Home Diversity MOSAIC Scholars Cohort 1

The first cohort of ASBMB MOSAIC scholars

Lillian J. Brady

Vanderbilt University

Project: Sex differences in cholinergic regulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor modulation of local nucleus accumbens circuitry underlying motivation

Cassandra Hayne

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Project: Structural and functional characterization of pontocerebellar hypoplasia associated nucleases

Alfa Herrera

Northwestern University

Project: Small host GTPases: Direct targets of vibrio vulnificus MARTX toxin effectors

Junior Gonzales

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Project: Development of multimodal agents from natural spider peptides for prostate cancer via sodium-channel NaV1.7

Josefina Inés del Mármol

Rockefeller University

Project: Elucidating the structural determinants of odor specificity in insect olfactory receptors

John R. Jimah

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Project: Structural basis of dynamin-mediated membrane fission, actin bundling and interaction with binding partners

Marco Messina

University of California, Berkeley

Project: An activity-based biomolecule labeling platform for the imaging of cells and tissues under oxidative stress

Elias Picazo

Harvard University

Project: Strategic molecular activations for the selective synthesis of 2-deoxy-beta-glycosides, and for the synthesis of novel donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts

Iris Smith

Cleveland Clinic

Project: Unraveling the PTEN interactome: Modeling structural and functional dynamic network architecture for therapeutic modulation in cancer and autism

Chelsey C. Spriggs

University of Michigan

Project: Hijacking host cellular motors for the nuclear entry of polyomaviruses

Elizabeth V. Wasmuth

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Project: Biochemical, structural and molecular dissection of androgen receptor transcriptional activity

Velencia J. Witherspoon

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Project: Quantitative characterization of the extra cellular matrix components of connective tissue: Fingerprinting macromolecular components through low-field magnetic resonance