Current Lab Members
Clint Taylor, Ph.D
Assistant Instructor
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Research Interest: Using structural biology and classical biochemical approaches, I study how interactions between protein kinases and their signaling partners facilitate pathway regulation.
Ana Martin Vega, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Research Interest: My work is mainly focused on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of the uncommon deleterious impact of ERK activation in MEK inhibitor-insensitive squamous cell lung carcinoma and SCLC tumors. A better understanding of the molecular biology of these cancers and of the implication of ERK in tumorigenesis and therapy resistance will let us come up with new therapeutic strategies to overcome the impasse in chemotherapy.
Ankita Jaykumar, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Research Interest: I am interested in understanding how the With No Lysine kinase 1 (WNK1) regulates endothelial cell migration and proliferation.
Jiung Jung, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Research Interest: I am interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the role of WNK1 in developmental and cellular processes, and specifically how crosstalk between the WNK1 and other signaling pathways affects major characteristic of cancer malignancy such as cancer invasion and metastasis.
Chonlarat (Pearl) Wichaidit, Ph.D
Research Scientist
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Research Interest: Image processing, data analysis, and bioinformatics
Magdalena Grzemska
Graduate Student
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Research Interest: I am focused on investigating the implications of WNK1 signaling in breast cancer and cell invasiveness by exploring novel protein-protein interactions of its downstream kinase OSR1. Meanwhile, I work towards better understanding of the function of WNK1 as a scaffolding protein.
Staff
Lab Alumni
Elma Zaganjor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics)
Vanderbilt University
Jihan Osborne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Pharmacology)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
David J. Robbins, Ph.D.
Professor (Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Georgetown Univeristy Medical Center
Angelique Whitehurst, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Pharmacology)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Malavika Raman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Developmental Molecular and Chemical Biology)
Tufts University
Don Arnette, Ph.D.
Medical Affairs Director, Disease Area Lead
AbbVie Inc.
Michael Kalwat, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator
Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
Sachith Gallolu, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ab Studio, Inc.
Aroon Kara, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
Kathy McGlynn
Research Associate (Whitehurst Lab)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Michael Kalwat ( - /20)
Weirui Chai (04/16-07/17)
Curtis Thorne (08/14-07/17)
Hashem Dbouk (01/13-06/16)
Andres Lorente-Rodriguez (05/12-04/16)
Marcy Guerra (08/11-06/14)
Wen-huang (Lisa) Ko (01/10-03/11)
A-Young Lee (06/09-09/12)
ElHadji Dioum (04/09-11/12)
Eric Wauson (08/07-12/13)
Staci Deaton (Heise) (07/07-09/09)
Zhui Chen (07/04-09/06)
Anthony Anselmo (04/03-08/06)
Michael Lawrence (02/02-06/11)
Wei Chen (12/00-12/03)
Lori Silvestro (09/00-08/03)s
Ewen Gallagher (01/00-01/03)
Tara Beers Gibson (10/99-12/04)
Cherry Ballard Croft (07/98-08/99)
Bridgette January (01/98-07/01)
Bing-e Xu (10/97-04/06)
Jennifer Swantek (09/95-11/99)
Lori Christerson (04/95-07/00)
Megan Robinson (12/94-09/99)
Jeff Frost (11/93-11/99)
Jessie English (07/93-07/98)
Shuichan Xu (11/92-10/97): sr principal scientist
Erzhen Zhen (10/90-09/93)
Judit Monis (09/88-06/89)
Bi-Ching Sang (10/88-10/90)
Sachitch Gallolu (-/19)
Aroon Karra (-09/18)
Elizabeth Zhang (08/14-06/15)
Min He (03/12-08/15)
Lauren Weil (04/12-10/13)
Jingsha Chen 03/12-06/13)
Kevin Cormier (11/11-0713)
Anwesha Gosh (03/11-05/15)
Andrea McReynolds (06/09-09/13)
Aileen Klein (03/09-06/15)
Samarpita Sengupta (03/08-08/12)
Szu-Wei Tu (04/07-06/13)
Elma Zaganjor (03/07-09/13)
Jihan Osborne (03/07-06/13)
Lingling Duan (08/06-10/10)
Kyle Wedin (03/05-11/09)
Chunli Shao (03/05-11/09)
Arif Jivan (03/05-07/09)
Jon Self (01/05-05/09)
Daryl Goad (01/05-09/08)
Yu-Chi Juang (06/04-10/09)
Charles Heise (09/03-01/07 - 10/07-12/09)
Mustafa Yazicioglu (06/02-08/06)
Lisa Lenertz (06/02-02/07)
Malavika Raman (06/01-12/07)
Aarati Ranganathan (06/01-12/05)
Don Arnette (06/01-02/05)
Byung-Hoon Lee (06/00-05/06)
Angelique Whitehurst (06/00-02/04)
Youngjai You (06/00-08/04)
Fred Robinson (10/99-09/02)
Xiaoshan Min (06/99-09/01)
Grey Pearson (06/98-01/03)
Mahesh Karandikar (08/97-06/00)
Zhu Chen (06/97-02/01)
Kevin Berman (06/97-06/00)
Julie Wilsbacher (06/96-02/00)
Alf Dang (06/95-03/00)
Khoo Shih (06/95-08/99)
Andrei Khokhlatchev (08/93-02/98)
Michele Hutchison (06/93-04/97)
Mangeng Cheng (08/91-03/96)
Doug Ebert (08/90-07/94)
David Robbins (08/89-04/94)
Joie C Rowles (09/87-01/92)
Teri Boulton (06/87-12/91)