Lab Members
Current Lab Members
![tulin](/research/labs/tulin/images/alexei.jpg)
Professor
- Dr. Tulin received his Ph.D. in Epigenetics from Moscow State University. He was an associate professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center which is a part of of the Temple University System. The long-term goal of Dr. Tulin's research is to explore epigenetics pathways to understand how cells can undergo rapid, local and reversible chromatin reprogramming, thus fine-tuning the induction of local gene activity. His key discovery has been that Poly(ADP-ribose)Polymerase 1 (PARP1) controls chromatin decondensation at large number of loci including hormone-dependent developmental, heat shock responsive, and immunity genes. Understanding how PARP1 acts within normal, undamaged chromatin advances our knowledge of developmental gene regulation and facilitates the development of new anti-cancer drugs for clinical applications and of methods to experimentally re-program gene expression.
![Danping Guo](/research/labs/tulin/images/danping.jpg)
Research Specialist
Specialties: Effects of PARP-1 and PARG dysregulation during the onset of prostate, kidney, and
breast cancers.
![Atreyi Ghatak](/research/labs/tulin/images/atreyi.jpg)
Research Specialist
Specialties: Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation pathway in various types of cancer in vitro and in vivo; effect
of overexpression of poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) in cancer cells in vitro
and in vivo.
![Guillaume](/research/labs/tulin/images/guillaume.jpg)
Guillaume Bordet
Postdoctoral Associate
Specialties: Epigenetics in normal development, chromatin regulation, role of Poly(ADP-ribose)
polymerase (PARP) and poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase in transcription regulation,
Drosophila model organisms, protein-chromatin interaction, transcriptomic analysis.
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Iaroslava Karpova
Postdoctoral Associate
Specialties: Epigenetic regulation of the early embryonic development, morphogenesis and cell differentiation,
the role of protein poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in chromatin remodeling and gene activation,
PARG and PARPs functioning in mammals.
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Ali Divan
Postdoctoral Associate
Specialties: developing new cancer therapies by using high throughput screening techniques to assess
the molecular and phenotypic effects of small molecules on different types of human
cancers.
![Sayem](/research/labs/tulin/images/sayem-bhuiyan250x250.jpg)
Sayem Bhuiyan
Graduate Student
Specialties: Involvement of dual localized proteins in communication between mitochondria and nucleus,
interaction of dual localized CG14850 with nuclear and mitochondrial genome in Drosophila,
Chromatin IP sequencing, protein-protein interaction.
![Gbolahan Bamgbose](/research/labs/tulin/images/gbolahan-bamgbose.jpg)
Gbolahan Bamgbose
Graduate Student
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Shri Patel
Former Lab Members
![Yingbiao Ji](/research/labs/tulin/images/yingbio.jpg)
Yingbiao Ji
Postdoctoral Associate, 2006-2017
- yingbji@vet.upenn.edu
- 701.777.3000
- 2784 Airport Dr Stop 9051 Grand
Forks, ND 58202-9051
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Colin James Thomas
Scientific Technician I, 2011-2013
- Colin.Thomas@jefferson.edu
- 701.777.3000
- 2784 Airport Dr Stop 9051 Grand
Forks, ND 58202-9051
![Ernest Boamah](/research/labs/tulin/images/ernest.jpg)
Ernest Boamah
Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH), 2009-2016
![Niraj Lodhi](/research/labs/tulin/images/niraj.jpg)
Niraj Lodhi
Postdoctoral Associate, 2009-2015
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Aaron Dan Pinnola
Scientific Technician I, 2008-2010
![Cho Wu](/research/labs/tulin/images/chao.jpg)
Chao Wu
Scientific Technician I, 2016-2017
![Kirill Kirsanov](/research/labs/tulin/images/kirsanov.jpg)
Kirill Kirsanov
Visiting Scientist, 2010-2011
![Elena Kotova](/research/labs/tulin/images/elena.jpg)
Elena Kotova
Technical Specialist, 2008-2014
![Mikael Garabedian](/research/labs/tulin/images/mikeal.jpg)
Mikael Garabedian
Scientific Technician I, 2010-2012
![Natalia Naumova](/research/labs/tulin/images/natalia.jpg)
Natalia M Naumova
Postdoctoral Associate, 2004-2006
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Haily Datz
Student Assistant, 2017-2018
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Ammini K Menon
Scientific Technician I, 2004-2005
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- Sarah Johnson
Research Specialist
Specialties: Specific genes and pathways regulated by each of PARP-1’s binding domains and how
inhibiting PARP-1 via each of these domains will affect downstream cellular functions.
Student Assistants
- Meera Shah, Germantown academy, 2005-2007
- Jordan Konell, Philadelphia Central High School, 2008-2009
- Nikita Tulin, Cedarbrook High School, 2013-2015
- Michelle Currie, Rowan University, 2016-2017
- Jonathan Harbin, Rowan University, 2016
- Michelle Ampofo, Cedarbrook High School, 2016-2017
- Victor Gromoff, UND, 2017
- Breanna McLain, UND, 2017
- Cody Boyle, UND, 2018
- Brett MacLeod, UND, 2018