Principal Investigator

Andrew Truman Ph.D.

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Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Ph.D. Biochemistry, University College London, UK

BSc (Hons), Biochemistry, University College London, UK

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Tasaduq Wani
Postdoctoral Researcher

Understanding interplay between DNA damage response and the Chaperone Code

Graduate Students

Siddhi Omkar
PhD student

Understanding the role of the chaperone code int he heat shock response

Courtney Shrader
Masters student

Regulation and role of co-chaperone PTMs in yeast and cancer cells.

Megan Mitchem
PhD student

Understanding interplay between the chaperone code and metabolism

Kehinde Ayinde
PhD student

Structural biology of Hsp70-client complexes

Undergraduate Students

Ainella Rysbayeva
Undergraduate researcher

Understanding Hsp70 phoshorylation through the Hsp70 chaperone code array

Elizabeth Abedi
Undergraduate researcher

Understanding Ydj1/DNAJA1 phosphorylation in the DNA damage response

Research Technicians

Bo Zheng
Senior Technician

The role of Hsp70 and Hsp90 on the APE2/APN2 endonuclease

The Mask of Good Results

A gift from Laura Knighton to the lab from Africa, this mask bestows good grant, paper and experimental luck to all those within a 2-bay radius.

Lab Alumni

1. Sarah Walsh (Certificate program)

2. Neha Galla (Honors Student)

3. Nitika (PhD Student): 

4. Lizbeth Saa (Honors Student): Medical School TBD

5. Laura Knighton (PhD student): Currently a Business Analyst at Lifescience Dynamics Limited, Boston, MA.

6. Jade Takakuwa (3900 student). Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Bioinformatics at UNCC

7. Jacob Blackman (3900 and 4700 Honors Student). Southern College of Optometry

8. Owen Strom (Lab Technician, 2018: Currently at Washington State Medical School. 

9. Jill Waller (Master’s student, Fall 2016-Spring 2018): PA School

10. Isaac Sluder (3900, REU and 4700 Honors, Fall 2015-Spring 2018): UNC Chapel Hill Medical School.

11. Monserrat Cueervas (3900, REU and 4700 Honors, Fall 2015-Spring 2018): Currently at  NC State Veterinary School.

12. Alexandria Szalanczy (REU student, Summer 2017): Currently a PhD candidate at Wake Forest University Graduate School.

13. Shahad Nedawi (Lab volunteer, Fall 2016). Currently, lab manager at 360 labs.