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Seth is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology and National Academy of Sciences, in addition to being a recipient of the 2022 Aminoff prize in crystallography. He obtained a B.S. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in Chemical Engineering. After nine years of postgraduate education in Chemical Engineering, he finally realized he didn't want to be an engineer when he grows up, so he joined the laboratory of Roger Kornberg and tried to learn about transcription. After 35 years, he still hasn't figured it out.
Fun fact: he's quite the distinguished classical pianist!
Fun fact: he's quite the distinguished classical pianist!
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Wamiah was born and raised in Bangladesh before moving to the US to attend Mount Holyoke College where she majored in Biochemistry. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied an iron-sulfur cluster containing transcription factor in E.coli in the lab of Dr. Tricia Kiley. She is excited to be moving back to the East Coast for her postdoc! During her free time, she enjoys experimenting with cooking and reading thriller/suspense books.
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Joshua graduated from University College London (UCL) in 2021 with an integrated Master's degree in Biochemistry, and began his graduate studies at Rockefeller in the fall of 2021. He is working on the structural and biochemical mechanisms behind how foreign factors manipulate and exploit bacterial transcription machinery, with T4 phage and pRK2 (IncP-1 plasmids) as case studies in E. coli. |
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Yukti was born and raised in New Delhi, India. She earned her bachelor's degree in biotechnology from Delhi in 2018. She did her PhD in the Sashital Lab at Iowa State University. Her thesis work focused on understanding mechanisms of memory formation in CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems. She used cryo-EM and biochemistry to demonstrate how Cas4-Cas1-Cas2 complex achieves processing and integration of short DNA sequences into a CRISPR array. She is excited to integrate her interest in transcription from her undergraduate days with cryo-EM from graduate school for her postdoc in the Darst-Campbell lab.
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Gabe graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020 with a degree in biochemistry and began his graduate studies at Rockefeller in 2020. He is interested in the structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 replicase machinery, especially the NiRAN domain on nsp12. |
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Andreas conducted his undergraduate studies at the University of Stuttgart in Germany a concentration in biochemistry. He then moved to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, for his PhD research on genes of unknown function associated with the bacterial proteasome, where he discovered the major transcriptional regulator of the DNA damage response in mycobacteria - a crucial stage during the early phase of tuberculosis infection. His interest in transcription piqued, leading to his current study in the dynamics and structural mechanisms of bacterial RNA polymerase.
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Josh attained his B.A. in Political Science from the Claremont Colleges, CA, before pursuing a career in the Washington D.C. beltway. After developing his interest in research science, he began training in biochemistry at Columbia University, NY, where he also began working in the protein crystallography lab of Dr. Lawrence Shapiro; studying cell adhesion molecules in Drosophila melanogaster. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the Rockefeller University, NY, in the lab of Dr. Seth Darst and Dr. Elizabeth Campbell. His research focuses on the structural mechanisms of Bacterial RNA-Polymerase promoter escape and the various functional and structural features of the transcription factor DNA-translocase MFD. |
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Anoosha graduated from Barnard College in 2020 with a degree in biochemistry. After working for two years as a research assistant, she decided to pursue her PhD and is a graduate student in the Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Program. During her time in the Darst-Campbell lab, Anoosha hopes to learn about the structural biology of hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase and gain mechanistic insight on its role in viral replication. In her free time, Anoosha loves to cook, go for long walks, and cuddle her two menacing cat children.
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Born and raised in Colombia (not Columbia). She got a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in medical engineering from the Technical University of Munich. After working closely with biologists during her studies, she decided to take a job in biology to see what all the fuss is about. In her free time, she’s trying to make the best out of living in New York!
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From Pune, India, Rukmini attended the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she pursued biochemistry and molecular biology. At UMass Amherst, she was involved in research focusing on polymeric nanomaterials for biotherapeutic delivery. Now as an RA in the Darst-Campbell labs, she aims to aid the investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent- RNA polymerase for its role in the transcription and replication of the viral genome. Outside of work, her interests lie in working out and exploring new cafes in the city serving the best lattes! |