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Asmita Pawar
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry
BioAsmita Pawar (Ph.D.) is a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Professor James Spudich (Department of Biochemistry) and Dr. Masataka Kawana (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine) at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Asmita received her M.Sc. in Microbiology from University of Pune in 2006, and Ph.D. in Life Sciences from CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India in 2021. After M.Sc., she served as a lecturer in Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology at Gokhale Education Society’s colleges at Nashik, India (affiliated to the University of Pune) and taught various courses to B.Sc. and M.Sc. students. In 2011, she co-founded ‘Centre for Life Sciences’ institute in Nashik, and mentored BS-MS students for advanced studies and teaching careers until 2013.
During her Ph.D., she worked in the lab of Dr. Yogendra Sharma and investigated the Ca2+-binding features of novel microbial proteins with diverse domain architectures like βγ-crystallins, bacterial immunoglobulin-like (Big) domains, and EF-hand domains. She next joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, as a postdoctoral fellow and studied the chaperone properties of human Secretagogin (a Ca2+-sensor protein) until June 2023.
Currently, as a postdoctoral trainee with Dr. Kawana, she is characterizing recombinant human α-cardiac myosin and comparing a few of it's in vitro biochemical properties with recombinant β-cardiac myosins. She is further investigating the molecular effects of a few atrial fibrillation-associated mutations in α-cardiac myosin. Parallelly, she is optimizing experiments to evaluate the binding kinetics of cardiac myosins and Myosin-binding Protein-C (MyBP-C) interactions. -
Suzanne Pfeffer
Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe major focus of our research is to understand the molecular basis of inherited Parkinson's Disease (PD). We focus on the LRRK2 kinase that is inappropriately activated in PD and how it phosphorylates Rab GTPases, blocking the formation of primary cilia in specific regions of the brain. The absence of primary cilia renders cells unable to carry out Hedgehog signaling that is critical for neuroprotective pathways that sustain dopamine neurons.
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Rajat Rohatgi
Professor of Biochemistry and of Medicine (Oncology)
Current Research and Scholarly Intereststhe overall goal of my laboratory is to uncover new regulatory mechanisms in signaling systems, to understand how these mechanisms are damaged in disease states, and to devise new strategies to repair their function.
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Florentine Rutaganira
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Developmental Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe use chemical tools to decipher the roles of key signaling networks in choanoflagellates, single-celled organisms that are the closest living relatives of animals. Choanoflagellates produce molecular signals essential for intercellular communication in animals and the presence of these molecules in choanoflagellates suggests that signaling components needed to communicate between cells is evolutionarily ancient. We aim to uncover new understanding of animal development, physiology and disease.
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Julia Salzman
Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biology
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsstatistical computational biology focusing on splicing, cancer and microbes
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Jaime B Seltzer
Affiliate, Biochemistry - Genome Center
BioJaime Seltzer is a researcher with Stanford Medicine working with the Synder Lab and at the Stanford Genome Technology Center.
Seltzer is also the Scientific Director at #MEAction for the infection-associated chronic illnesses ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) and Long COVID.
She is responsible for project management for clinical and research-associated projects and fostering communication between research scientists, clinicians, and people with infection-associated chronic illness. Ongoing projects: Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine-funded work to transform ME/CFS treatment and diagnosis at Mayo Clinic Rochester; Symptom Cluster Characterization in Complex Chronic Disease; multiple ongoing medical education initiatives. Leading institutional outreach for MEAction's Teach ME, Treat ME campaign.
