CAMBRONNE LAB
LAB MEMBERS

LULU CAMBRONNE, PH.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular Biosciences
College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Hon B.Sc. University of Toronto
Ph.D. Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Training Vollum Institute
Prof. Cambronne received a Hon.B.Sc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. mentored by Wade Harper in substrate recognition by ubiquitin ligases, as well as postdoctoral training under Richard Goodman in microRNA target identification and NAD+ biology. Dr. Cambronne has been honored both at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels with individual Kirschstein National Service Research Awards, Albert J Ryan and Samuel Lunenfeld Fellowships, the Hilcrest Committee Pilot Award, and was named the 2013 OHSU New Inventor of the Year for her development and commercialization of the RISC-trap/miR-trap assay to empirically identify targets for specific microRNAs in cells. She is a 2017 recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and a 2020 Pew Scholar.

Jessica Taylor, B.Sc.
Lab Manager and Research Engineering/Scientist Associate
B.Sc., Louisiana State University
Home town: Bastrop, Louisiana

Jared M. Eller, M.Sc.
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry
B.Sc., Clemson University Genetics
Home town: Lexington, South Carolina

Matthew Petershack, B.Sc.
Research Engineering/Scientist Associate
B.Sc., Texas A&M University
Home town: San Antonio, TX

Mu-Jie Lu, M.Sc.
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
B.Sc., National Chung-Cheng University, Dept. of Life Science
M.Sc., National Yang Ming University Institute of Genome Sciences
Home town: Taichung City, Taiwan

Mu-Jie Lu, M.Sc.
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
B.Sc., National Chung-Cheng University, Dept. of Life Science
M.Sc., National Yang Ming University Institute of Genome Sciences
Home town: Taichung City, Taiwan
Shivansh Goyal, M.Tech
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry
B.Tech & M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Dual Degree, Biological Engineering
Home town: Meerut, India

Mason Galliver, B.Sc.
Research Engineering/Scientist Associate
B.Sc., University of Texas at Dallas
Home town: Austin, TX
Gayathree Gopi
Undergraduate Student Researcher
University of Texas at Austin
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Home town: Princeton, NJ
Alumni
Jule Goike
Ricardo Noyola Lozano
Kamyab Javanmardi
Amanda Bohanon
Zubia Akhtar
Valli Annamalai
Mary Yu
Ashley Gilliam
Jesus Balderas
Austin Kindall
Paul Oliphint
Alec Weigel
Nhat Tran
Brandon Thai
Madeline McGuire
Spring Rotation Student (2018 Feb - April)
Research Assistant (2018 Feb - Sept)
Fall Rotation Student (2018 Sept - Nov)
Fall Rotation Student (2019 Aug - Nov)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2018 - 2019 Dec)
Lab Manager/Research Assistant (2019 Feb - 2020 Mar)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2019 - 2020)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 Spring)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 Spring)
Winter Rotation Student (2020 March - Dec)
Research Assistant (2019 Aug - 2021 Jan)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 Jun - Dec)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2020 Oct - 2021 Dec)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2020 Nov - 2021 Dec)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 Jul - 2022 Jan)
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