Where are they now?
Former research students, technicians, fellows, and lab assistants in the Cheney Lab (total = 72):

Senior experimental theses (total = 34):

Dan Holtzman

Daniel Holtzman (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’06
Spring ’04 (for credit), Summer ’04 (NSF grant supplement), Fall ’04 (for credit) Summer ’05 (Beckman Scholar).
Senior thesis: “Quantitating the GDI-GInt3 interaction in Matchmaker III yeast two hybrid system”
Currently MD student, UC San Francisco.

Erin Kahle (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’06
Senior thesis: “Pull-down of GDI and Gint3”
Currently research technician, National Institutes of Health.

Anne Kirk (Neuroscience) Pomona ’06
Summer 05 (NSF grant)
Senior thesis: “Commissureless phenotype of GDI mutants”
Currently research technician, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

David Levine (Biology) Pomona ’06
Senior thesis: “Rab26 as a GDI interactor”
Currently high school teacher, Teach for America, Chicago.

Amy Rapp

Amy Rapp (Biology) Pomona ’06
Summer 04 (SURP), Summer 05.
Senior thesis: “Commissureless as a GDI interactor”

Michelle Keese

Michelle Keese (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’05
Summer ’03 (Irvine-SURP), Fall ’03 (NSF grant), Summer ’04 (Merck), Summer ’05 (SURP)
Project and Senior thesis: “Rab26 as a GDI interactor”
Currently MD student, University of Chicago.

Alexis Moore

Alexis Moore (Biology) Pomona ’05
Summer ’04 (SURP)
Project and Senior thesis: “Identyifying the 43C GDI interactor”
Research technician, Cheney Lab, 2005-2006.

Naveen Sangji

Naveen Sangji (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’05
Fall ’02 (NSF grant), Spring ’03 (NSF grant), Summer ’03 (SURP-Irvine). Project: Finding the 49F GDI interactor. Summer ’04 (NSF grant)
Senior thesis: “GST-pull down studies of Gint3, a GDI interactor”
Currently MD student, Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard-MIT.

Lily Holmes

Lily Holmes (Biology) Pomona ’04
Senior thesis: “The female sterile phenotype of the 43C GDI interactor”
Currently MD student, University of Pennsylvania.

Ryan Takeshita

Ryan Takeshita (Biology) Pomona ’04.
Spring ’03 (REU)
Project and Senior thesis: “Sequence analysis of GDI alleles”
Currently PhD student in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Shannon Wolff

Shannon Wolff (Neuroscience) Pomona ’04
Summer ’02 (SURP), Summer ’03 (NSF grant). Project: Mapping AL289.
Senior thesis: “Commissureless as a GDI interactor”
Currently MD student, University of Nevada, Reno.

Steve Wylie

Steve Wylie (Molecular Biology), Pomona ’04
Summer ’02 (SURP), Fall ’03 (REU), Summer ’03. Project: GST-GDI pull-down.
Senior thesis: “Using a GST-pull down assay to discover GDi interactors and expression of Rab-RP1 in a yeast expression system”
Currently PhD student in Biology, Johns Hopkins University.

Mika Izutsu (Biology) Pomona ’03
Senior thesis: “Female sterile phenotype of 43C interactor”
Currently MD student, University of Hawaii.

Janetta Iwanicki (Biology) Pomona ’03, Beckman Fellow
Senior thesis: “Female sterile phenotype of 35D GDI interactor”
Currently MD student, UC San Francisco.

Laurence Meloty-Kapella (Biology) Pomona ’03
Senior thesis: “Rab26 as a candidate GDI interactor in 78A”
MS student in Biology, San Francisco State University; currently PhD student in Molecular Biology, UCLA.

Sarom Pyun (Biology) Pomona ’03
Senior thesis: “Mapping the spa2 GDI interactor”
Teaching high school with TeachAmerica.

Maria Christenson (Biology) Pomona ’02
Senior thesis: “Mapping of AL289”
Did full-time research University of Southern California Medical School for 1.5 years; MPH, University of Southern California, 2005. Currently PharmD student, UC San Francisco.

Joe Lee (Biology) Pomona ’02
Senior thesis: “Tbox genes in mice”
Currently MD student, University of Pennsylvania.

Ryan Skophammer (Biology) Pomona ’02
Senior thesis: “Isolation of gene trap mutants that interact with GDI”
Currently PhD student in Molecular Biology, UCLA, with Jim Lake.

Sornya Ponrartana (Biology) Pomona ’01
Senior thesis: “EMS mutagenic screen for pupal lethals”
Did full-time research at USC med school for 1 year. Currently MD student, University of Southern California.

John Cupp (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’00
Senior thesis: “Screening for quartet cDNAs”
MD, UC San Francisco, 2004.

Roozbeh Houshyar (Biology) Pomona ’00
Senior thesis: “Secretion in GDI mutants”
Full-time research, Yale Medical School, 2000-2001; Full-time research, UCLA Medical School, 2001-2002. Currently MD student, Ross University.

Dennis Kang (Biology) Pomona ’00
Senior thesis: “Fertilization and nanos mRNA localization”
MS in Physical Therapy, Columbia University; currently in private practice.

Kenji Morimoto (Biology) Pomona ’00
Senior thesis: “GDI affinity chromatography and GDI interacting proteins”
MD, Cornell Medical School, 2004.

Adriana Ramirez (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’00
Senior thesis: “Mutagenic screen for secretion mutants”
Elementary school teacher, Los Angeles, 2000-2001. Currently MD student, UCLA.

Brian Richardson (Biology) Pomona ’00
Senior thesis: “Hsp 83 and oogenesis”
Research technician in a yeast lab in Florence, Italy, 2000-2001; research technician in the Cheney Lab 2001-2002. Currently PhD student in Developmental Biology, Cornell University Medical School, with Mary Baylies.

Stacy Alvares (Biology) Pomona ’99
Senior thesis: “Yeast two-hybrid system to identify GDI interacting proteins”
Full-time research in a Drosophila lab at Harvard Medical School, 1999-2001. Currently PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Washington.

Annie Lee (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’99
Senior thesis: “quartet cDNA”
Currently Cell and Molecular Biology PhD student, UC Berkeley, with Barbara Meyer.

Jackie Flores Rivera (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’99
Senior thesis: “nanos mRNA and quartet ”
Currently Molecular Biology PhD student, University of Southern California .

Christina Tsou (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’99
Senior thesis: “rab interactions of GDI mutants”
MPH, Harvard, 2001. Currently law student, UC Berkeley.

Colin Havenar-Daughton (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’99
Senior thesis: “Proteins that bind nanos mRNA”
Currently full-time researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.

Olivia Doyle (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’98
Senior thesis: “P element-mediated deletions in the quartet genomic region”
PhD, Johns Hopkins, 2002, with Joe Gall.

Eric Kaufman (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’98
Senior thesis: “Immunoaffinity chromatographic isolation of GDI interacting proteins”
MD, University of Chicago.

Miri Vanhoven (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’98
Senior thesis: “Constructing GDI mutants in an expression vector”
Currently NSF pre-doctoral fellow in Cell and Molecular Biology, UC San Francisco, with C Bargmann.

Other Cheney Lab research students (total = 24):

Palak Amin (undeclared) Pomona ’08
Spring ’05 (NSF grant). Project: Cloning AK307 into pLexA.

Jonathan Lee (undeclared) Pomona ’07
Summer ’05 (NSF grant). Project: 35D GDI interactor.

Eric Otieno (undeclared) Pomona ’07
Spring ’05 (NSF grant). Project: Cloning Gint3 into pUASp.

Shalini Lai (Neuroscience) Pomona ’06
Fall ’03. Project: Oenocyte defect in 35D interactor.

Paul Robustelli

Paul Robustelli (Chemistry) Pomona ’06
Fall ’03, Spring ’04 (for credit). Project: Sequencing GDI alleles and making a clone for a GDI that does not bind to Rab.

Jonder Ho (Sociology) Pomona ’05
Fall ’02 (NSF grant). Project: Complementation of new GDI alleles.

Jesse Mays (English) Pomona ’05
Summer ’03 (Irvine Faculty Fellowship). Project: Complementation study of new GDI alleles.
Currently Hollywood scriptwriter.

Megha Shah (English) Pomona ’04
Fall ’02 (NSF grant), Summer ’03 (Irvine Faculty Fellowship). Project: Female sterile phenotype of 49F interactor.
Currently MD student, University of Chicago.

Octav Constantinescu (Computer Science) Pomona ’02
Research, Fall ’00 (NSF grant). Project: Larval serum protein secretion in GDI mutants.
Currently, MD student, UCLA.

Randy Gastwirt (Biology) Pomona ’02
Research, summer ’01 (HHMI). Project: Proteins that bind to GDI.
Currently, PhD student in pharmacology, UC San Diego.

Sumire Kawai (Biology) Pomona ’02
Research for two summers and one academic year (SURP and NSF grant). Project: Deficiency screen for GDI interacting genes
Currently MD student, UC San Diego.

Sara Turner (Biology) Pomona ’01
Research, Fall ’00 (REU). Project: Glue secretion in GDI mutants.
Currently PhD student in Biology, Purdue University

Tom Vasquez (Chem) Pomona ’02
Summer ’99 (CAMP). Project: Confirming FRT GDI null mutant constructs.
MS in Organic Chemistry, UC Irvine, 2004; Currently Laboratory Coordinator, Pomona College Chemistry Department.

Terri Abe (Politics) Pomona ’01
Research for two summers and two academic years (REU and NSF grant). Project: Screen for dominant GDI enhancers
Currently MD student, University of Southern California.

Song Ahn (Biology) Pomona ’01
Research Fall ’98 (volunteer). Project: Constructing stocks for mutagenic screens.

Selena Cataldo (Biology) Pomona ’01
Summer ’99 (REU). Project: quartet cDNAs.
Currently, MD student, Northwestern University.

Frances Chiu (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’01
Research Fall ’98 (volunteer). Project: Constructing stocks for mutagenic screen
Currently MD student, UCLA.

April Kinkade (Biology) Pomona ’01
Research Fall ’98 (volunteer). Project: Constructing stocks for mutagenic screens.
Currently PhD student in Biology, UC San Diego.

Caroline Kuo (English) Pomona ’01
Research Fall ’98 (volunteer). Project: Constructing stocks for mutagenic screens
Currently MD student, University of Southern California.

Vinoy Prasad (Biology) Johns Hopkins ’01
Summer ’98 (REU). Project: Site-directed mutagenesis to put GDI mutants into an expression vector.
Applying to medical school 2002-2003.

Dennis Wu (Biology) Pomona ’01
Research Fall ’98 (volunteer). Project: Constructing stocks for mutagenic screens.

Devin Johnsen (Biology) Pomona’00
Research student for 3 academic years and 3 summers (SURP and NSF grant). Project: Mapping AL289, a new female sterile mutant.
MS in Animal Science, Cal Poly Pomona, 2003. Currently DVM student, UC Davis.

Mindy Miner (Biology) Pomona ’00
Research for Fall 98 (REU). Project: Sequencing new open reading frames in quartet mutants.
Currently PhD student in Epidemiology, University of Washington.

Alice Chen (Biology) Pomona ’98
Fall ’97 (REU). Project: Mapping AL289
PhD in Biology, Johns Hopkins University, with CM Fan; Weintraub prize recipient. Currently Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard, with Doug Melton

Research technicians and fellows in the Cheney Lab (total = 5):

Kat Ayres

Katharine Ayres , Pomona ’04
Mellon Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Cheney Lab, June 2004 to June 2005.
Currently PhD student in Biology, University of Washington.

Alex Chen

Alex Chen , UCLA ’02
Research technician October 2003 to May 2004.
Currently MEd student in Chemistry at UC Irvine, with the goal of teaching high school chemistry.

Brian Richardson , Pomona ’00
Research technician 2001-2002, (also listed above under senior thesis students)
Currently PhD student in Developmental Biology, Cornell University School of Medicine, with Mary Baylies.

Odicie Fielder , UCLA ’00
Research technician, 2000-2001
Currently MD student, Yale Medical School.

Esteban Fernandez , HMC ’99
Research technician 1999-2000
Currently, PhD student in Molecular Biology, UCLA, with G Payne.

Lab Assistants (total = 9):

Ghyryn Loveness (Engineering) Pomona ’07

Anita Cheng

Anita Cheng (Biology) Pomona ’06

Amy Li (undec) Pomona ’06

Andrew Nuibe (Biology) Pomona ’04
Currently MD student, Creighton University

Anna Bell-Hibbs (Biology) Pomona ’03
Currently MD student, Hahnemann University.

Sharon Park (Biology) Pomona ’03

Jessica Brown (Molecular Biology) Pomona ’02
Currently PhD student, MIT.

Kristen Sauby (Biology), Pomona ’02
MS student in Environmental Studies, Humboldt State University

Jeff Herzog (Biology) Pomona ’00