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Emeson Lab Alumni

Graduate students

1996

Colleen M. Niswender (Burns), Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Director of Molecular Pharma­col­o­gy
Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery
Molecular studies of RNA editing in the mammalian
central nervous system

Jonathan T. Lu, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Director, Sarepta Therapeutics
Physiological studies of mice lacking α-calcitonin gene-related peptide

1997

Susan M. Uebele (Rueter), Ph.D.
Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals
Biochemical and molecular characterization of double-stranded RNA-spe­cif­ic adenosine deaminases involved in RNA editing

2002

Jongho Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Hallym University
Reduced neurogenic inflammation and normal nociceptive responses in αCGRP null mice

2004

T. Renee Dawson, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt University
Structure and sequence determinants of adenosine-to-inosine editing in ADAR2 pre-messenger RNA

Christopher Sansam, Ph.D.
Assistant Member
Cell Cycle & Cancer Biology Research Program
Oklahoma Research Foundation
Regulation of ADAR2 function

2005

Brent Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
The physiological roles of α- and β-CGRP in the mouse colon

Yi Feng, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Regulation of ADAR2 function by autoediting

2006

Ming Xu, Ph.D.
Instructor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Molecular mechanisms of ADAR2 localization and substrate specificity

2008

Michael Morabito, Ph.D.
Scientific Administrator
Weill Cornell School of Medicine
Mice with altered 5HT2C receptor RNA editing exhibit characteristics of Prader-Willi Syndrome

Elizabeth Rula, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Principal Investigator at Tivity Health
Identification and characterization of novel RNA editing substrates

Michelle Jacobs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Altered isoform expression of the serotonin 2C receptor disrupts normal maternal care

2014

Jennifer Hood, Ph.D.
Mother of two
Under Attack: Nervous System Patterns of RNA Editing in Response to Reovirus Infection

2015

Richard T. O’Neil, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Nephrology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dynamic regulation of A-to-I RNA editing in the brain

2015

Elizabeth A. Ferrick-Kiddie
Kv1.1 RNA Editing: Physiological Roles and its Implications for Episodic Ataxia Type-1

Post-doctoral fellows

2001

R. Blair McNeill, III, Ph.D.
Principal Process Development Scientist
Alkermes Pharmaceutical

2004

Minati Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa

2011

Xu-Ping Wang, Ph.D. (deceased)

2016

Randi Ulbricht, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Missouri State University