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Stone Research Group Members - 2011

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Joseph Parks - Graduate Student

 

B.S. University of Portland

Graduate Student, University of California Santa Cruz


Phone: 831-459-1380

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Research Interests: Single-molecule Biophysics; specifically Hammerhead ribozyme catalysis,telomere DNA Structure and Function, Instrument and Software Development, Biological Application of Instrumentation


 

Salina Long - Graduate Student

 

B.S. University of California Berkeley

Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Santa Cruz

 

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Research Interests: Salina spent two years in LBNL, where she used synchrotron X-ray and EPR to study the structure of Mn4Ca complex in photosystem II with Prof. Kenneth Sauer and Dr. Vittal Yachandra. Her current research interests include utilizing smFRET and magnetic tweezers to study telomere G-quardruplex formation. She is also interested in how the telomere-associated proteins remodel telomere DNA structure.

 

 

Vincent Masto - Undergraduate Student

 

B.S. Candidate, University of California Santa Cruz


Phone: 831-459-5056

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Research Interests: Vincent is an undergraduate researcher majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  In the lab, he is involved in protein expression and purification, plasmid purification and buffer preparation.

Martin Hengesbach - Postdoctoral Fellow

 

2004: B.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg

2009: PhD in biology (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Heidelberg


Phone: 831-459-5056

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Research interest:
I am interested in the structural and dynamic properties of biologically important RNAs. In my current project, I am using single-molecule FRET to gain new insights on the human telomerase RNA component.

 

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Michael Stone - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry

 

BA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Ph.D. UC Berkeley


Phone: 831-459-2845

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Research Interests: Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology; Structure, function, and assembly of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), optical/magnetic trapping, sub-diffraction optical imaging of telomeres and the nucleus.

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Clive R. Bagshaw - Visiting Researcher


(Emeritus Professor of Physical Biochemistry, University of Leicester, UK)


B.Sc University of Birmingham, U.K.

Ph.D University of Bristol, U.K.


Phone: 831-459-1380

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Research Interests: Contractile systems based on actomyosin, Enzyme kinetics, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Single molecule detection using TIRF microscopy.


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Michael Anderson - Graduate Student


B.S. University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D. Candidate,  University of California at Santa Cruz

 

 

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Representing the Scott Lab, Michael leads a collaboration with the Stone lab to study the structure and function of the Hammerhead ribozyme using established biochemical and emerging single molecule techniques.  The Hammerhead is a self-cleaving RNA enzyme composed of three helices intersecting in a conserved catalytic core, and is often called the 'serine protease' of RNA enzymes because it is well studied and serves as a prototype for understanding ribozyme catalysis.

Josiah Herzog - Undergraduate Student

 

B.S. Candidate UC Santa Cruz


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Research Interest: The structure and function of DNA, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Telomerase enzyme and its involvement in cancer.


Anastassia Gomez - Undergraduate Student

 

B.S. Candidate UC Santa Cruz


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Research interests: I am interested in the use of biochemical and biophysical techniques to study the structure and dynamics of telomerase RNA.


 

John Loper - Graduate Student

 

B.S. University of California Berkeley

Ph.D. Student, University of California Santa Cruz

 

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Research Interests: John is the only crystallographer in the lab and enjoys making his crystals.

 

 


Michael D. Stone

Assistant Professor



John Loper

Graduate Student

Benjamen Akiyama

Graduate Student


Salina Long

Graduate Student

 



Clive R. Bagshaw

Visiting Researcher

 



Joseph Parks

Graduate Student

 



Michael Anderson

Graduate Student

 

Vincent Masto

Undergraduate Student

 

Martin Hengesbach

Postdoctoral Fellow

 



Josiah Herzog

Undergraduate Student

 

Anastassia Gomez

Undergraduate Student