Lab Members

Archana Dhasarathy

Principal Investigator

Dr. Dhasarathy received her Ph.D. in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Kladde at Texas A&M University, TX. She did postdoctoral work with Dr. Paul Wade at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in the Research Triangle Park, NC. Her interests are chromatin structure and transcriptional regulation, as it applies to the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT).

Atrayee Bhattacharya

Graduate Student

Atrayee earned her B.Sc. from St. Joseph's College, India, and her M.Sc. from Banaras Hindu University, India. She is interested in the role of 3D chromatin structure and function during the events that shape EMT.

Kole Hermanson

Undergraduate Student

Kole is a Biology Honors student. His project involves computational analysis of RNA-sequencing data, to determine pathways involved in Calcium signaling during EMT, and to understand the dynamics of transcription factors during EMT.

Atrayee Ray

Post Doc

Janani Kumar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Janani earned her Ph.D from the School of Medicine, Deakin University Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia. Her interests include cytokine signaling, epigenetics and alternative splicing events in EMT.

Jamani is currently a Research Associate at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Humaira Qureshi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Humaira earned her Ph.D from the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. 
Her interests include the roles of Snail and Slug transcription factors in EMT, and calcium signaling in EMT, in collaboration with Dr. Brij Singh.

Humaira is currently a faculty member at the School of Science and Engineering at Habib University in Pakistan.

Shawn Krueger

Lab Technician

Graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Shawn is worked on determining unique protein-protein interactions of master regulators of EMT. He is currently in Graduate school in the Biology Department at UND.

Liz Peterson

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Liz is an undergraduate majoring in Biology and Electrical Engineering. She worked on the role of chromatin in Lyme Disease, in a collaboration with Drs.Catherine Brissette and  John Watt.

Michelle Patregnani

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Michelle worked on her undergraduate honors thesis in the lab, to understand the role of chromatin in cocaine addiction, in collaboration with Dr. Lucia Carvelli.

She graduated with an Honors in Biology in May 2015.

Stuart Minion and Buddy Yeast                           

Lab Henchmen