| Gabriel received his B.S. in Microbiology from UT El Paso, El Paso, Tx his hometown in 1997. He is now enrolled in the Molecular Biology Ph.D. program and his projects involve NAE and abiotic stress susceptibility in Arabidopsis. | Gabriel Gonzalez |
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Swati Tripathy |
Swati is originally from India and received her Ph.D. in plant science from Vikram University, Uyjan, M.P. India. She also worked as a Research Associate at Texas Tech University before coming to UNT. She is now employed as a research Scientist working on NAE signaling in plant defense. | |
| Sangchul is from Seoul, Korea and received his B.S. and M.S. in 1998 and 2002, respectively, in Biochemistry from Korea University. He is now a Ph.D. student at UNT working on the enzyme characterization of rice FAAH. | Sangchul Kim |
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Aruna Kilaru |
Aruna is a postdoc in our lab working on NAE metabolism and its physiological implications in lipid signaling. She is originally from Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India and received her BS(1991) and MS(1993) in India. Her doctoral work was done at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and she graduated in 2005. Please see her personal page for more information. |
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| Agnieszka is originally from Warsaw Poland . She received her M.S. in Molecular Biology in 2001 from UNT and is currently employed as a Research Assistant III. Her projects include cottonseed oil modification and T-DNA typing of Arabidopsis mutants. | Agnieszka Stawska |
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| Neal is originally from Middletown, Ohio and received his Bachelor of Arts and Science and M.S. from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX in 1994 and 1997, respectively. At UNT he is a research assistant in the Molecular Biology Ph.D. program. He is working on the NAE signaling pathway and gene expression in germination and seedlings. | Neal Teaster |
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Purnima B. Neogi |
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| Eric, most recently from Schertz, TX is currently working on a B.S. in both biochemistry and mathematics. As a student research assistant he is helping out on the cotton oil project. | Eric Krauss |
Anuja Sriparameswaran |
M.Sc. Biochemistry (Dec. 1995) Thesis “Subcellular Localization of N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine Synthase in Cotyledons of Cotton Seedlings”; (M.D. UT Galveston—Residency in Houston) |
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| M.A. Biology (May 1996; Prob-in-lieu-thesis) Returned to Lebanon to attend medical school Sept 1996; now in graduate school at McGill University in Montreal | Sirine Kabalawi |
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Arland DeSouza |
M.Sc. Biology (May 1997) Thesis “Catabolism of N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine in seeds of Gossypium hirsutum L. and cells of Nicotiana tabacum L.” (UNT—Coordinator, Undergraduate Laboratory Instruction) | |
| Ph.D. Biochemistry (Dec. 1998) Dissertation “ Cottonseed microsomal N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine synthase: identification, purification, and biochemical characterization of a unique acyltransferase” (Postdoctoral research associate with Katherine Osteryoung, Michigan State University, East Lansing, now Assistant Research Scientist and Director, Protein Structure Laboratory, Texas A&M University) | Rosemary McAndrew |
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Shea Austin-Brown |
M.Sc. Biochemistry (Dec. 1998) Thesis "N-Acylethanolamines and plant phospholipase D" (UNT—Coordinator, Undergraduate Laboratory Instruction) |
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Ph.D. Biochemistry (August 2001) Dissertation “Cotton plastidial carbonic anhydrase: developmental regulation of gene expression, and a metabolic role in lipid synthesis” (Currently postdoctoral research associate with Stephen Gold, Psychiatry Department, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas) |
Chau V. Hoang |
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Tu T. Huynh |
Ph.D. Biochemistry (August 2001) Dissertation “Cotton palmitoyl acyl carrier protein thioesterase: Expression, characterization, and metabolic role in saturated fatty acid synthesis” (Currently postdoctoral research associate with Meg Philips, Pharmacology Department, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas) |
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| M.Sc. Biochemistry (December 2002) Thesis: “Tobacco phospholipase Db1: Molecular cloning and biochemical characterization” | Jane Hodson |
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Sylvia Wanjie |
M.Sc. Biochemistry (May 2004) Thesis: “Lipid profiles of cotton fiber cells: reconciliation of metabolic pathway predictions with DNA database information” (Currently Research Technician in Sally Ward’s Lab UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas) | |
| M.Sc. Biochemistry (December 2004) Thesis: “Molecular and biochemical characterization of phospholipase D isoforms from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) seedlings” (Currently research assistant at Biotech company in Houston) | John McHugh |
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Rhidaya Shrestha |
Ph.D. Biochemistry (August 2004) Dissertation: “N-Acylethanolamine Metabolism during Seed Germination: molecular identification of a functional N-acylethanolamine amidohydrolase” (Currently post-doc with Gregg Howe, Michigan State University DOE- Plant Research Laboratory) | |
M.Sc. Biology (Dec.1998) Thesis “Cloning of cDNA’s encoding carbonic anhydrase from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L)” |
Andrea Local |
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Camelia Maier |
Ph.D. Biology (Dec. 1997) Currently Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University, Biology Department and curator of the TWU Herbarium. | |
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Originally from Pontiac MI, Amy received her B.S. in Biochemistry from UNT and is finishing her M..S. in Biochemistry working on genetic modification of cotton lipid profiles. She will attend UT Southwestern Medical Center fall 2005 in their Ph.D. program. | Amy Rommel |
William Wiant |
Will, originally from El Paso, TX received his B.S. and Biochemistry M.S.. from UNT His project involved quantification of NAE's by isotope-dilution mass spectrometry and phenotypic effects of NAE's on seeds and seedlings. |  |
| Sherry is from Alvord, Texas and received her Associate in Arts degree in 1996 from Tarrant County Junior college and her B.S. and M.S. from Midwestern State University in 2001 and 2005, respectively. She is currently on leave from a biochemistry Ph.D. program at UNT. | Sherry Cross |
