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. |
Postdoctoral Fellows
Hasan Baig |
Advisor: Pedro Mendes Education: PhD, Technical University, Denmark About: Dr. Hasan Baig is working on the development of COPASI software. |
| Meagan Cauble | Advisor: Ji Yu |
Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil |
Advisor: Pedro Mendes Education: PhD, (Mathematics), Clemson University, South Carolina, USA About: Dr. Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil is developing models of mixed-species biofilms. |
| Sailasree Rajalekshmi | Advisor: Mike Guertin |
| Prem Shresta | Advisor: Ji Yu |
