Lab Members



Mark Hochstrasser

Principal Investigator

B.A.    Rutgers University
Ph.D.   University of California, San Francisco
Postdoc. MIT
Andrew Kusmierczyk

Associate Research Scientist
Proteasome assembly

B.Sc.   Queen's University
Ph.D.   Brown University
David Adle

Postdoctoral Associate
Functions of Doa10 in ER-associated degradation

B.S.  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ph.D.  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Minoru Funakoshi

Postdoctoral Associate
Assembly of 26S proteasome

B.Sc.    Kyushu University
Ph.D.    Kyushu University
Postdoc. Kyushu University
Eric Rubenstein

Postdoctoral Fellow
Nuclear function of Doa10

B.S.   Grove City College
Ph.D.  University of Pittsburgh
Dan Su

Postdoctoral Associate
SUMO proteases in yeast

B.S.    Jilin University
M.S.    Jilin University
Ph.D.   Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln
Robert J. Tomko, Jr.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Assembly of the 19S regulatory particle lid complex

B.S.    Lebanon Valley College
Ph.D.   University of Pittsburgh
Rachael Felberbaum

Graduate Student
SUMOylation in mRNA surveillance

B.A.  University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Gillies

Graduate Student
Regulation of sumoylation and desumoylation

B.Sc.  University of Pittsburgh
Mary Kunjappu

Graduate Student
Assembly of the 19S base subcomplex of the 26S proteasome

B.A.  Barnard College, Columbia University
Yang Xie

Graduate Student
Characterization of Matalpha2 degradation by Ubc4/5 dependent ubiquitination pathway

B.S.    Peking University
M.Phil. Yale University
Dimitrios Zattas

Graduate Student
Structure-function of the yeast Doa10 E3 ligase

B.Sc.  University of Thessaly
Florine Dombroski

Senior Administrative Assistant
Emma McCargo

Laboratory Assistant
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