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People:

Mitch McVey
Associate Professor
Research interests: DNA repair, genome instability, and aging
e-mail: mitch.mcvey AT tufts.edu

Current lab members (in order of arrival):

Dan Kane
6th year graduate student
Research interests: role of error-prone DNA polymerases in double-strand break repair
e-mail: daniel.kane AT tufts.edu
Dr. Alice Miller
Lab czar and keeper of order
Research interests: role of DNA ligase 3 in end joining
e-mail: alice.witsell AT tufts.edu
Adam Thomas
5th year graduate student
Research interests: genes involved in repair of camptothecin-induced damage in Drosophila
e-mail: adam.thomas AT tufts.edu
Carrie Hui
Undergraduate research student
Research interests: mechanisms of homologous recombination
e-mail: carrie.hui AT tufts.edu
Kelly Beagan
3rd year graduate student
Research interests: functions of DNA polymerase theta
e-mail: kelly.beagan AT tufts.edu
Elyse Bolterstein
TEACRS postdoctoral fellow
Research interests: DNA repair during Drosophila development
e-mail: elyse.bolterstein AT tufts.edu
Rachel Cox
Undergraduate research student
Research interests: genetic control of DNA interstrand crosslink repair
e-mail: rachel.cox AT tufts.edu
Victoria Mak
Undergraduate research student
Research interests: Alternative end-joining repair
e-mail: victoria.mak AT tufts.edu
Varandt Khodaverdian
Graduate rotation student
Research interests: mechanisms of double-strand break repair
e-mail: varandt.khodaverdian AT tufts.edu
Rachel Rivero
Undergraduate research assistant
Keeper of the flies
e-mail: rachel.rivero AT tufts.edu
Anna Dukhovich
Undergraduate research student
Research interests: roles of DNA polymerase theta
e-mail: anna.dukhovich AT tufts.edu

Former lab members (in order of departure):

Justine Liepkalns
Research technician
2006
Currently in Ph.D. program at Emory University
Amelia Sinkin
Undergraduate lab assistant
2005-2006
Currently in veterinary school at UPenn
Adam South
Rotation student
Fall 2006
Currently doing his Ph.D. in Lewis lab
Ilana Traynis
Undergraduate research student
2006
Currently in M.D. program at Tufts Medical School

Sarah Rubin
Undergraduate research student
2006-2007
Currently in nursing school at Georgetown University
Lisa Netkowicz
Lab assistant
2006-2007
Graduated from postbac program at Tufts
Greg Mayes
Undergraduate research student
2007
Currently in a pre-med program at Virginia Commonwealth University

Endry Martinez
REU student
Summer 2007
Graduated from Merrimack College
Currently at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

Camille Petersen
Undergraduate research student
2007-2008
Currently in Ph.D. program at Stanford University

Karina Sanchez
REU student
Summer 2008
Graduated from UT-Brownsville
Currently doing clinical research

Jessie Evans
Rotation student
Fall 2008
Currently teaching high school biology

Bena Chan
Undergraduate research student 2007-2009
Currently in Ph.D. program at MIT

Brook Chernet
Rotation student
Spring 2009
Currently doing his Ph.D. thesis in Levin lab

Nicole Cardona
Undergraduate lab assistant
2007-2009
Currently working as a technician at MIT

Lisa Tran
REU student
Summer 2009
Graduated from UVA in 2010
Michael Shusterman
Undergraduate research student
2008-2010
Currently in medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lauren Watts
REU student
Summer 2010
Graduated from Holy Cross in 2011
Amanda Albin
Undergraduate research student
2009-2010
Currently a senior at Tufts
Caitlin Peterman
Undergraduate research student 2010
Currently a junior at Tufts
Jennifer Nguyen
Graduate rotation student
Fall 2010
Currently doing her Ph.D. in Freudenreich lab
Lena Cantone
Undergraduate lab assistant
2010-2011
Currently a senior at Tufts
Allen Su
Graduate rotation student
Spring 2011
Currently doing his Ph.D. in Freudenreich lab
Dr. Amy Yu
Graduated with a Ph.D. in 2011
Currently a postdoc in Samson lab at MIT
Amy Baker
Undergraduate research student
2009-2011
Currently in a Ph.D. program at Dartmouth
Alexander Garcia
REU student
Summer 2011
Currently a senior at the University of Miami
Mary Bruynell
Undergraduate lab assistant
2010-2011
Currently a senior at Tufts

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