Barbara Mellone, Ph.D. | She/Her
I am a Professor in the Genetics and Genomics Program of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Before UConn, I was a postdoctoral fellow with Gary Karpen at the LBNL and UC Berkeley. I did my PhD at the Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the laboratory of Robin Allshire. I developed a passion for chromosomes when I was an undergraduate at the University of Milan, Italy. Barbara.Mellone [at] uconn.edu |
Tyler McDermott
PhD student Tyler received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Pace University and his M.S. in Biomedical Forensic Sciences from Boston University. He joined the lab in 2020 and is investigating the functional relationship between retroelements and centromeric proteins. Tyler.McDermott [at] uconn.edu |
Asna Amjad
PhD student Asna received her BS in Bioinformatics from the Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan and her MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of Texas at Dallas. She joined the lab in 2021 and her project uses chromatin profiling and and PRO-seq data to study de novo centromere formation and centromeric transcripts. Asna.Amjad [at] uconn.edu |
Ruiyi Sun
PhD student Ruiyi received her BS in Biology from the University of Michigan and a MS in Biology from NYU. Her interest in centromere biology sparked while studying S. pombe centromeres in Fei Li's lab at NYU. She joined the lab in 2022 and is interested in centromere specification and centromere drive. Ruiyi.Sun [at] uconn.edu |
Laura Leo
Visiting Scholar Laura is a PhD student at the Universita' La Sapienza in Rome, Italy in the laboratory of Dr. Laura Fanti. She spent the summer of 2022 in the lab and we continue to collaborate. Her project investigates the relationship between centromere integrity and centromere transcription. Laura.Leo [at] uconn.edu |