic studies of the Gene Regulatory Proteins TRAP and Anti-TRAP
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Biochemistry Department, The Ohio State University

• Miller, Karen - M.S., WI92
  Advisor:  Dr. Gary E. Means
  Thesis Title: Adsorption of proteins on a hydrophobic polymer bead.
  Position Upon Graduation: Environmental Specialist, Ohio EPA, Columbus, Ohio

• Mo, Molly Xiaokui - Ph.D., SU 2002
  Advisor:  Dr. George Marzluf
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post Doctoral Researcher, College of Medicine and Public Health, Pulmonary/Critical Care, The Ohio State University

• Murray, Tracey - Ph.D., SU 03
  Advisor:  Dr. Richard Swenson
  Dissertation Title:
  Position Upon Graduation:  Faculty Member, Capital University

• Myszka, David - Ph.D., SU91
  Advisor:  Dr. Richard P. Swenson
  Dissertation Title: Photoaffinity labeling of warfarin binding proteins.

• Okamoto, Patricia - Ph.D., SP92
  Advisor:  Dr. George A. Marzluf
  Dissertation Title: Nitrate reductase of Neurospora crassa: characterization of its gene, nit-3, and structural studies of its heme-binding domain.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cell Biology, Worcester Foundation, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

• Pan, Hongguang - Ph.D., WI97
  Advisor:  Dr. George A. Marzluf
  Dissertation Title: Function of the positive acting NIT2 and negative acting NMR proteins in mediating nitrogen regulation in neurospora.
  Position Upon Graduation:  Research Associate, George Washington University

• Srinivason, Bharath - M.S., AU87
  Advisor:  Dr. Gary E. Means.
  Thesis Title: Non-thesis student.

• Thampi, Satheesh - M.S., WI91
  Advisor:  Dr. Robert Ross
  Thesis Title: Resolution of intrinsic protein fluorescence using multilinear analysis.

• Zhang, Haichao - Ph.D., SU90
  Advisor:  Dr. Lee F. Johnson
  Dissertation Title: Mouse thymidylate synthase: high level expression and protein engineering.