Barbara Mellone, Ph.D. | She/Her
I am a Professor in the Genetics and Genomics Program of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UConn. For my PhD, I studied heterochromatin silencing in S. pombe in Dr. Robin Allshire's lab at the MRC in Edinburgh, Scotland. During my postdoctoral training, I investigated CENP-A deposition in Drosophila in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Karpen at UC Berkeley/LBNL. My teaching interests are in the areas of genetics, epigenetics, and genome stability. 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 |