Where did they go?

Graduate Students:

Linda B. Couto (Ph.D., 1985). Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of E. C. Friedberg, Stanford University Medical School; Present:  Staff scientist, Avigen, Inc.

Dana Zbehlik Lasko (Ph.D., 1986). Postdoctoral Position:  Laboratory of Tomas Lindahl.  Present:  Director, Product Development and Bioinformatics, BioAxone Therapeutic, Inc.

Kimberly S. Ellison (Ph.D., 1989). Postdoctoral position:  University of Alberta, Edmunton, Canada.

Lisa J. Naser Bradley (Ph.D., 1991). Staff Scientist: ENSR Engineering, Inc.

Ishrat S. Chaudhuri (Ph.D., 1989). Staff Scientist: ENSR Engineering, Inc.

Susan B. Malaikal Verghis (Ph.D., 1992) Subsequent position: Instructor of Biology, MIT.

Brian A. Donahue (Ph.D., 1991). Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of P. Hanawalt, Stanford University; Senior Scientist, Cell GeneSystems, Inc.

Kara D. Best Alschuler (Ph.D., 1994). Staff Scientist, Alcion Corp.; independent consultant.

Daniel Treiber (Ph.D., 1993). Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of J. Williamson, Scripps Research Institute.  Director of Molecular Biology and Technology Development, Ambit Biosciences, San Diego, CA. 

Kevin Yarema (Ph.D., 1994). Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of C. Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley; Present:  Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, the Johns Hopkins University.

Marshall Morningstar (Ph.D., 1994). Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of C. Michejda, NCI-Frederick; Takabe Pharmaceuticals; Present:  Staff Scienist, Astra-Zenica Pharmaceuticals.

Elisabeth Bailey (Ph.D., 1995). Mechanism of aflatoxin induced mutagenesis. Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of B. Demple, Harvard University; Scientist, Menzie-Cura Associates

Esequiel Barrera (S.M., 1995).  Asst. Director of EHS, Biological and Chemical Safety Officer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Zenghuan Chen (Ph.D., 1995). Novel drug design. Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of R. Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute; Present:  Research scientist, Merck Research Laboratories.

Jill Mello (Ph.D., 1996). Postdoctoral position, Genevieve Almouzni and Claude Helene, Institute Curie, Paris; Technology Specialist, patent law office of Lahive & Cockfield.

Xiao-Quan Zhai (Ph.D., 1996 ). Roles of HMG box proteins as modulators of genotoxicity. Subsequent position, medical residency, University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Elizabeth Trimmer (Ph.D., 1997. Functional evaluation of SRY as a DNA damage recognition protein. Postdoctoral position: Laboratory of R. Matthews, Univ. of Michigan; Associate Professor of Chemistry (with tenure), Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

William Kobertz (Ph.D., 1997). Synthesis of adduct-containing oligonucleotides. Postdoctoral position, laboratory of C. Miller, Brandeis University, Present:  Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worchester, MA.

Deborah Kreutzer (Ph.D., 1998). Visiting faculty position, Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Brookline, MA.; Instructor in Chemistry, Wheaton College

David Wang (Ph.D., 1998). Postdoctoral position, Laboratory of Donald Ganem, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.; Present:  Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University, St. Louis

Sophie Currier (S.M., 1999).  MD-PhD student, Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.

Annie Lee (S.M., 2000).  University of Pittsburgh Medical School.

Zoran Zdraveski (Ph.D., 2001).  Technology Specialist, Patent law office of Wolf Greenfield.

Maryann Smela (Ph.D., 2002).  Present:  Staff scientist, Momenta Pharaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Neena Kadaba (S.M., 2003).  Doctoral Candidate, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.

Postdoctoral Personnel:

Calvert L. Green (1981-1983). Subsequent position: Staff Scientist, AMGEN, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Edward L. Loechler (1982-1984). Subsequent position: Professor of Molecular Biology, Boston University.

Patricia L. Rouet (1982-1983). Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Scientist, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France.

Ashis K. Basu (1984-1990). Subsequent position: Professor of Chemistry, University of Connecticut.

Eugenia Dogliotti (1984-1987). Subsequent position: Director of Research, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy.

Manjit Dosanjh (1986-1989). Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Wood (1987-1991). Subsequent position: Senior scientist, NAXCOR, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

Colette Hodes (1987-1990). Subsequent position: Sciences International, Inc.; US Environmental Protection Agency.

Wendy Heiger-Bernays (1987-1990). Subsequent positions: Menzie, Cura and Associates; Assistant Professor, Boston University.

Ascuncion Esteve (1988-1991). Subsequent position: Staff scientist, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

Dipti Mathur (1990-1994). Subsequent position: McLaren-Hart Environmental Engineering Corp.

Roberta Pastorelli (1990-1991). Subsequent position: Senior scientist, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy.

Elizabeth Miller (1991-1992). Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.

Marjorie Solomon (1992-1996). Subsequent position: Symbiotech/Hybridon; Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

Stacia Rink (1994-1995). Subsequent positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of L. Loeb, University of Washington; Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle

Mitra Tadayoni-Rebek.  Subsequent positions: Scripps Research Institute; University of California, San Diego, CA.

Lisa Paige (1994-1996). Subsequent position: Novalon Pharmaceuticals.

Sharon Malia (1996-1999). Subsequent position: University of Connecticut.

Linda Shimizu (1997-1998). Subsequent position: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of South Carolina.

Sang-Ge Lee (1997-1998). Subsequent position:  Korean Institute of Science and Technology.

Hyun-Ju Park (1997-2000). Subsequent position: Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Sungkyunkwan University.

Beatriz Zayas-Rivera (2000-2002).  Subsequent position:  Assistant Professor of Toxicology, Universidad Metropolitana, Puerto Rico.

Michelle Hamm (1999-2001).  Subsequent position:  Associate Professor of Chemistry (with tenure), University of Richmond, Virginia.

Kaushik Mitra (1999-2003).  Subsequent position:  Staff Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.

Paul Henderson (1999-2002).  Subsequent position:  Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Berkeley, CA.

Denise Rordriquez (2001-2003).  Subsequent position:   Instructor in Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin.  Austin, TX.