Current Lab Members
Chase Beisel
Chase received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cal Tech with Dr. Christina Smolke, where he designed ligand-responsive RNAs. He is now obtaining experience with native RNAs by studying the advantages of small RNAs in regulatory circuits in vivo. He will apply this experience when he sets up his own laboratory at North Carolina State University where he plans to optimize the design of synthetic RNAs.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-496-4722
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: beiselcl@mail.nih.gov
Sylvain Durand
During his graduate work with Prof. Marc Uzan at the Institut Jacques Monod, Sylvain characterized the RegB endoribonuclease of bacteriophage T4. He has brought his expertise in studying RNA to elucidate the requirements for productive basepairing by small RNAs as well as to characterize the FrsA and OxyS small RNAs.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-496-4148
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: durandsy@mail.nih.gov
Fanette Fontaine
Fanette received her Ph.D. from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie working with Dr. Miroslav Radman and Dr. François Taddei. For her graduate work she studied the phenotypic variability in clonal populations of E. coli. She is now characterizing the small, hydrophobic proteins.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-402-0532
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: fontainf@mail.nih.gov
Elizabeth (Liz) Fozo
As a graduate student with Prof. Robert Quivey at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Liz showed that the fabM gene product is responsible for the shifts in membrane composition observed for Streptococcus mutans grown at different pH. Liz has now turned her attention to elucidating the roles of the Sib family of small RNAs.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-496-7082
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: fozoeliz@mail.nih.gov
Ryan Fuchs
Ryan joined the laboratory with RNA experience having characterized the SAM-binding SMK box riboswitch as a graduate student with Dr. Tina Henkin at The Ohio State University. He is now broadening his horizons by exploring new biochemical approaches to identify and characterize small proteins.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-496-4581
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: fuchsrt@mail.nih.gov
Errett Hobbs
As a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Rich Losick at Harvard University, Errett studied the phenomenon of cannibalism in Bacillus subtilis in which cells at the start of sporulation produce a killing factor and a protein toxin that kill non-sporulating siblings. Errett is now taking genome-wide approaches to investigate the functions of small proteins and small RNAs in E. coli.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-402-0968
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: hobbserr@mail.nih.gov
Maureen (Moe) Kiley
Moe is a graduate student at Georgetown University (the first graduate student in the Storz lab). Her first project is to identify new small RNAs by tiled microarray analysis and to characterize potential antisense RNAs.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-496-4779
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: kileyma@mail.nih.gov
Lauren (Laurie) Waters
As a graduate student with Prof. Graham Walker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laurie studied the yeast translesion polymerase Rev1, a member of the Y family of DNA polymerases. She found that the levels of the Rev1 are regulated 50-fold over the course of the cell cycle, but surprisingly the protein does not accumulate in response to DNA damage. She is now characterizing the functions of the RyfD and RybA RNAs.
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-402-0531
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: watersl@mail.nih.gov
Aixia Zhang
Aixia has worked on almost every aspect of the small RNA projects; often being called on to assist projects in the Storz lab as well as other labs. Most recently she has been carrying out tiling array experiments to detect new small RNAs. Contact Aixia for questions about protocols!
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
NIH, Building 18T, Room 101
18 LIBRARY DR MSC 5430
BETHESDA MD 20892-5430
Telephone: 301-496-4783
FAX: 301-402-0078
Email: zhanga@mail.nih.gov