Center for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Center Directory
Research Faculty POSTDOC ASSOCIATES Labs
Faculty
Dr. Alex Flynt
Associate Professor
Focus Area
Genetics
Methods used in the lab: My lab use eukaryotic cell culture, advanced microscopy, recombinant DNA technologies,
RNA extraction/manipulation methods, and bioinformatics. We develop custom pipelines
for high performance compute environments
Lab members: Olga Mavrodi (Lab manager); Sweta Khanal; Taiya Jarva; Lanu Owolabi; Cory Von Eiff; Beatriz
Zanacanela (Technican)
Dr. Jacques Kessl
Assistant Professor
Focus Area
Biochemistry, Virology
Methods used in the lab: Routine biochemistry and virlogy methods including molecular biology, protein expression
and purificaition, ELISA, immunolotting, and mammiliam cell culture.
Lab members: Tolga Catmakas; Krunal Patel
Dr. Dmitri Mavrodi
Associate Professor
Focus Area
Microbiology
Methods used in the lab: Routine microbiological methods, microbiome analysis, plant assays, genome sequencing,
gene cloning, transposon and gene replacement mutagenesis, two-hybrid analysis, metabolomics,
transcriptomics (RNA-seq), bioinformatics, microscopy.
Lab members: Ankita Bhattacharyya; Niladri Bhowmik
Dr. Vijay Rangachari
Full Professor
Focus Area
Biochemistry, Biophysics
Methods used in the lab: Routine biochemistry and biophysical methods including molecular biology, protein
expression and purificaition, chromatography, biomolecular spectroscopy (fluorescence,
circular dichroism, FTIR, NMR), microscopy, light scattering, ELISA, immunolotting,
and mammiliam cell culture.
Lab members: Shailendra Dhakal; Jhinuk Saha; Maly Mandal
Dr. Hao Xu
Associate Professor
Focus Area
Cell Biology
Methods used in the lab: ELISA, confocal microscopy, cell culture, CRISPRE, RNAi, in vitro reconstitution,
protein expression and purification, immunoprecipitation, molecular cloning
Lab members: Tolulope Ayo; John Vine
Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Deepak Kumar
Member of Dr. Karim's Lab
Dr. Olga Mavrodi
Member of Dr. Flynt's Lab and INBRE.
Labs
- Doug Iverson | Biochemical Lab Coordinator and Instrument Manager
- Jonathan Lindner | Imaging Facility Director
