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Students in my lab are typically interested in stress responses, oxygen deprivation, states of dormancy, developmental genetics and molecular cell biology. 

Graduate Students:

Pictured Above: Vinita, Alex

• Vinita Prabhu(Ph.D.. Student)
  • Anoxia-induced cell cycle arrest, spindle checkpoint function in embryos exposed to anoxia.
  • Winner of Texas Education Award (2006) Good Job Vinita!
  • Hajeri et al BMC Cell Biology Publication

• Alex Mendenhall(Ph.D. Student):
  • Genetic mechanisms to survive long-term anoxia and high-temperature anoxia, daf-2 pathway.
  • Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA) Officer
  • Mendenhall et al "Genetics" Publication

• Bobby LaRue (Ph.D Student ):
  • Genetic mechanisms involved with long-term anoxia survival.
  • Embryonic Anoxia Survival

• Brent Little (Ph.D Student):
  • Development influenced by oxygen stress (hypoxia), nematode molecular phylogeny, globin-like gene products.

• Neil Stewart:
• • Genetic mechanisms to survive anoxia, cell cycle regulation.
  • Supported by NIH Biomedical Research Supplement Grant
  • 1 of 10 UNT Undergraduate students selected as OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEE!!

Undergraduate Students with Research Projects:

• Michelle LeBlanc (BS Student):
  • Vulva Development and cell cycle regulatory genes.
  • McNair Scholar (Good Job!)

TAMS (High School) Students with Research Projects:

• Jack Wang (TAMS):
• • Gene expression, protein localization studies in animals exposed to oxygen deprivation.

Former Students:

Jesus Trejo- medical student at Texas Tech

Jemma Alarcorn- Student at Johns Hopkins (Former Siemens Regional Scholar)

Desh Mohan- Student at MIT (2005 Siemens National Finalist!!)

Jeremy Holman (LSU Graduate Student)

Tammy Chan (Graduate Student, Baylor)

Nicole Parker (Graduate student, Mt. Sinai NY)

Last Modified: 05 December 2002