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- McKenna Lab
Group photo taken outside of the University of Florida Brain Institute 2007.
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Group pictures from past years
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
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- Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna
Received her Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of London under the direction of Dr. Stephen Neidle.
Current research includes study of ssDNA Geminiviridae, Microviridae,
Parvoviridae, and Circoviridae.
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- Dr. Robert McKenna
Received his Ph.D. in Crystallography at the University of London under the direction of Dr. Stephen Neidle. Current research includes structure function studies on carbonic anhydrases, Mn Superoxide Dismutase, and HIV proteases.
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Assistant Scientists
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- Dr. Hyun-Joo Nam
Received her Ph. D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology
from Harvard University under the direction of Dr. Christin Frederick. Current
research includes virus and protein crystallography.
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- Dr. Lakshmanan Govindasamy
Received his MSc., M.Phil., Ph.D., in Biophysics from the University of Madras,
under the direction of Dr. Devadasan Velmurugan. Current research includes virus and protein
crystallography.
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- Dr. Arthur Robbins
Received his Ph. D. in Crystallography at the University of Pittsburgh, under the direction of Dr. G. A. Jeffrey. Art's duties include maintaining the X-ray facility. His current research interests include carbonic anhydrase and HIV protease.
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Graduate Students
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- Antonette Bennett
Antonette graduated with her BSc in Chemistry from the University of the West Indies. She is currently working on her Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Mavis McKenna on structure/function studies on the assembly pathways of ssDNA virus.
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- Brittney Whitaker
Brittney graduated with a B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science from the University of Florida. She is currently working on her Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Mavis
McKenna on structure/function studies on AAV.
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- Nicolette Case
Nicolette graduated with a B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science from the University of Florida. She is currently working on her Ph.D. under the direction of Drs. Robert McKenna and David Silverman on structure/function studies on Carbonic Anhydrase IX with the goal to produce isoform specfic inhibitors.
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- John Domsic
John graduated with a B.S. in Biology from Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) in 2005 where he worked on the structure of bacteriophage HK97 under the guidance of Dr. Brandi Baros. He is currently working on his Ph.D. under the direction of Drs. Robert McKenna and David Silverman on structure/function studies of Mn Superoxide Dismutase.
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- Katherine Sippel
Katherine Sippel received her B.S. in Chemistry from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. She is currently working on the kinetic and pharmacological studies of carbonic anhydrase, and the structures of various mosquito carbonic anhydrases, the mycoplasma hyorhinis protein, p37, and human dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 1 (DDAH).
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- Balendu Sankara Avvaru
Balu earned his Masters in Biotechnology in 2005 from PSG College of Arts and Science, India. He is currently working towards a Ph.D under the direction of Drs. Robert McKenna and David Silverman on the macromolecular structure and enzyme kinetics of human carbonic anhydrase II and human mitochondrial manganese superoxide dismutase.
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- Sujata Halder (Tina)
Tina recived her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of New Delhi. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Mavis McKenna understanding how the capsid structure of minute virus of mice plays a role in controlling the tropism and pathogenicity of this family of viruses.
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Technical Support Staff
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- Michael DiMattia
Michael is our esteemed lab manager. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology as an undergraduate at the University of Florida
working under the direction of Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna. His current research interests
are releted to structural studies of adeno-associated viruses.
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Undergraduate Students
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- Rose Mikulski
Rose is currently working towards a double major in Microbiology
and Political Science as an undergraduate at the University of
Florida. Her undergraduate research involves structural studies of
human manganese Superoxide Dismutase (MnSOD).
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- Adam Carter
Adam is currently working towards a major in Biochemistry as an undergraduate at the
University of Florida. His undergraduate research involves the isolation, characterization, crystallization, and structure determination of Adeno-Associated Virus serotype 9 (AAV9).
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- Caroli Genis
Caroli is currently working towards a double major in Biochemistry and Microbiology as an undergraduate at the
University of Florida. Her undergraduate research involves the study of Carbonic Anhydrase - inhibitors complexes.
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- Odayme Quesada
Odayma is currently working towards a major in Biochemistry as an undergraduate at the
University of Florida. Her undergraduate research involves the isolation, characterization, crystallization, and structure determination of Adeno-Associated Virus serotype 7 (AAV7).
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- Iyerus Tariku
Iyerus is currently working towards a major in Biochemistry as an undergraduate at the
University of Florida. Her undergraduate research involves the isolation and characterization of a mosquito Carbonic Anhydrase.
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- Edward Miller
Edward is currently working towards a B.S. in Chemistry as an
undergraduate at the University of Florida. He is a Beckman Scholar working
under the direction of Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna. His undergraduate research involves isolation, characterization, crystallization, and structure determination of Adeno-Associated Virus serotype 1 (AAV1).
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