Current Students
Benjamin Wolf
PMB Graduate Student (Blankenship Lab), Danforth Plant Science Fellow, 2014-current
Education: B.S. Plant Biology, Michigan State U. (2014)
Rotations: Blankenship, Moon, & Kranz Labs
Thesis: Life in the Shadows - Understanding How Specialized Oxygenic Phototrophs Use Far-Red Light
Activities: BioEntrepreneurship Core (BEC) Secretary and Co-President
Publications:
Wolf BM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Magdaong NCM, Roth R, Goodenough U, Blankenship RE (2017) Characterization of a newly isolated freshwater Eustigmatophyte alga capable of utilizing far-red light as its sole light source. Photosynth Res 135, 177-89
Liu H, Lu Y, Wolf B, Saer R, King JD, Blankenship RE (2017) Photoactivation and relaxation studies on the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein in the presence of copper ion. Phytosynth Res 135, 143-7
Majumder EL, Wolf BM, Liu H, Berg RH, Timlin JA, Chen M, Blankenship RE (2017) Subcellular pigment distribution is altered under far-red light acclimation in cyanobacteria that contrain chlorophyll f. Photosynth Res 134, 183-92
Liewei Yan
PMB Graduate Student (Zaher Lab), 2014-current
Education: B.S. Soil Sciences, Beijing Forestry U. (2009); B.S. Crop Sciences, Michigan State U. (2009); M.S. Plant Pathology, Michigan State U. (2011)
Rotations: Dixit, Nusinow, & Zaher Labs
Thesis: The Role of Ribosome-Based Quality Control Process in Coping with Chemically Damaged mRNA
Publications:
Hays SG, Yan LL, Silver PA, Ducat DA (2017) Synthetic photosynthetic consortia define interactions leading to robustness and photoproduction. J Biol Engr 11, 4
Simms CL, Yan LL, Zaher HS (2017) Ribosome collision is critical for quality control during no-go decay. Mol Cell 68, 361-73
Dennis Zhu
PMB Graduate Student (Stallings Lab), 2016-current
Education: B.S. Biochemistry, U. Missouri-Columbia (2016)
Rotations: Brutnell, Strader, Levin, Stallings, & Goldberg Labs
Thesis: TBD