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Dr. Michael Mannino is a classically trained synthetic chemist, receiving his PhD in 2019 in the lab of Dr. Alexei Demchenko developing novel and improved methodologies of carbohydrate chemistry at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. From there he moved to the lab of Dr. Gerald Hart at the University of Georgia, Athens studying intracellular O-GlcNAc-directed […]

Mr. Jian Gao is a recent graduate in the Biomedical Engineering program. He defended his thesis in November of 2024. He did his PhD thesis work in the laboratory of Dr. Colin Nichols, where he sought to understand and find a treatment for Cantu Syndrome which is caused by gain-of-function mutations in KATP channel forming […]

Dr. Ben Garcia has received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Brazil for 2025-2026. Dr. Garcia will spend a short time in Brazil over the next two summers to begin new research collaborations and teach a short course. The Fulbright Program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and […]

The Grant is in collaboration with Angela Hirbe’s lab who are both Co-PIs on the DOD funded project titled Understanding and Targeting Epigenetic Vulnerabilies in NF1-MPNST

Dr. Ben Garcia has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Garcia is being honored for distinguished contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and how he has applied it to research of the epigenetic regulation of gene activity in cells. See announcement here