Former Members
Postdoctoral Trainees
- Asun Solans. 2003-2005.
Current position: Regulatory Affairs Associate at the Biotech company NUFARM (Barcelona, Spain). - Andrea Zambrano. 2003-2006.
Current position: Clinical doctor, a radiologist in Washington DC. - Karine Gouget. 2006-2008.
Current position: Clinical Research Associate II at PAREXEL (Paris, France) - Dr. Xiaoping Zhu. 2009- 2010
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Systems Biomedicine Lab, Houston Methodist Research Institute. - Darryl Horn. 2010-2011
Current position: Associate Professor, DeVry University – South Florida Area, FL - Catherine Trivigno. 2010- 2011
Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at the Scripps Institute (Florida). - Alejandro Ocampo. 2011-2012.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). - Flavia Fontanesi. 2005-2013.
Current position: Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Miami (FL). - Iliana Soto. 2012-2015.
Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Harvard University. Boston (MA). - Myriam Bourens. 2011-2017. Current position:
Graduate Students
- Darryl Horn, Ph.D. 2010. Project: Role of Cmc1p, a new COX assembly factor. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current Position: Associate Professor, DeVry University – South Florida Area, FL
- Alejandro Ocampo, Ph.D. 2011. Project: Mitochondrial function in yeast models of polyglutamine disorders and aging. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
- Ileana C. Soto, Ph.D. 2011. Project: Insights into the roles of Mss51 in the biogenesis of subunit 1 of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Harvard University. Boston (MA).
- Jingjing Liu, Ph.D. 2012. Project: Regulation of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase composition by oxygen and oxidative stress. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Assistant Professor at Soochow University (PRC)Suzhou, China.
- Dasmanthie de Silva, Ph.D. 2015. Project: Role of the DEAD-box helicase Mrh4 in S. cerevisiae mitochondrial ribosome assembly. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at UC Berkeley University (CA).
- Ya-Ting Tu, Ph.D. 2016. Project: Role of the DEAD-box helicase DDX28 in human mitochondrial ribosome assembly. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Stanford University (CA).
- Rui Zeng, Ph.D. 2017. Project: The assembly pathway of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial large ribosome subunit. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Abcam (China).
- Hyun-Jung Kim. 2018. Project: Role of the GTPase MTG1 in human mitochondrial ribosome assembly in health and cardiac disease. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Stanford University (CA).
Undergraduate Students (Honors thesis) with Barrientos:
- Ansel Amaral, Senior Honors thesis project: Mitochondrial Physiology in a yeast model of Parkinson’s disease. Graduated in 2007 with Honors Summa cum laude. Currently M.D./ Ph.D. following his Internal Medicine Residency at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
- Philip Chong, Senior Honors thesis project: Mitochondrial Physiology in yeast models of Huntington’s disease. Graduated in 2010 with Honors Summa cum laude.
- Ryan Werner, Senior Honors thesis project: Investigations into the mitochondrial functions of nuclear-encoded translational factor Mss51. Graduated in 2010 with Honors Summa cum laude.
- Shea Hughes, Senior Honors thesis project: The role of Cox24 in cytochrome c oxidase biogenesis. Graduated in 2012.
- Enrique Garcia. Project: Characterization of human cytochrome c oxidase assembly factors. 2011-2013. Currently following an M.D.-Ph.D. program at Columbia University (NY)
- Danielle Buoquio. Project: Role of Mrh4 in the assembly of yeast mitoribosomes. Graduated in 2014. Currently following a Ph.D. program at UCLA (CA)
- Sarah Poliquin. Project: Role of Mss116 on mitochondrial translation. Graduated in 2015. Currently following a Ph.D. program at Stony Brook University (NY)
- Erin Smith. Project. Assembly of the yeast mitochondrial ribosome large subunit. Graduated in 2017.
Undergraduate Students (Honors thesis) with Fontanesi:
- Suhas Seshadri. Project: Role of the yeast protein Sov1 in mitochondrial gene expression. Graduate in 2019. Currently following an MD program at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.
- Van Minh. Project: Engineering mitochondrial RNA-specific Pumilio homology domains. Graduate in 2019. Currently following an MD program at Nova University.
- Zoe Cosner. Project: Mitochondrial supercomplex assembly in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Graduated in 2017. Currently following an M.D. program at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore)
- Charlotte Gerrity. Project: Effect of cyclodextrin on mitochondrial biogenesis. Graduated in 2017. Currently following an M.D. program at Duke University.
Visiting/Exchange Students:
- Rodrigo de Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. 2004.
- Paula Clemente, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 2010.
- Constanza Moren, Cellex-IDIBAPS, Facultat de Medicina-University of Barcelona, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain. 2010.
- Marco Tigano, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. 2012.
- Teresa Lobo, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain. 2016.
- Viktoriia Bazylianska, Wayne State University, Detroit, IL (USA). 2016
- Manon Delcourt, Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium. 2017.
Former Visiting Professors:
- Dr. Paula Ludovico, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. 2004.
- Dr. Mario Barros, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 2015.