Alumni | Biological Chemistry

2017

Qingyun Dan, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

qingydan@umich.edu

Nicole Motl, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

nimotl@umich.edu

2016

Mohamed Alrayyashi, M.S.

Medical Student

Oakland University School of Medicine, Rochester, MI

malrayya@umich.edu

Bryan Dunyak, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, San Francisco, CA

dunyak@umich.edu

Benjamin Ellington, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology Research

University of Maryland | NIST, Rockville, MD

vitharr@umich.edu

Elia Wright Hefner, Ph.D.

SPIRE Postdoctoral Scholar

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

eliawrig@umich.edu

Bradley Klemm, Ph.D.

IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow, Genomic Integrity & Structural Biology Laboratory

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, NC

klemmbp@umich.edu

Michael Miller, M.S.

Associate Scientist

Caymen Chemical, Ann Arbor, MI

mgmill@umich.edu

Andy Sikkema, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Epigenetics & Stem Cell Biology Laboratory

National Institute of Environmental Health Services, (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, NC

sikkema@umich.edu

2015

David K. Chen, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, Pharmacology & Toxicology

Dartmouth College Giesel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH

Manila Hada, Ph.D., MPH

Postdoctoral Fellow

National Cancer Institute, Cancer Epidemiology, (Shady Grove) Rockville, MD

manila@umich.edu

Xu (Jackson) Han, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences (MCIBS)

Penn State University, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, University Park, PA

Michael J. Howard, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), North Carolina

mhowa@umich.edu

George R. Murphy, III, M.S.

Senior Research Laboratory Technician

Biointerfaces Institute, NCRC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jennifer N. Rauch, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California, Santa Barbara

rauchjn@umich.edu

Erin Taylor, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Texas, Austin

elmi@umich.edu

Jonathan R. Wagner, M.S.

Associate Scientist

PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC), Middleton, WI

Chase A. Weidmann, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

cweidman@umich.edu

Arthur R. Wolin, M.S.

Research Technician, Dept. of Hematology/Oncology

The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

Arthur Z. Yan, M.S.

Medical Student

Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, MI

2014

Amin Ali, M.S.

Biochemistry Lecturer

University of Khartoum, Faculty of Medicine, Sudan

Mariam Ayyash, M.S.

Medical Student

University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

Brittany M. Bowman, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

bowbritt@umich.edu

Jenna M. Hendershot, Ph.D.

Scientist, New Product Development

Cayman Chemical, Ann Arbor, MI

hendeje@umich.edu

Rahaman (Remu) Navaz Ganji, M.S.

M.D./Ph.D. Student

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Curtis R. Powell, Ph.D.

Law Student; Law Clerk, Wolf Greenfield

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

crpowel@umich.edu

Ashish Rao, M.S.

Ph.D. Student

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Amber M. Smith, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of California, San Francisco

amberms@umich.edu

Mark R. Taylor, Ph.D.

Rehabilitation Associate & Assistant to the Vice President of Programs

Eisenhower Institute, Ann Arbor, MI

trotsky@umich.edu

Cody Vild, Ph.D.

Director of Protein Science

Apeel Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA

cvild@umich.edu

Noah A. Wolfson, Ph.D.

Research and Development Scientist

Ophthotech Corporation, Princeton, NJ

noahw@umich.edu

Allison Zimmerman, M.S.

Medical Student

University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

2013

Stewart Siyan Cao, Ph.D./M.D.

Resident Physician

UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

Sean P. Ferris, Ph.D./M.D.

Pathology Resident (AP/NP)

University of California, San Francisco, CA

spferris@umich.edu

Spotlight

Vps13 and Cdc31/centrin: Puzzling partners in membrane traffic

Vps13 (Vacuolar Protein Sorting 13) proteins, conserved in all eukaryotes, are high molecular weight polypeptides (>3000 aa) that function in vesicular trafficking and fusion, spore membrane expansion and fusion, autophagy and phagocytosis and at organelle membrane contact sites. Each of four widely-expressed human homologs, VPS13A-D, is the locus of a distinct autosomal recessive neurodegenerative or neurodevelopment disease. A collaborative study from the Fuller and Skiniotis labs, recently published in the Journal of Cell Biology (http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2017/01/31/jcb.201606078) and noted in a spotlight mini-review (http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2017/01/24/jcb.201612026), reveals that functional yeast Vps13 protein exists as a complex with the small Ca2+ binding protein Cdc31/centrin and folds into an unusual, unitary handle-loop structure. The protein contains conserved domains that possess binding sites for phosphatidic acid, PI3P and PI4,5P2. These lipid binding characteristics may explain the ability of Vps13 to interact with a wide array of organelle membranes and to act as an effector of set of seemingly unrelated intermembrane transactions.

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Vps13 and Cdc31/centrin: Puzzling partners in membrane traffic