Current Tollefsbol lab M.S. and Ph.D. students:
- Sabita Saldanha: Epigenetics in aging and cancer (Ph.D. Program)
- Joseph DeAngelis: Epigenetics of breast cancer tumorigenesis (Ph.D. Program)
- Huaping Chen: Cancer prevention epigenetics and telomerase inhibition (Ph.D. Program)
- Anna Pendleton: Epigentics of cancer prevention (M.S. Program)
Previous Tollefsbol lab students:
- Joseph Poole: Epigenetic modulation of the telomerase promoter (M.S.,
2001)
- Mark Casillas: Neoplastic transformation of human lung
fibroblasts: Regulation of hTERT and DNA methyltransferase activity
(M.S., 2002).
- Sabita Saldanha: Analysis of promoter regulation of the catalytic
subunit of telomerase (hTERT) (M.S., 2002)
- Nathan Hansen: Epigenetics of telomerase gene regulation in aging
and cancer (M.S. 2003)
- Rebecca Wylie: 9cUAB30 retinoic acid as a potential treatment for human
breast cancer (M.S., 2005)
- Amanda Cunningham: Inhibition of hTERT in human cancer cells using RNA interference (M.S., 2005)
- Serene Lai: Evidence of extra-telomeric effects of hTERT and its regulation involving a positive feedback loop (M.S., 2005)
- W. Kliph Love: Inhibition of Telomerase in Human Leukemia Cells (M.S., 2006)
- Joel Berletch: Telomerase gene regulation in response to polyphenols in cancer prevention (Ph.D.2007)
- Sharla Phipps: Analysis of telomerase in embryonic and cancer cells (Ph.D. 2007)
Current Tollefsbol Lab Postdoctoral Fellows:
- Yuanyuan Li: Epigenetics of tumorigenesis
Previous Tollefsbol Lab Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates:
- Joyce Haskell: Manager of the Cell Senescence Culture Facility.
- Nadejda Lopatina: DNA methyltransferases in aging and cancer cells.
- Mitchell Pate: Manager of the Cell Senescence Culture Facility.
- Liang Liu: DNA methyltransferases in aging and cancer
- Canhui Liu: EGCG and epigenetic control of telomerase in cancer
- Sabrina Walthall: Caloric restriction in cancer and aging
Previous Tollefsbol lab Junior Faculty:
- Liang Liu (Assistant Research Professor): Epigenetics and Bmi-1 in cancer and aging
- Stephanie Yap (Assistant Professor; Morehouse University): Epigenetics of ovarian cancer
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