All students
Every undergraduate and graduate researcher I have mentored, newest first. Where a project contributed to a peer-reviewed paper, the citation links to the published article.
Undergraduate research mentoring
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2025
Rachel Kulp
Rochester Institute of Technology
Microbial metagenome analysis in soil crust.
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2024
Francesca Molee
Rochester Institute of Technology
Stress response in algae from retention and non-retention sites.
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2022
Daniel Pugatch
University of Massachusetts
Development of optimal conditions to produce soluble recombinant proteins from aquatic animals for functional assays.
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2021
Ahmad Alkhatin
Brown University
Identification of rotifer repeat elements in metagenomes.
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2021
Anton Tarazi
Brown University
Identification of rotifer genome components in permafrost.
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2020
Bridget Beaudoin
University of Massachusetts
Identification of rotifer genome components in metagenomes.
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2020
Matthew Dunn
University of Massachusetts
Transposon analysis in Darwinula stevensoni.
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2019
Samuel Maffa
Brown University
Function of reverse transcriptase-related (rvt) genes in metal stress response.
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2018
Bria Metzger
Brown University
Role of reverse transcriptase-related (rvt) genes in metal stress response.
Yushenova, Rodriguez et al., in preparation
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2017
Jonathan N. Dow
Brown University
Mini-Mu vector design and in vitro cloning of circular bdelloid rotifer transposition intermediates.
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2017
Brandon M. Le
Brown University
Annotation of repeat regions in the miniature parasitoid wasp Megaphragma amalphitanum.
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2017
Katherine Dunham
Brown University
Purification of reverse transcriptase-related (rvt) gene in Neurospora crassa.
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2017
Laura Swain
University of Chicago
Identifying extrachromosomal intermediates of transposition in bdelloid rotifers.
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2016
Samantha Spear
Brown University
Neurospora mutagenesis and selection of rvt-gene related pathways.
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2016
Brandon M. Le
Brown University
Genome transposon analysis benchmarking.
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2016
Vishok Srikanth
University of Chicago
Domain structure of reverse transcriptase-related proteins.
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2015
Tatsiana Mello
Wellesley College
In vitro activity of reverse transcriptase-related (rvt) genes.
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2014
Aubrey W. Kenefick
Williams College
Analysis of LTR-retrotransposons in bdelloid rotifers.
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2013
Daniel DiCorpo
Brown University
Detection of methylated DNA in bdelloid rotifers.
Graduate research mentoring
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2024 –
Andrew Alford M.Sc. thesis
Rochester Institute of Technology
DNA methylation variation and demethylation effects in rotifers.
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2024 –
Yelle Vandenboer Ph.D. thesis
Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
Transposons in ostracod evolution.
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2010 – 2012
Anupriya Dutta Ph.D. thesis
Brown University
Purification and analysis of small RNAs in bdelloid rotifers.