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Molecular and Computational Biology University of Southern California 1050 Childs Way MCB 108 Los Angeles CA 90089-2910 Members of our group
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![[Forsburg Lab]](/~forsburg/images/labpic08.jpg) lab picture, summer 2008 (pombewood meeting). | |
| Group pictures (also check out the historical lab photos, and the successful genetics experiments of the lab F1 generation) | ||
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![[First four students]](/~forsburg/images/students.jpg)
Susan's first four students at Debbie's thesis defense (December 2000). Debbie, Susan and Dan S. (PhD 1999) at the top, Mike (PhD 2004) and Will (PhD 2005) below. |
![[Reunion in Kyoto]](/~forsburg/images/reunion.jpg)
Postdoc reunion in Kyoto at the 2nd fission yeast meeting in 2002: Julie, Sally, Susan, Eliana, and Hilary. Julie is a senior scientist at Pfizer; Eliana is staff scientist at Barofold; Sally is an associate prof at San Francisco State, and Hilary is a research associate at the ICMB, Edinburgh. | |
![[On the road]](/~forsburg/images/roadtrip.jpg)
Road trip to the FASEB yeast meeting in July 2000: Eliana, Susan and Sally crossing the continental divide. |
![[At work]](/~forsburg/images/atwork.jpg)
Susan and Rebecca at work (summer 2005) in a completely staged moment for the USC photographer. |
Pao-Chen (TA award) and Matt (SCynergy Award to graduating senior) with Susan at the 2008 Biology Awards Luncheon. |
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Susan L Forsburg
Professor, USC
AB, UC Berkeley; PhD, MIT; postdoc, ICRF/Oxford
Projects: writing grants; supervising students; teaching; grad committee chair; webmaster; obscure genetics experiments
Publications: See the complete list on the research page.
Susan's recent awards and other events:
Some links:
Douglas Dalle Luche
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Sao Paolo
Project: links between replication and recombination
Bailis, J.M., Luche, D.D. Hunter, T., and Forsburg, S.L. (2008) MCM proteins interact with checkpoint and recombination proteins to promote S phase genome stability Mol. Cell. Biol. 28:1724-38
Ruben Petreaca
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, UC Riverside
Project: Mst1 and damage
Watch here for links!
Sarah Sabatinos
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Toronto
Project: Meiotic DSBs
Watch here for links!
Lin Ding
Graduate Student, USC Molecular & Computational Biology
BS, U. Toronto
Project: TBD
Watch here for links!
Anh-Huy "Anthony" Le
Graduate Student, USC Molecular & Computational Biology
BS, CSU Fullerton
Project: Hsk1 function and associations
Watch here for links!
Pao-Chen Li
Graduate student, USC Molecular & Computational Biology
BS, National Taiwan Univ, MS, National Tsing Hua Univ
Projects: replication and centromeres
Rebecca Nugent
Graduate student, USC Molecular & Computational Biology
BS, Univ. Michigan
Projects: chromatin modification and replication
Gómez EB, Nugent RL, Laria S, Forsburg SL. Schizosaccharomyces pombe histone acetyltransferase Mst1 (KAT5) is an essential protein required for damage response and chromosome segregation.
Genetics. 2008 Jun;179(2):757-71.
Ji-Ping Yuan
Marc Green
Technician, Microscopy applications
Rotations in our lab are available through the Molecular & Computational Biology Program (Molecular track), and through the PIBBS program at the USC-Keck School of Medicine. Generally we will accept one graduate student per year into the lab.
Chief Technician, Lab Manager
BS, Hebei Univ (China), MS, Cal State Uniiv-LA
Projects: lab management, methods, MCM mutagenesis, screens
MS, Toronto
Projects: everything to do with imaging
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Lab Assistants, undergraduate students, and summer visitors:
Positions for undergraduates are often available for lab and project support. To join our team, you need lots of enthusiasm, responsibility, maturity, and scientific curiosity. An adventurous taste in food also helps! ;-) Interested? Contact us.
Former students: check out pictures on our USC grads page for commencement photos.
| Cara Bickers, USC Rose Hills Fdn Fellow  | Brian Fowler, USC CEGS Fellow  | Lisa Tran, USC lab assistant  |
| Tarim Song, USC lab assistant  |
Canan Sayitoglu, Sabanci University Turkey visiting student  |
Peggy Weng, USC McNair fellow  |
Felix
Rubber Snake
Projects: exploring hidden places in the lab
| The Bettas Bettas are Siamese fighting fish. Read more about this easy-to-keep species here. | ||||
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CJ
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We observe that fishkeepers can be divided into goldfish people, or betta people. Susan's 3 small community tanks in her office and at home contain a mix of different danios, platties, tetras, and barbs (gold barbs: the friendly barbs!). | ||||
Millions of pombe cells
The experimental system
They havent mastered e-mail yet, and they aren't much at web-surfing, but they are featured on
Former members:
Sabine Ottilie ( postdoc), now a consultant in San Diego
Robert Kovelman ( postdoc), now at Signal Pharmaceuticals, San Diego
Randy Yasuda ( technician), now at Invitrogen Corporation, San Diego.
Dan Sherman ( PhD student), now brewing at his own software company.
Hilary Snaith ( postdoc), now a research fellow (Sawin Lab) at the ICMB, Edinburgh University
Danielle Paige (formerly Bishop) ( MS student), now teaching high school
Sally Pasion ( postdoc), Associate Professor, San Francisco State University.
Debbie Liang ( PhD student), postdoc'd at Caltech and now raising a family in Switzerland
Rania Siam ( postdoc), Assistant Professor, American University, Cairo Egypt
Vanessa Angeles ( tech), now a PhD student at UCSF
Mike Catlett ( PhD student), now a staff scientist at Novozyme
Allison Shearer ( MS student), assistant professor at Grossmont Community College in San Diego CA
Nick Herrera (PhD student), finished his degree at UCSD (J. Pogliano lab).
Beth Rasala (PhD student), finishing her degree at UCSD (D. Forbes lab)
Jeff Hodson (technician), McBain Instruments
John Marlett(technican), still at the Salk Institute (J. Young lab).
Dan Pankratz (PhD student), staff scientist, Affymetrix.
Julie Bailis (postdoc), Senior Scientist, Amgen Seattle
Eliana Gomez (postdoc), staff scientist, Barofold Inc in CO.
Will Dolan (PhD student), management consultant
Angel Tabancay (postdoc), instructional faculty, USC , and freeway flyer
Check out everyone's kids!
Visitors:
Pernille Winding Andersen, graduate student from University of Copenhagen, spent a summer with us. Now a patent attorney in Denmark.
Magdalena Bezanilla, graduate student from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Salk Structural Biology Lab, spent several months in our lab learning pombe. Now on the faculty at UMass Amherst
Roddy O'Sullivan, undergraduate from Trinity College, Dublin. After a PhD at IMP/Vienna, returning to Salk as a psotdoc
Jennifer Gilbert, undergraduate from Trinity College, Dublin. Now exploring the world.
Sebastian Laria, graduate student at INGEBI-CONICET in Buenos Aires. Now pursuing other adventures.
Diana Libuda, UCLA undergrad. Now a PhD student at Harvard Med.
Ji-Young Youn, undergrad at Yonsei University in Korea. Now doing a PhD at Columbia
Aysegul Verim, undergrad, Bogazici University, Turkey. Now doing a PhD at Baylor College of Medicine.
Martina Spranger, MS, Braunschweig Technical University, Germany. About to embark on her PhD.
Canan Sayitoglu, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
USC undergraduates:
Roy Won ('05). Now finishing a Masters at George Washington Univ.
Kyung Ji ('06). Now at Ross Medical School
Mike Go ('06). Now doing an MD in the Phillipines
Paula Tran ('07). Now doing an MD at UCSD
Wilson Ong (BS/MS '07). Now doing an MD in the UK
Jesse Tran ('07). Applying to med school
Belinda Chang ('08). ???
Matt Getz (BS/MS '08). Now doing a postbacc at the NIH
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