Chien:Lab Members

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• Group photo - At Boston Bacterial Meeting - Summer 2011

Principal Investigator

• Peter Chien, Ph.D.

Current Lab Members

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Nousheen Hamid Bhat, Ph.D. is developing new methodologies for discovery of novel ClpXP substrates.

Graduate students

• Joanne Lau (Graduate Student, Micro Program) is currently identifying regions of ClpXP regulators critical for their function.
• Keith Rood (Masters Student, BMB) is using structural/biochemical tools to discover how regulators of ClpXP interact with their targets.
• Robert Vass (Masters Student, MCB) is discovering how ClpXP processes proteins during cell-cycle.
• Jing Liu (Graduate Student, MCB) is studying how factors important for DNA replication are degradaed.

Undergraduate students

• Claudine Mapa (class of 2012, BMB major) is working on understanding how protein degradation couples developmental decisions and environmental cues.
• Amber Cantin (class of 2011, BMB/Micro major) is uncovering the molecular mechanisms of regulated degradation by ClpXP.
• Patrick Stoddard(class of 2012, BMB major) is understanding cells how cells respond to and produce environmental cues.
• Martin Susskind (class of 2012, BMB major) is defining the minimal components needed for regulated degradation of ClpXP substrates.

Previous Lab Members

• Nathan Colon, undergraduate (Spring 2010)/technican (Summer 2010), graduated 2010, BMB.
• Laura I Francis, Ph.D. (postdoc 2010-2011) is now an instructor with the Biology Department here at UMass.