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

Emilie Korchak, Ph.D. Student 
korchak[at]uchc.edu

Emilie works on understanding the mechanism and developing potential treatments for the Hao-Fountain syndrome caused by mutations of the de-ubiquitinating enzyme USP7.

Gianluca Arianna, M.D./Ph.D. Student 
arianna[at]uchc.edu

Gianluca works on interactions of Translesion Synthesis DNA polymerases.

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

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

 

Sam Mahdi, Ph.D. Student 
mahdi[at]uchc.edu

Sam works on dynamics and interactions of gamma clamp loader in E. coli.

Gabriela Soriano, Undergraduate Student 
gabriela.soriano[at]uconn.edu

Gabriela's honors thesis focuses on USP7 enzyme malfunction in rare neurodevelopmental disease.

 

Jonathan Romine, Undergraduate Student 
jonathan.romine[at]uconn.edu

Jack's honors thesis focuses on the structure and function of human DNA Polymerase iota.

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.

Staff

Irina Semenova, Ph.D.

Research Associate

isemenova[at]uconn.edu

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Nancy Jaiswal, Ph.D.

Yulia Pustovalova, Ph.D. 

Mariana Quezado, Ph.D.

Former Students

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)