People

Principal Investigators

Irina Bezsonova, Ph.D.
bezsonova[at]uchc.edu
860-679 2769

Dmitry Korzhnev, Ph.D.

Dmitry Korzhnev, Ph.D.
korzhniev[at]uchc.edu
860-679-2849

Current Students

Daniel Fairchild, Ph.D.  Student 
dfairchild[at]uchc.edu

Daniel studies human promyelocytic leukemia protein PML and its role in anti-viral stress response.

Dane Geddes-Buehre, Ph.D. Student

geddesbuehre[at]uchc.edu

Dane studies inter-molecular interactions between scaffolding components of the DNA damage tolerance response that occurs during Translesion DNA Synthesis.

Nuala Peterman, Ph.D.  Student 
peterman[at]uchc.edu

Nuala studies the effect of pathogenic mutations on structure and dynamics of USP7 enzyme implicated in cancer and Hao-Fountain syndrome.

Rebekah Sheih, Ph.D. Student

rsheih[at]uchc.edu

Rebekah studies promyelocytic leukemia protein PML and its role in cancer.

Staff

Irina Semenova, Ph.D.

Research Associate

isemenova[at]uconn.edu

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Emilie Korchak, Ph.D.

Nancy Jaiswal, Ph.D.

Yulia Pustovalova, Ph.D. 

Mariana Quezado, Ph.D.

Former Students

Gianluca Arianna, MD/Ph.D.  2026 (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)

Emilie Korchak, Ph.D.  2025

Sam Mahdi, Ph.D.  2025 (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)

Kerry Silva McPherson, Ph.D.  2022 (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)

Socheata Lim, Ph.D.  2022 (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)

Thomas Bregnard, Ph.D.  2022

Affrin Ahmed, M.S. 2021

Gabrielle Valles, Ph.D. 2021

Alessandro Rizzo, Ph.D. 2019 (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)

Alexandra Pozhidaeva, Ph.D. 2016

Luciana Elena de Souza Fraga Machado, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro visiting Ph.D. student (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)

Esmael Alyami, Quinnipiac University M.Sc. student (Dr. Korzhnev's lab)