Mura Lab

at the University of Virginia

Current Members (Director, Staff, Grad, Undergrad) | Lab Alumni | Collaborators & other Colleagues

Current Personnel

Director

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Cameron Mura

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia
    Other affiliations: Structural & Computational Biology and Biophysics, UVa Health Sciences;
    UVa Cancer Research Center
  • Postdoctoral studies, UCSD
    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 D. Williams
    Funding: NSF-REU programs at Columbia Univ [1994], UCLA [1995]

Research staff

Graduate students

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Cieślik, Marcin

  • MSc, Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University
  • Interests → Structural bioinformatics, computational biology, evolution of the Sm family
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Kabziński, Tomasz K.

  • MSc, Biotechnology, Technical University of Łódź
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
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Patterson, Jennifer

  • BS Chemistry and BS Biology, Shippensburg University
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
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Randolph, Peter S.

  • BS Chemistry (Biochemistry), University of Virginia
  • Interests → The Universe

Undergraduate students

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Conrad, Collin

  • 2nd–year UVa undergrad; Studying chemistry/biochemistry
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
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Jain, Kanishk

  • 2nd–year UVa undergrad; Studying chemistry/biochemistry
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing

Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral associates, Research staff

  • Dasgupta, Bhaskar [Sep 2008 → May 2009]
  • Nguyen, H. Thien [Jun 2009 → Jul 2010] :: BS Chemistry/Biochemistry, UVa, May 2009
    Currently: Pursuing PhD studies in biochemistry at the Univ of California, San Diego, starting Aug 2010.

Graduate students

  • Panecka, Joanna [Jun → Aug 2009] :: MSc, Physics, Univ of Warsaw; Visited from the Trylska group at ICM, Univ Warsaw (see Collaborators), where she is currently pursuing PhD studies in biophysics

Undergraduates

  • Banton, Daryl [Feb 2008 → Feb 2009] :: BS Chemistry, May 2008
    Currently: Began medical school at UVa in Summer 2009
  • Carey, Miles [Feb → Sep 2008] :: BS Chemistry, May 2009
    Currently: Teaching high school physical science in Richmond, VA
  • Dayal, Arjun [Feb → Aug 2008] :: Currently a 4th–year undergrad at UVa
  • Ebmeier, Sarah [Feb → May 2009] :: BS Chemistry, May 2009
    Currently: Began a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award at NIH in Summer 2009
  • McCrimmon, Colin M. [Feb 2008 → Jul 2010] :: BS Chemistry & Biology, May 2010
    Now: Pursuing MD/PhD studies at the Univ of California, Irvine, starting Aug 2010.
  • Sood, Ravi [Feb → Oct 2008] :: BS Chemistry, May 2008
    Currently: Began a PhD program in computational biology at RPI in Fall 2009

Collaborators & Colleagues

Collaborations

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

Lowe Lab – Non-coding RNAs and Extremophile Biology
at the Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz

Colleagues

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

  • Bryant Group → magnetic resonance spectroscopy, relaxation, biomolecular hydration
  • Cafiso Lab → EPR, membrane proteins [BtuB, Ton, SNARE], osmolytes
  • Columbus Lab → EPR, NMR, membrane proteins, host receptors ⇔ bacterial pathogen proteins
  • Ed Egelman → EM / CryoEM, single-particle analysis / image reconstruction, Rad51 ssDNA-binding proteins, filaments
  • Computational biologists / Bioinformaticians:
    Bill Pearson
  • X-ray crystallographers:
    Zygmunt Derewenda, Salem Faham, Bob Kretsinger, Wladek Minor, Michael Wiener, Mark Yeager, Jochen Zimmer
  • Biochemists or microbiologists:
    Ann Beyer, Alison Criss, Anindya Dutta, Joanna Goldberg