Name Role in the lab Where are they now?
Amber D. Austin

Undergraduate researcher studying PP2A short linear motifs. Joined lab summer 2023.

Medical Student, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Dr. Karl Biggs

Research focuses on neuroimmune mechanisms in neurodegenerative disease, extracellular vesicles, and PP2A regulation of tau phosphorylation.

Senior Scientist, Neuroscience Drug Discovery at GSK
Dr. Brooke Brauer

Identified PP2B substrates and characterized breast cancer subtypes using PPPome profiling.

Senior Research Scientist, AstraZeneca
Dr. David (Youdinghuan) Chen

Focused on triple-negative breast cancer using proteomics and genomics to identify BRCA-like tumors.

Graduated
Lauren Cressey DHMC
Nicole Jenkins

Studied phosphorylation signaling in triple-negative breast cancer using quantitative proteomics.

Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Fellow
Kate (Schlosser) Lizotte

Developed in vivo tagging and purification approaches and studied macromolecular complexes via proteomics.

Senior Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb
Dr. Scott Lyons

Developed chemical proteomics approaches to profile endogenous PPPs and study catalytic subunit methylation.

Scientist, UNC Proteomics Core
Dr. Natasha Mariano

BS in Chemistry (2014). Former lab manager at Stanford. PhD candidate researching phosphoprotein phosphatases in DNA damage response and triple-negative breast cancer.

Graduated
Dr. Brennan C. McEwan

Research focuses on PP2A-B55 targeting specificity, mitotic exit, PPP6C, and PP2A-activating compounds.

Postdoc, St. Jude's Childrens Hospital
Dr. Isha Nasa

Completed her Ph.D. in Protein Biochemistry in 2016. Research focuses on regulation of phospho-protein phosphatases during the cell cycle using mass spectrometry-based proteomics.

Health Canada
Dr. Hieu T. Nguyen

BS in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology (2018). Research focuses on PP2A and PP1 substrate binding and dephosphorylation mechanisms.

Postdoc, Pfizer
Adam Petrone

Identified Cdk1 substrates and studied mitotic progression using phosphoproteomics.

Senior Scientist, Translational Science & Diagnostics (TSDx), Bicycle Therapeutics
Jason Rodriguez

Undergraduate MD-PhD Summer Fellow working in proteomics.

Johns Hopkins University PREP Program
Dr. Scott Rusin

Developed novel proteomics approaches to study phosphoprotein phosphatase function.

Senior Scientist II, Proteomics at J&J Innovative Medicine
Jack Sears

Managed lab operations and researched Protein Phosphatase 6 in melanoma.

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Dr. Kali A. Smolen

Joined lab via MD-PhD pathway. Research focuses on PP2A enzyme-substrate relationships and tumor suppressor signaling.

Medical Student, Dartmouth Medical School
Brittany Toffey

Undergraduate researcher studying novel CDK substrates.

Internal medicine physician in Ridgecrest