Former Lab Members (many pictures are from when they were in the lab, they may look older now)
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William F. Ettinger - Postdoc from 1989 to 1992, worked on the assembly
of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolvng complex. He is currently a Professor at Gonzaga University
and Chair of the Biology Department. |
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Sidney Varian Scott -
Graduate Student from 1989 to 1993. Thesis title: The Mechanism
of Protein Transport Across the Chloroplast Envelope Membranes. |
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Sonya A. Clark - Postdoc
from 1993 to 1996, worked on the transport of proteins across the envelope
and thylakoid membranes. She was a Principal Scientist at Complete Genomics before we lost track of her. |
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Robin
A. Roffey - Postdoc from 1993 to 1996, worked on the assembly of the
photosynthetic oxygen-evolvng complex. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Biological
Sciences at Sacramento City College. |
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Akiko Hashimoto - Visiting Graduate Student from 1993 to 1996. During
the three years she spent in the Theg lab, she was a registered student
at Okayama University, which remained the degree granting institution.
Thesis title: Assembly of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Complex
Subunits from Higher Plants: Site of Assembly and Mechanism of Binding.
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Ellen
A. Leheny - Graduate Student from 1991 to 1996. Thesis title: An
Investigation of the Conservation of Protein Transport Pathways in Chloroplasts.
She is now Director, Melanoma Business Analytics and Insights Lead at Pfizer in New York City. |
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Sarah
A. Teter - Graduate Student from 1993 to 1997. Thesis title: Electrophysiological
and Mechanistic Characterization of a Post-translational Protein Transport
Machinery: The Thylakoid Delta pH-Dependent Pathway. She is currently a Project Director at Novozymes.
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Yuka Tomokawa - Visiting Graduate Student from July 1998 to February
1999. She returned to Japan to finish her Master's degree with Professor Yasusi Yamamoto at Okayama University. |
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Siegfried
Musser - Postdoc from 1997 to August 1999. Worked on the mechanism of
protein transport on the thylakoid deltapH-dependent pathway. He is now a Professor at Texas A&M University.
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Mark Havrilla Ainsworth - Graduate student from 1995-2000.Thesis title: Delta-pH Dependant Thylakoid Protein Translocation. Mark is the Biotechnology Program Coordinator/Instructor
at Seattle Central Community College. Click on his picture to learn more.
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Heather Scott - Graduate student from 1998 to 2000. After a stint as
a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania, in western Afirca, she taught high school in New York City. She is now
living in Ithica, N.Y. Click on
her picture to learn more...
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Nancy Pergam Alder- Graduate Student from 1998-2002. You can learn more about her by
clicking on her picture |
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Nathan
Alder - Graduate Student from 1998-2002. Thesis title: Analysis of the Energentics and Kinetics of Protein Transport via the Delta-pH Dependent/cpTAT Pathway in Thylakoids. Nathan is currently an
Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut. Click on his picture to go to his lab's webpage.
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Nancy Hoffman - Plant Biology Graduate
Student from 2000-2005. Thesis title: Protein Targeting in Chloroplasts.
She is currently a Science Editor at The Plant Cell. |
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Nikolai Braun - Biophysics Graduate Student from 2002-2007. Thesis title: Energetic Studies of the cpTat Protein
Transport Pathway. |
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Mathias Labs - Visiting Masters Student from Dresden Technical University, March - September 2011.
Thesis title: A Folded Protein can be Imported into Chloroplasts.
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Shari Lo - Plant Biology Graduate Student from 2006-2012. Thesis title: Role of Vesicle-Inducing Protein in Plastids 1 in cpTat Transport at
the Thylakoid.
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Terry Bricker - Sabbatical Visiting Professor from Louisiana State University during the 2011/2012 academic year. Terry retired to the foothills in Shingle Springs,
and is a regular in the lab now.
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Laurie Frankel - Sabbatical Visiting Researcher from Louisiana State University during the 2011/2012 academic year. Laurie retired with Terry to
Shigle Springs.
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Lily Liu - Postdoctoral Researcher from 2011-2014. She is currently a Professor at the
Kunming Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Lan-Xin Shi - Project Scientist from 2003-2014. She is currently a scientist with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.
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Xiaochun Wang - Sabbatical Visiting Professor from Henan Agricultural University during 2014.
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Jonathan Ho - Biophysics Graduate Student from 2000 - 2016. Thesis title: The Dynamic Morphology of the Chloroplast Organelle and Its
Effects on Biological Processes He is currently a researcher at LakeParma.
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Ralph McNeilage - BMCDB Graduate Student from 2010- 2016. Thesis title: Protein Import into Chloroplasts
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Philip Day - Plant Biology Graduate Student from 2014 - 2019. Philip was a student with Kentaro Inoue until 2016 and joined the Theg lab that year when
Kentaro was tragically killed in a traffic accident. He worked as a postdoc in Hans-Henning Kunz's lab at Washington State University in Pullman, WA
and then moved to his current position at Elemental Enzymes St. Louis. Thesis title: Evolution and Sorting of Chloroplast Outer Membrane Beta-Barrel Proteins
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Iniyan Ganesan - Plant Biology Graduate Student from 2014 - 2020. He is currently a postdoc in Nils Wiedermann's group in Freiburg, Germany.
Thesis title: Mechanisms of Protein Translocation in Chloroplasts and Bacteria
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Anthony Asher - BMCDB Graduate Student from 2014 - 2020. Thesis title: Ion Conductivity and Interfacial Protons at the Pisum sativum Thylakoid Lumen
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Lucas Mckinnon - Plant Biology Graduate Student from 2014 - 2020. Lucas was a graduate student
with Kentaro Inoue until his 2016, and joined the Theg lab after Kentaro's death. He is now working for Pioneer in St. Louis.
Thesis title: Interplay Between Disulfide Bond Formation, Membrane Lipids, and pH in the Folding of
Plastidic Type I Signal Peptidase 1 and Implications For Other Thylakoid Proteins
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Laura Klasek - Plant Biology Graduate Student from 2014 - 2020. Laura was also a graduate student with Kentaro Inoue until he was killed, and joined the Theg lab in 2016.
Kentaro was tragically killed in a traffic accident. She currently works for Elemental Enzymes in St. Louis. Thesis title:Chaperonin-Mediated Targeting of Plastidic Type I Signal Peptidase 1
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Hope Hao - Plant Biology Graduate Student from 2016-2022, Postdoc for 6 months until 2023. Currently a
postdoc in Randy Schekman's lab at UC-Berkeley. Thesis title:Analysis of the Mechanism of Protein Transport via the Twin-arginine Translocation Pathway
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Christine Zhou - Undergraduate Researcher, and 2022 CBS Undergraduate of the Year. Currently a graduate student
in the Cancer Biology Program at Stanford |  |