Mura Lab

at the University of Virginia

Current Personnel

Director

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Cameron Mura

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia [2008 → present]
    Other affiliations: Structural & Computational Biology and Biophysics, UVa Health Sciences;
    UVa Cancer Research Center; Biotechnology Training Program; Beckman Scholars mentor
  • Postdoctoral studies, UC San Diego
    Advisor: Prof. J. Andrew McCammon
    Funding: Sloan/DOE Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology
  • PhD Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UCLA
    Advisor: Prof. David Eisenberg
    Funding: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • BS Chemistry, with Highest Honors, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Advisor: Prof. Loren Dean Williams
    Funding: NSF-REU programs at Columbia Univ [1994], UCLA [1995]
  • CV | Résumé [pdf]

Research staff, Postdoctoral associates

Graduate students

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Patterson, Jennifer L.

  • BS Chemistry & BS Biology, Shippensburg University
  • Joined in Jan-2010
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
  • CV [doc]
Peter Randolph

Randolph, Peter S.

  • BS Chemistry & BA Biology, University of Virginia
  • Joined in Jan-2010
  • Interests → The Universe
  • CV [docx]

Undergraduate students

Kanishk Jain

Jain, Kanishk

  • Rising 4th–year UVa undergrad; Studying chemistry/biochemistry
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
  • CV [pdf]
Ellen Schleckman

Schleckman, Ellen

  • Rising 2nd–year UVa undergrad
  • Interests → Getting started with Biochem research
  • CV [pdf]

^ Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral–level associates, Research staff

  • Dasgupta, Bhaskar [postdoc Sep 2008 → May 2009] :: PhD Biochemistry, Jadavpur Univ / Bose Institute (Dec 2007)

Graduate–level

  • Cieślik, Marcin [Jan 2009 → Jan 2011] :: MSc Biotechnology, Jagiellonian Univ / UVa
  • Kabziński, Tomasz [Jan 2009 → Jan 2012] :: MSc Biochemistry, UVa (May 2012)
  • Lee, Chris [Sep 2011 → May 2012] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem & BA Computer Science, UVA (May 2011); MSc Biochemistry, UVA (May 2012)
    Currently: Starting PhD studies in biochemistry and computational biology at UCSD in Fall 2012.
  • Panecka, Joanna [Jun → Aug 2009] :: MSc, Physics, Univ of Warsaw; Visited from the Trylska group's Biomolecular Machines Laboratory at ICM, Univ Warsaw (see Collaborators), where she is currently pursuing PhD studies in biophysics.

Undergraduate–level

  • Banton, Daryl [Feb 2008 → Mar 2009] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem, May 2008
    Currently: Began medical school at UVa in Summer 2009
  • Carey, Miles [Feb → Dec 2008] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem, May 2009
    Currently: Teaching high school physical sciences in Richmond, VA and then Arlington, VA public schools.
  • Dayal, Arjun [Feb → Sep 2008] :: Graduated from UVa in May 2011
  • Sood, Ravi [Feb → Oct 2008] :: BS Chemistry, May 2008
    Currently: Began a PhD program in computational biology at RPI in Fall 2009
  • McCrimmon, Colin M. [Feb 2008 → Jul 2010] :: BS Chemistry & BS Biology with Highest Distinction, May 2010; Distinguished Major Thesis
    Currently: Pursuing MD/PhD studies at UC Irvine, starting Aug 2010.
  • Ebmeier, Sarah [Feb → May 2009] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem, May 2009
    Currently: Completed a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award at NIH in Summer 2009. Now pursuing a PhD in the Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology program at Yale University, starting Fall 2011.
  • Nguyen, H. Thien [Jun 2009 → Aug 2010] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem, UVa, May 2009
    Currently: Pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry at UCSD, starting Aug 2010.
  • Conrad, Collin [Sep 2010 → May 2012] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem with High Distinction, May 2012; Distinguished Major Thesis
    Currently: Preparing for medical school studies.
  • Chen, Eli Y.-Y [Sep 2011 → May 2012] :: BS Chemistry/Biochem & BA Music with Distinction, UVa (May 2011)
    Currently: Starting grad school in Music at Northwestern Univ in Fall 2012.

^ Collaborators & Colleagues

Collaborations

Biomolecular Machines Laboratory – Trylska research group,
at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw

Lowe Lab – Archaeal RNA metabolism, non-coding RNAs, extremophiles
at the Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz

Colleagues

Other UVa groups working in areas of structural or computational biology, RNA, biochemistry, molecular biophysics, etc.:

People beyond UVa:

  • Richard Brennan → Nucleic acid structure; protein···nucleic acid recognition; Hfq
    Nick Hud → Nucleic acid structure, dynamics, biophysics; origin of life
    Roger Wartell → Nucleic acid structure, dynamics, biophysics; Hfq
    Loren Williams → Nucleic acid structure/dynamics; DNA electrostatics; ribosome as a window into evolution
  • Andy McCammon [postdoc advisor] → MD simulations; computational and molecular biophysics