Lab Members

Ph.D Students

Name: Ameet Shetty
E-mail: ashetty@microbio.umass.edu
Position: PhD Student
Hometown: Kalyan (Maharashtra, India)
Nickname: Da Bomb
Hobbies: Sleeping
Project: Role of the bHLH protein, Cbf1p, in regulation of phospholipid biosynthesis

Name: Linan Chen
E-mail: lchen@microbio.umass.edu
Position: Ph.D. Student
Birthplace: Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R.China
Nickname: Maggie
Hobbies: Traveling
Project: Phospholipid metabolism and retrograde regulation

Name: Niketa Jani
E-mail: njani@microbio.umass.edu
Position: PhD student
Hometown: Vadodara (India)
Nickname: Nikki
Hobbies: Cooking, Traveling, Music
Project: Analysis of PIS1 gene expression

Name: Ying He
E-mail: yinghe@microbio.umass.edu
Position: PhD student
Hometown: Hunan (China)
Nickname: The quiet one
Hobbies: Sleeping, Eating
Project: Role of the bHLH protein, Pho4p, in regulation of phospholipid biosynthesis

Masters Students

Name: Naved Munir
E-mail: nmunir@microbio.umass.edu
Position: Masters Student
Hometown: Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Nickname: Spiky Boy
Hobbies: Listening and playing Music, Shooting Pool,
Project: Role of Rpd3p complex in INO2 regulation

Undergraduate Students

Name: Christina A. Paul
E-mail: cpaul@student.umass.edu
Position: Undergraduate Student
Hometown: Sutton, MA
Nickname: Tina
Hobbies: Bicycling, Sewing, Knitting, Going to beaches, Science, Swimming
Project: Role of the Paf complex in regulation of bhospholipid biosynthesis