Former Lab Members

AGUILAR, P.
Postdoctoral Fellow 2001-2007
Research Eisosomes and Membrane Fusion during Yeast Mating
Current Position Group Leader, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
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ALTMAN, R.
Graduate Student 1997-2000
Research Characterization of SRP RNA

BARZ, W.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1994-1996
Research Regulation of the SRP receptor function in yeast
Current Position Attorney, European Patent Office, Munich, Germany

BERNALES, S.
Graduate Student 2001-2007
Research Autophagy during the Unfolded Protein Response in Yeast
Current Position Investigator, Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida, Santiago, Chile

BERNSTEIN, H.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1987-1992
Research Signal sequence recognition
Current Position Senior Investigator, Genetics & Biochemistry, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health.
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BRICKNER, J.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1999-2005
Research Mechanism of activation of Ire1p
Current Position Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
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BROWN, J.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1992-1996
Research SRP and its role in protein targeting in yeast
Current Position Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Newcastle, UK
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CHAPMAN, R.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1995-1997
Research Regulation of the unfolded protein response
Current Position Director, Life Sciences Research, Mohr-Davidow Ventures

COX, J.
Graduate Student 1991-1996
Research The unfolded protein response pathway in yeast
Current Position Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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FREYMANN, D.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1989-1997
Research Structure of prokaryotic homologs of the signal sequence recognition protein SRP54
Current Position Associate Professor, Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry Dept., Northwestern University
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GARCIA, P.
Graduate Student 1984-1988
Research Protein translocation in yeast and mammalian cells
Current Position Research Director, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

GONZALEZ, T. (gonzalez.taniaATgene.com)
Graduate Student 1997-2002
Research Unconventional splicing of Hac1 mRNA
Current Position Scientist, Genentech Inc.

GREEN, N.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1986-1990
Research Membrane protein integration in yeast
Current Position Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology Dept., Vanderbilt University
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HALAMA, Isabella
Student 1996-2005
Research Interaction of ribosomes with the translocon and SRP in yeast

HANN, B.
Graduate Student 1988-1992
Research Yeast SRP
Current Position Research Scientist, UCSF/Mt.Zion Cancer Center

HANSEN, W.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1984-1989
Research Post-translational protein translocation in yeast
Current Position Research Biochemist, San Francisco General Hospital

HEIMAN, M.
Graduate Student 1998-2002
Research Fusion, fission & distribution of ER networks
Current Position Postdoc, Rockefeller University

HOBEN, P.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1984-1986
Research Cloning of SRP subunits

HU, T.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1997-2000
Research Function of the beta subunit of SR in yeast

JAGLO, Kirsten
Postdoctoral Fellow 2000-2005
Research Role of RIM4p in meiosis
Current Position AAAS Diplomacy Fellow, U.S. State Dept., Office of Global Climate

KEENAN, R.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1998-1999
Research Structure of the prokaryotic homologue of SRP54
Current Position Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
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LAUFFER, L.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1984-1987
Research Mammalian SRP receptor
Current Position Vaccine Development, Chiron Corporation

LEBER, J.
Graduate Student 1997-2004
Research The regulation and role of the HAC1 intron
Current Position Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

MATLACK, K (kmatlackATwi.mit.edu)
Graduate Student 1984-1994
Research The environment of the nascent chain during steady state translocation
Current Position Staff Scientist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

MILLER, J.
MSTP Student 1987-1993
Research Role of GTP binding proteins in protein translocation into the ER

MOSKAUG, J.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1992-1994
Research Protein translocation apparatus
Current Position Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oslo, Norway
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MUTKA, S
Graduate Student 1993-2000
ResearchAdaptive response to the loss of the SRP translocation pathway
Current Position Scientist, Kosan Biosciences, Hayward CA

NG, D.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1991-1997
Research Protein translocation across the ER membrane in yeast
Current Position Senior Principal Investigator, Cell Stress & Homeostasis Group, Temasek Life Science Laboratory, Singapore.
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NIWA, M.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1994-2002
Research Regulation of the Unfolded Protein Resposne
Current Position Assistant Professor, Section on Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego
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NUNNARI, J.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1989-1995
Research The pathway for sorting & maturation of mitrochondrial intermembrane space proteins
Current Position Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology Section, University of California, Davis
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OGG, S.
Graduate Student 1989-1994. Postdoctoral Fellow 1994-1997
Research The SRP receptor in yeast

PATIL, C.
Graduate Student 1996-2004
Research Functional homeostasis of ER
Current Position Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

PELUSO, P.
Graduate Student 1992-2001
Research Interactions between SRP and the ribosome
Current Position Scientist, Pacific Biosciences

PESCE, G.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1998-2003
Research Regulation of mitochondrial abundance
Current Position Scientist, Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA
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PORITZ, M.
Graduate Student 1987-1991
Research Yeast and bacterial SRP homologs
Current Position Arcaris, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah

POWERS, T.
Postgraduate Fellow 1992-1998
Research The role of SRP receptor in protein targeting to the ER membrane
Current Position Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology Section, University of California, Davis
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RÜESEGGER, U.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1999-2001
Research Mechanism and regulation of translational attenuation mediated by the HAC1 mRNA intron
Current Position Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Switzerland

RUTENBER, E.
Senior Associate 1997-2004
Research Crystallography of AIDS, cancer-related drug targets, and SRP
Current Position Crystallographer, Gladstone Institute, San Francisco, CA

SHAMU, C.
Graduate Student 1991-1995
Research The unfolded protein response pathway in yeast
Current Position Fellow, Institute of Chemistry & Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

SHAN, S.
Postdoctoral Fellow 2000-2005
Research Mechanisms of SRP-mediated protein targeting
Current Position Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology
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SIDRAUSKI, C.
Graduate Student 1994-1998. Postdoctoral Fellow 1998-99
Research Intracellular signaling from the ER to the nucleus

SIEGEL, V.
Graduate Student 1983-1987
Research Functional dissection of mammalian SRP
Current Position Research Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
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STARK, M.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1998-2000
Research Characterization of upstream events that trigger activation of the transmembrane kinase/endoribonuclease Ire1p

STRUB, K.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1986-1990
Research Elongation arrest domain of SRP
Current Position Departement de Biologie Cellulaire, Universite de Geneve
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TAJIMA, S.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1984-1986
Research Subunit structure of SRP receptor
Current Position Professor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan

WALTHER, T.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2006
Research Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission, Eisosomes

Current Position Group Leader, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry (Organelle Dynamics and Architecture Group)
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WOLIN, S.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1987-1991
Research Translational control by SRP
Current Position Associate Professor, HHMI / Dept. of Cell Biology, Yale University
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ZIMMERMAN, D.
Graduate Student 1986-1992
Research Protein translocation apparatus
Current Position Scientist, Chiron Corp.

ZOPF, D.
Postdoctoral Fellow 1989-1992
Research Domain structure of SRP54
Current Position Research Scientist, Schering, Berlin