FALL 2009:

Dr. Ganiraju Manyam, Thesis: "In silico study of the expression patterns associated with tumor development"

Shanna Bolden, M.S. Project: “Gut microbiota, inflammatory cytokines and gut hormones as confounding factors in the progression of the obesity"

SPRING 2009:

Elizabeth Nohelty, M.S. Thesis: “C6ORF173 as an oncogene crucial for the progression of the breast carcinoma"

Lance Batchelor, M.S. Project: “A possibility of theraputic siRNA delivery inside DNA baskets"

FALL 2008:

Dr. Aybike Birerdinc Thesis: “KCNRG as tumor suppressor gene for CLL and MM'

SUMMER 2008:

Dr. Manpreet Kaur Randhawa Thesis: “Ectopic synthesis of melanin in adipose from morbidly obese subjects”

SPRING 2008:

Dr. James Michael Estep Thesis: "A role of the adipose in the liver fibrosis development"

FALL 2007:

Dr. Mohammed Hussein Jarrar Thesis: “A role of proinflammatory cytokines produced by excessive adipose in the development of the Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis”

SPRING 2006:

Djanira Murchison, M.S. Project: “Genotypic and phenotypic descriptions of RPMI-8226, HL-60 and LnCaP cell lines"

SPRING 2005:

Steven King, M.S. Project: “Real-time PCR as confirmation of microarray analysys in studies of differential gene expression in adipose tissue and ovarian carcinomas"

David (Nick) Shahan, M.S. Project: “The physiological effects of transporting proteins and their putative link to obesity"

Our lab is actively collaborating with the Functional Genomics Group at Russian Center of Medical Genetics (Director: Prof. E.K. Ginter).

• Dr. Mikler Skoblov (Group Leader)
• Anna Guskova (Research Scientist)

Students graduated frOm the lab and former associates:

• Catherine Nguyenngo, Undergraduate student
• Ricchesh Guragain, Undergraduate student
• Shobha Gowder, Research Assistant, now in ATCC
• Dr. Tariq Alsheddi (graduated from PhD program in Bioinformatics)
• Babu Pusulury (MS student)
• Lesya Geraymovitch (Undergraduate, now graduated from VCU MedSchool)
• Francisco Otaizo (BS student, now in ATCC)
• Ivan Panov (Undergraduate)
• Irene Fanous (Undergraduate)
• Fauzia Tasleima Jones (Undergraduate)
• Stephanie Schmidt (now in the Veterinary School)
• Ben Ranard
• Darshan Desai
• Reem Al-Hussain, Undergraduate student
• Surya Sundar, ASSIP student
• Sophie Ham, Undergraduate student volunteer, NYU

PhD students graduated from the Functional Genomics lab after completion of the collaborative projects with Ancha’s lab in George Mason University:

• Dr. Andre Marakhonov, Topic: “Anti-sense regulation of human transcription on the genomic scale”. Now: Post-doc Researcher in Dr. Skoblov’s lab in Russian Center for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia.
• Dr. Dmitry Ivanov, Topic: “RFP2 and other TSG candidates located in 13q14 often deleted in human cancers”. Now: Post-doc Researcher in Dr. Shestopalov’s lab in" Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL, USA
• Dr. Andrey Lobashev, Topic: In silico screening for tumor-specific expressed sequences in human genome. Now: AndyVortex, official fan-club page of Arida Vortex
• Dr. Natalya Makeeva, Topic: “Comparative analysis of the 13q14.3 region often deleted in CLL and other human malignancies”. Now: Post-doc Researcher in Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
• Dr. Anna Pestova, Topic: “Comparative analysis of the pannexin encoding genes in human and rodent genomes”. Now: ?
• Dr. Skoblov and Dr. Tiazhelova have also graduated from the same lab. They are currently working in the Russian Center for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia.

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