Ali Shilatifard

Investigator

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Jung-Shin Lee

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Jung-Shin was granted a Ph.D. degree at the School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University in Korea.  Her project in this laboratory is about the relationship of histone H3 methylation by COMPASS and histone H2B monoubiquitination, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.  Jung-Shin will study the molecular mechanism of “cross talk” between histone H2B monoubiquitination by Rad6/Bre1 and histone H3 methylation by COMPASS.

Yoh-hei Takahashi

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Yoh-hei obtained his Ph.D degree at Kyoto University in Japan in March 2007. Thereafter he joined the Shilatifard lab. Yoh-hei is investigating the molecular mechanism of histone methylation and transcriptional regulation via COMPASS mainly with biochemical approaches.

Shima Nakanishi

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Edwin Smith

Research Scientist

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Edwin comes from Emory University, where he studied dosage compensation in Drosophila with John Lucchesi. Presently, he is investigating the role of chromatin modifiers in the regulation of transcription in fruit flies.

PengFei Wang

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Before coming to the Stowers Institute PengFei was a Urologist in China.  He has some experience with knock out mice and transgenic mice.  Presently he is going to focus his work on the functional study of PAF complex and MLL complex based on the mouse model.

Min Wu

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Min Wu got his Ph. D. degree in Peking University in China and was a postdoc at Yale University before he joined Shilatifard Lab.  Now he is working on the histone H3K36 methyltransferase in mammalian cell, as well as the mouse models of histone demethylases.

Ben Winter

Research Technician I

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Ben graduated from Kansas State University in December of 2006 with a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Science and a Bachelor's of Science in Life Science.  He joined the Shilatifard Lab in February of 2007 and is currently learning everything there is to know about Drosophilia.

Ka Chun (Joe) Lai

Research Technician I

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Chun graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbanan, where he recevied a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering.  A few months after his graduation, he joined Dr. Shilatifard's Lab in Saint Louis, MO.  Currently, Chun's research focuses on defining the molecular mechanisms underlying leukemogenesis in S. cerevisiae. 

Laboratory Assistants

                                            Nathan Droz            Melissa Ruhlman        Tyler Marquart             Nicole Dillon

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Laura Shilati

Editorial Assistant

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Lisa Kennedy

Administrative Assistant

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