Graduate Students
Milda Stanislauskas |
Advisor: Yi Wu Education: BA/MA Hunter College About: Before joining the graduate program at UConn Health, Milda worked at a skin disease research center studying Merkel cells, which are mechanoreceptive cells responsible for sensing light touch. Her research interests include how cells sense physical cues from the external environment and convert them into chemical signals, and how these signals affect various cellular processes, and disease pathogenesis. |
| Thank you to Milda for sharing her humor and drawing skills by adding such great cartoon art around CCAM. | |
Siyu Sun |
Advisor: Michael J Guertin Education: BS-SUNY Stony Brook; MS-New York University About: Siyu Sun is a 2nd year PhD student at UConn Health. Before joining UConn Health, Siyu worked on a project focused on topoisomerases I/II’s role in regulating chromosome structure and transcription repression dosage compensation. Her current research focuses on ER-mediated transcriptional regulation through advanced sequencing techniques and bioinformatic analysis. |
Rudradeep Mukherjee |
Advisor: Michael J Guertin Education: BE Computer Science (BIT Mesra, Ranchi); MSc Neuroscience (NBRC, Gurgaon) About: Rudradeep Mukherjee worked for some years as a software engineer. During M.Sc. he studied resting state networks of individuals with autism by using a maximum entropy model on fMRI data. He is currently interested in understanding transcriptional roles of Twist family of factors. In his free time, he reads about the history of science, follows Japanese manga and jogs during the beautiful summer evenings. |
Jinhong Dong |
Advisor: Michael J Guertin Education: BA Carleton College About: After doing metagenomics research sparked an interest in bioinformatics, Jinhong is now focused on analyzing DNA- and RNA-sequencing data to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms of transcription regulation and initiation. |
Edwin Moses Appiah |
Advisor: Eran Agmon Education: BSc. Agricultural Biotechnology, Mphil. Biodata Analytics and Computational Genomics (KNUST, Ghana) About: Edwin is a first year Biomedical Science PhD student. Before joining the UConn health, Edwin worked on how the gastric microbiome influences gastric carcinogenesis focusing on bacterial diversity, co-occurrence patterns and predictive models. Currently, Edwin works on microbiome at the Agmon lab at CCAM with special focus on building multi-scale computational models for the gut microbiome. |
Postdoctoral Fellows
Amin Boroomand |
Advisor: Eran Agmon Education: B.Sc., Agricultural Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran M.Sc., Bioinformatics, University of Bologna, Italy Ph.D., Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Merced About: Amin is a postdoctoral researcher at UConn Health. Awarded a fellowship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he studies metabolic interactions in marine microbiomes through multiscale modeling to improve understanding of ocean carbon cycling. Amin earned his Ph.D. in Quantitative and Systems Biology with a focus on complexity and agent-based modeling. He is interested in science-based entrepreneurship and is a dedicated mentor promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM, striving to empower future scholars. In this picture, Amin is the one who is seated on the chair! |
