People

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Ramji K. Bhandari, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Gene-Environment Interactions
Epigenetics

GOOGLE SCHOLAR
ORCiD / PubMed
Curriculum Vitae

RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

Santosh Anand, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Bioinformatician and Data Analyst

Sourav Chakraborty, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Epigenetic basis for the development and progression of transgenerational metabolic diseases

GOOGLE SCHOLAR
PubMed

Su Men
Visiting Researcher

Interaction of BPA with the human liver and bronchial epithelial cells in vitro
Histological alterations in the liver caused by transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Jayasree Nath
Graduate Student

Gene-environment interactions in gonadal somatic cells

Anjana Giri
Graduate Student

Gene-environment interactions in gonadal germ cells

Hunter Kulesz

Graduate Student

Immune responses of the current generation with a history of ancestral BPA exposure to infectious pathogen signals

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Justin Kirkpatrick
Sophomore

Histological alterations in the liver and gonads caused by environmental chemical exposure. Together with S. Chakraborty and Su Men. 

CRISPR-mediated epigenome editing of DNA methylation in medaka embryos.

Noah Adams
Sophomore

CRISPR-mediated epigenome editing of DNA methylation in medaka embryos

Darcey Wright
Freshmen

Immune responses of the current generation with a history of ancestral BPA exposure to infectious pathogen signals. The project is together with Hunter Kulesz. 

Thomas Nickel
Junior, Honors Research Project

Environmentally induced epigenetic aging of the liver

Colson Schmit
Junior

Expression of mitochondrial genes during intergenerational inheritance of the liver disease

Seb Sweaney
Sophomore

Environmentally induced intergenerational epigenetic inheritance of liver disease

Aiva Rudolf
Freshmen

Gene-environment interactions in testicular somatic cells

Drew Bunge
Sophomore

Epigenetic reprogramming of parental germline memories in early cleavage embryos

Mina Giurgius
Junior

Gene environment interactions in testicular germ cells

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Lab: 219 Lefevre Hall

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