| 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 |




