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

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Chen, Eli Y.-Y

  • BA Music with Distinction & BSc Chemistry (Biochemistry specialization)
    University of Virginia
  • Joined in Sep-2011
  • Interests → Structural studies of Nma SmAPs
  • CV [pdf]

Graduate students

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Kabziński, Tomasz K.

  • MSc, Biotechnology, Technical Univ of Łódź / UVa
  • Joined in Jan-2009
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
  • CV [pdf]
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Lee, Chris T.

  • BA Computer Science & BSc Chemistry (Biochemistry specialization)
    University of Virginia
  • Joined Summer 2011; co-advised with the Columbus lab on computational projects
  • Interests → Computational pipelines for protein/ligand docking
  • CV [pdf]
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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

Collin Conrad

Conrad, Collin

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

Jain, Kanishk

  • 3rd–year UVa undergrad; Studying chemistry/biochemistry
  • Interests → Experimental biochemistry, crystallography, Hfq•••RNA interactions, quorum sensing
  • CV [pdf]

^ Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral associates

  • Dasgupta, Bhaskar [Sep 2008 → May 2009]

Graduate students

  • Cieślik, Marcin [Jan 2009 → Feb 2011] :: MSc, Biotechnology, Jagiellonian Univ / UVa
  • 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

Undergraduates

  • Banton, Daryl [Feb 2008 → Mar 2009] :: BS Chemistry, May 2008
    Currently: Began medical school at UVa in Summer 2009
  • Carey, Miles [Feb → Dec 2008] :: BS Chemistry, May 2009
    Currently: Teaching high school physical science in Richmond, VA
  • Dayal, Arjun [Feb → Sep 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. Pursuing a PhD in the Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology program at Yale University, starting Fall 2011.
  • McCrimmon, Colin M. [Feb 2008 → Jul 2010] :: BS Chemistry & Biology, May 2010
    Now: Pursuing MD/PhD studies at UC Irvine, starting Aug 2010.
  • Nguyen, H. Thien [Jun 2009 → Aug 2010] :: BS Chemistry/Biochemistry, UVa, May 2009
    Currently: Pursuing PhD studies in biochemistry at UCSD, 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 – 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