People
Current Lab Members
Jordan Beach, PhD
Associate Professor
Projects:
Positive reinforcement
Emailing
jbeach1 at luc.edu
@myosincity
Hiral Patel, Ms
Lab Manager
Projects: A little bit of everything
hpatel33 at luc.edu
Maggie Utgaard, Ms
PhD student - BMB
Joint with Oakes Lab
Responds to:
Maggie, Maggie #2, MaggieU, Maglet
Project: Septin dynamics
mutgaard at luc.edu
Sasha Demeulenaere
Joint with Oakes Lab
MD/Ph.D. Student - Physiology track
Project: Mechanics of smooth muscle cell differentiation
sdemeulenaere at luc.edu
Alumni
Summer Students
2018
Vraj Patel - undergraduate at Loyola University Chicago - Tyrosine phosphorylation of NM2A with Andre Cuevas
Matt Caron - high school student - purification and labelling nanobodies for immunofluorescence with Huini Wu
Proviso Math and Science Academy (PMSA) Students
2019
Emely Villarreal - mutation and analysis of NM2C phosphorylation
Jalen Whitehead - mutation and analysis of NM2C phosphorylation
Melissa Quintanilla
PhD student
NSF GRFP Fellow
Project:
Quantifying the number of NM2 monomers/filaments present throughout partitioning to differentiate theoretical models.
Investigating NM2-RhoA feedback loops.
mquintanilla1@luc.edu
Asia Paguntalan
Joint with Oakes Lab
M.S. Student - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Project:
apaguntalan@luc.edu
Andre Cuevas
Research Assistant 2017-2019
Projects:
Investigating tyrosine phosphorylation on MHC
Developing ELC-RLC-MHC fusions to compete phosphorylation events against each other
Current position: PhD candidate Emory University
Huini Wu, Ms
Research Assistant 2
Projects:
Multi-gene CRISPR-knock-in to image NM2 and regulators at endogenous levels.
Everything else going on in the lab
hwu8@luc.edu
Maggie Bennett
MD/PhD student
Responds to:
Maggie
MaggieB
Marge
Project: Smooth muscle myosin dynamics in normal and pathophysiology
Vraj Patel
Loyola University Chicago Medical Student
STAR recipient
Projects:
Effects of curcumin on gut microbiota and barrier function
Building apical junctions in epithelia
