Plant and Algal Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University
(summer 2019)
Shruthi is a high school student at College Station High School and joined the lab for the summer of 2019. She will be working with Ivette on B. braunii hydrocarbon analysis. Specifically, Shruthi will be analyzing how mutations in the LOS enzyme from the L race of B. braunii affect its ability to produce hydrocarbons.
(Summer 2017)
Alyssa is a summer intern for the TAMU Energy Institute Summer Research Program. In the Fall of 2017 she will be a Junior majoring in Biochemistry and Genetics at Texas A&M. Alyssa is working on isolating and characterizing the lycopene cyclase cDNA from the B. race of B. braunii. Alyssa is currently (as of 03.28.2018) finishing her junior year studying biochemistry at Texas A&M.
(August 2016-September 2017)
Dr. Cheng is from Wuhan, China where he is an Associate Professor in the College of Plant Science and Technology at Huazhong Agricultural University.
Dr. Cheng spent a year in the Devarenne lab on a sabbatical visit from August 2016 to September 2017. He studied substrates of Adi3 that control programmed cell death through phosphorylation events in the nucleus.
After his time in the Devarenne lab Jiasen moved back to Wuhan to continue his position as professor at Huazhong Agricultural University.
(Summer 2016)
Sophie joined the lab in the summer of 2016 as an NSF REM (Research Experience and Mentoring) student to carry out research on the KCS enzymes from the A race of B. braunii responsible for hydrocarbon biosynthesis.
Sophie is a native of Newton, MA and came to us from the University of Michigan. Currently (as of 10.04.2019) Sophie is a second year graduate student in the lab of Miriam Meisler in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan.
(summer 2015)
Laura joined the lab in the summer of 2015 as an NSF REM (Research Experience and Mentoring) student to carry out research on the enzyme that produces polysaccharides in the B race of B. braunii.
Laura came to us from Carthage College in Kenosha, WI and graduated in May 2016.
Laura is currently (as of 03.28.2018) a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M in the lab of Tadhg Begley.