Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
(College of Medicine)
AS OF JUNE 2008 

• Ai, Xi - Ph.D., SP 04
  Advisors:  Dr. Mark Parthun and Dr. Louis Mansky
  Dissertation Title:  Biochemical Characterization of a HAT1P-containing Histone
  Acetyltransferase Complex
  Current Position:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University

• Allen, Amy - Ph.D., AU00 
  Advisor:  Dr. Tsonwin Hai
  Dissertation/Thesis Title:  Ectopic Expression of ATF3 Affects Glucose Homeostasis and Pancreatic Endocrine Cell Development
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Researcher, lab of Dr. Gordon Weir, 
  Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School

• Bai, Shoumei - Ph.D., AU 05
  Advisor:  Dr. Samson Jacob
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Role of DNA methyltransferase 3b in neuronal cell differentiation
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University

• Baysal, Kemal - Ph.D., SU93
  Advisor:  Dr. Gerald Brierley
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: The regulation and stoichiometry of the Na+/Ca2+ antiporter in isolated heart mitochondria.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medical Biochemistry Department, Ohio State University

• Black, Donald J. , Ph.D., SP01
  Advisor:  Dr. J. David Johnson  (deceased) and Dr. Ruth Altschuld
  Dissertation Title:  Modulation of the calcium binding properties of calmodulin via amino acid replacement and target interaction
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Duke University Medical School,
  Dept. of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

• Bradshaw, Patrick, Ph.D., SU01,
  Advisor:  Dr. Douglas Pfeiffer
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics at University of Missouri
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

• Butchbach, Matthew - M.S., SP00
  Advisor (M.S. only):  Dr. Pal Vaghy
  Thesis Title: Molecular Profiles of mdx Mouse Muscles:  Implications for Regeneration
  Position Upon Graduation:  continuing student in Ph.D. track in the laboratory of
  Dr. Glenn Lin, Neuroscience Dept., Ohio State University

• Chen, Jingchun - M.S., WI 01
  Advisor: Dr. Tsonwin Hai
  Thesis: A Study of the Map Kinase Pathways Involved in ATF3 Induction and Stress Response
  Position: unknown
  
  
• Chen, Ping-Chi - Ph.D., SU96
  Advisor:  Dr. Tsonwin Hai 
  
  
• Chen, Renxiang - Ph.D., SU 04
  Advisor: Dr. Louis Mansky and Dr. Mark Parthun
  Dissertation: Studies of HIV-1 Mutagenesis During Drug Therapy and the Molecular Determinants of HIV-1 Variation
  Position: unknown
  
  
• Chen, Yan - M.S., SP 07
  Advisor: Dr. Daniel Schoneberg
  

• Cobb, Nathan - Ph.D., SP 2005
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation/Thesis Title:  Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of mononuclear
  molybdenum enzymes of the DMSO reductase family
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-doctoral scholar, Case Western University

• Conrads, Thomas - Ph.D., AU99
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation/Thesis Title:  Spectroscopic and Kinetic Studies of Monunuclear Molybdenum Enzymes"
  Position Upon Graduation: Post-Doc, Pacific Northwest Labs, Richland, Washington
  Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh
  
  
• Crump, David - M.S., WI 85
  Advisor: Dr. Richardson
  Non-thesis Masters
  Position: unknown
  

• Cunningham, Kristopher S. - Ph.D., SU00
  Advisor:  Dr. Daniel R. Schoenberg
  Dissertation Title:  Molecular Interactions of the Endoribonuclease PMR-1
  Position Upon Graduation:  Attending Medical School
  Current Position:  Director, Mass Spec Center, NCI

• Dennis, Michael - Ph.D., SU91
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E. Kolattukudy 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Hydrocarbon biosynthesis: purification and characterization of aldehyde decarbonylase from Botryococcus braunii.
  Position Upon Graduation: Attending Law School, Ohio State University

• Gu, Haidong - Ph.D., SU01
  Advisor:   Dr. Daniel Schoenberg
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University
  Current Position:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago

• Guo, Wenjin - Ph.D., AU96
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E. Kolattukudy 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Studies of pectate lyases from fusarium solani f.sp.pisi as virulence factors in fungal disease.
  
  
• Harrington, Anthony - Ph.D., WI 05
  Advisor: Dr. Sung-Oak Yoon
  Disertation: Machanism and Consequence of P75 Signalling
  Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  

• Hong, Joung-Woo - Ph.D., SP 04
  Advisor:  Dr. Lai Chu Wu
  Dissertation Title:  Characterization of the Cellular Function and Gene Structure of Large Zinc Finger Protein ZAS3
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

• Hood, Brian - Ph.D., SU 03
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation Title: 'Kinetic and spectroscopic characterization of members of the sulfite oxidase family of mononuclear molybdenum enzymes.'
  Current Position:  Research Scientist in the Clinical Proteomics Facility at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. 

• Hsieh, Yng-Ju - Ph.D., AU92
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E.  Kolattukudy
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Cloning, characterization and diruption of malonyl-coa decarboxylase gene from Saccharopolyspora erythraea and heterologous expression in E. coli.

• Hu, Bo - Ph.D., SU92
  Advisor:  Dr. Rugh Altschuld
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Mechanisms of the hormonal and metabolic control of AMP
  deaminase in adult rat cardiac myocytes.

• Hustead, Diane - M.S., SU94
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Spectroscopic studies of arsenite oxidase.

• Hwang, Cheng-Shine - Ph.D., AU92
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E. Kolattukudy
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Molecular cloning and sequencing of thioesterase B cDNA and homonal induction of this thioesterase in the uropygial gland of mallard duck, and the molecular cloning of genes whose expression are triggered uniquely during appressorium formation in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides induced by its plant host signal.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University

• Jang, Mei-Huei - Ph.D., SU 99
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation/Thesis Title:  Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of Trimethylamine Dehydrogenase
  Position Upon Graduation:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  Current Position:  Staff Scientist, RenaMed Biologics, Ann Arbor, MI

• Kleykamp, David - M.S., SU86
  Advisor:  Dr. John Merola
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Non-thesis student.

• Lee, Jong-Dae - Ph.D., SP95
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E. Kolattukudy
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Studies on Extracellular Proteinases as Virulence Factors in Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis.

• Leroux, Carolyn - M.S., WI89
  Advisor:  Dr. Lloyd Horrocks
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: An investigation of the biochemical events occurring at early stages after spinal cord trauma.

• Liang, Guosheng - Ph.D., AU97
  Advisor:  Dr. Tsonwin Hai
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Functional Analysis of HATF4 and Regulation of ATF3 Expression.

• Livingston, Beth - M.S., SP94
  Advisor:  Dr. Ruth Altschuld
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Distribution and metabolism of adenine nucleotides in neonatal pig heart myocytes.
  
  
• Lu, Dan - Ph.D., SU 06
  Advisor: Dr. Tsonwin Hai
  Dissertation: ATF3, a Stress-Inducible Gene: Function and Regulation
  Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

• Mathur, Manjula - Ph.D., WI92
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E. Kolattukudy
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Molecular cloning, sequencing and characterization of a novel fatty acid synthase: mycocerosic acid synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. bovis BCG.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow

• John Mersfelder, Ph.D., SP 05
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation Title:  Mutagenetic studies of trimethylamine
  Position Upon Graduation:  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Sinclair Community
  College

• McIlroy, Brian - Ph.D., WI91
  Advisor:  Dr. J. David Johnson 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Protein kinase C phosphorylation dependent MARCKS peptide binding to calmodulin and acrylodan MARCKS peptide fluorescence.

• Mohan, Royce - Ph.D., AU92
  Advisor:  Dr. P.E. Kolattukudy
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Regulation of expression of a highly anionic peroxidase gene by cis-elements and by fungal interaction.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Murphy, Eric - Ph.D., SU89
  Advisor:  Dr. Lloyd Horrocks
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Cell culture models for neural trauma.

• Ochieng, Josiah - Ph.D., SU88
  Advisor:  Dr. Ronald Trewyn 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Transfer RNA modification and phenotypic expression in cultured cells: implications in promotion of carcinogenesis.

• Park, Sung-Jo - M.S., SP88
  Advisor:  Dr. James O. Alben 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Characterization of heme and heme moeity in native and cobalt substituted heme respiratory proteins by low temperature fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

• Peng, Jing - Ph.D., AU 04
  Advisor:  Dr. Dan Schoenberg
  Disseration Title:  Impact of the Poly(A) Limiting Element on 3' Processing Efficiency
  and Translation
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Ohio State University
  Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
  Current Position:  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fox Chase Cancer Center

• Phillips, Ronald - Ph.D., SP97
  Advisor:  Dr. Rugh Altschuld
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: The role of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in congestive heart failure.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcherer with Dr. John Solaro, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
  
• Polsinelli, Gregory - Ph.D., WI 08
  Advisor: Dr. Russ Hille

• Runge, Steve - Ph.D., SU91
  Advisor:  Dr. Dorothy Schumm.
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Characterization of an oncofetal protein (OFP) and cloning of its cDNA.

• Ryan, Matthew - M.S., SP95
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Spectroscopy and kinetic studies of the molybdenum based hydroxylation in xanthine oxidase.

• Seharaseyon, Jegatheesan - Ph.D., SU94
  Advisor:  Dr. Arthur Burghes
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Delivery and expression of gene constructs in nerve and muscle.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ohio State University

• Siravo-Sagraves, Gina - M.S., WI91
  Advisor:  Dr. Ronald Trewyn 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Synthetic oligonucleotide probes for detecting human tRNA isoacceptors differing in post-transcriptional modification.

• Snyder, Christopher - Ph.D., SP96
  Advisor:  Dr. J. David Johnson 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Effects of target protein peptides and MLCK on calcium exchange  with calmodulin and the disulfide-bond-locked mutant calmodulin’s.
  
  
• Greg Steinbaugh - Ph.D., AU 07
  Advisor: Dr. Douglas Pfeiffer
  Dissertation:Heavy Metal Ion Transport Utilizing Natural and Synthetic Ionophores
  Employment: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Surgery, College of Medicine, Ohio State University
  
  
• Stockert, Amy - Ph.D., SU 04
  Advisor:  Dr. Russ Hille
  Dissertation Title:  Spectroscopic and Kinetic Studies of Bovine Xanthine Oxidase and Rhodobactor Capsulatus Xanthine H Dehydrobenase
  Position Upon Graduation:  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Microbiology, The Ohio State University
  Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Ohio Northern University
  
  
• Tang, Changhong - M.S., SU 00
  Advisor: Dr. Daniel Schoenberg
  Thesis: Estrogen Does Not Affect Phosphorylation of PMR-1 or Binding of Proteins to Albumin mRNA
  Position: unknown

• Timerman, Anthony - Ph.D., SP89
  Advisor:  Dr. John Merola 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Biochemical and morphological response of isolated adult rat
  myocytes to abrupt glutathione depletion.

• Wang, Songtao - Ph.D., SP95
  Advisor:  Dr. J. David Johnson 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: The structural requirements and mechanisms for high affinity CA2+ binding and MG2+ binding to the C-terminal domain of cardiac troponin C.
  Position Upon Graduation: Resident, Department of Pathology, University of Maine

• Winnard, Alissa - Ph.D., SU93
  Advisor:  Dr. Arthur H.M. Burghes 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: Exception patients in Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy.
  Position Upon Graduation: Research Scientist, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University

• Wolfgang, Curt - Ph.D., SU99
  Advisor:  Dr. Tsonwin Hai 
  Dissertation/Thesis Title: A Study of the Biological Function of ATF3: Stress Inducibility,
  Target Promoters and Functional Consequences.
  Position Upon Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow for Dr. Ira Pastan, National Cancer Inst.,
  National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
  
  
• Xing, Xu - Ph.D., SU 07
  Advisor: Dr. Charles Bell
  Dissertation Title: Structural Studies of Homologous Recombination in Bacteria
  Position Upon Graduation: Marketing Database Analyst, DrawingBoard, Inc., Hagerstown, MD
  
  
• Yang, Feng - Ph.D., SP 05
  Advisor: Dr. Daniel Schoenberg
  Dissertation: Endoribonuclease-Mediated mRNA Decay Involves the Selective Targeting of PMR-1 to Polyribosome-Bound Substrate mRNA
  Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  
  
• Yin, Haishan - Ph.D., SU 06
  Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Kuret
  Dissertation: Triggers and Enhancers of Tau Aggregation: Implication for Ad Pathogenesis