CAMBRONNE LAB
LAB MEMBERS
LULU CAMBRONNE, PH.D.
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor with tenure
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, a 2020 Pew Biomedical Scholar, 2020-2021 Scialog Fellow, 2022 MAVEN Scientist, 2022 William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow, and the 2022-2023 recipient of the College of Natural Sciences Foundation Teaching Excellence Award.
Congcong Lyu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Hunan Agricultural University, Veterinary Medicine
Ph.D., Huazhong Agricultural University, Veterinary Medicine
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Home town: Loudi, China
Scott Lyons, B.Sc.
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry
B.Sc, University of Washington
Biochemistry
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Hometown: Poulsbo, Washington
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Crystal Wilson, B.Sc.
Research Scientist Associate II
B. Sc., Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Marine Biology
Home town: Galveston, Texas
Hsin-Ru Chan, M.Sc.
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
B.Sc., National Yang-Ming University, Department of Life Sciences
M.Sc., National Taiwan University, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Hometown: New Taipei City, Taiwan
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Vanna Nguyen, B.Sc.
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry
B. Sc., University of Houston
Biochemistry
Home town: Houston, Texas
Brahm Jones B.Sc.
Research Scientist Associate I
B.Sc. Texas A&M Texarkana, RELLIS​
Biology ​
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Home town: Corpus Christi, Texas
Alumni
Jessie (Mu-Jie) Lu, Ph.D. Candidate 2018-2024, Postdoctoral Fellow Tsvetkov Lab BIDMC, Boston MA
Shivansh Goyal, Ph.D. Candidate 2018-2024, Postdoctoral Fellow Baker Lab Institute for Protein Design, Seattle, WA
Jared Eller, Ph.D. Candidate 2017-2022, Industry Scientist
Visiting Masters Students
Leona Dörries, M.Sc. Biochemistry ETH Zürich 2025-2026, M.SC. Science Communication, University of College London
Rotation Students
2o25/26: Melissa Butler, Abu Siddick
2024/25: Sarah Bayne, Vanna Nguyen, Mohammed Hassaballah​
2023/24: Yun-fei Huang, Zoe Norton, Rita Ousterhout, Abi Rohy
2022/23: Scott Lyons, Donghwa Suh, Wei-Che Tseng
2021/22: Hsin-Ru Chan
2020/21: Austin Kindall
2019/20: Amanda Bohanon
2018/19: Shivansh Goyal, Kamyab Javanmardi, Jessie Lu
2018: Jared Eller, Jule Goike
Undergraduates and Research Assistants:
Tamima Tahsin, URA 2024-2026 MD program, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Kelton Deloney, RA 2023-2025, Emerald Cloud Labs, Austin
Lorren Cantu, URA 2022-2023, MD program, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine
Rebecca Liu, URA 2022-2023
Nesha Rubin, URA 2022, PhD Program, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M
Gayathree Gopi, URA 2021-2022, MA Program in Business Analytics, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
Matthew Petershack, RA 2021-2022, PhD Program University of Michigan
Jessica Taylor, RA 2021, MD Program LSU School of Medicine
Alec Weigel, URA 2021 Fellow for the Science and Technology Policy Institute
Ashley Gilliam, URA 2020-2021, MS UTHealth
Brandon Thai, URA 2020-2021, MD Program UTMB SOM
Nhat Tran, URA 2020-2021, PhD Program Weill Cornell Graduate Studies at Houston
Ciara Fields, RA 2020
Mary Yu, URA 2019-2020, MD Program at Baylor College of Medicine;
Valli Annamalai, RA 2019, PhD Program at UT Southwestern
Ricardo Noyola Lozano, RA 2018
Zubia Akhtar, URA 2018-2020, MHA Program at Johns Hopkins University
Paul Oliphint, RA 2018-2020, Center for Biomedical Research Support, UT Austin
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