Devarenne Lab

Plant and Algal Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University

Shruthi Garla

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(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.

    Alyssa Dubrow

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    (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.

      Jiasen Cheng

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      (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.

        Sophie Hill

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        (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 HillSophie 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.