People

Rules for joining the Golden Hands Club:

Golden Hands:  Having published over 3 first-author papers; 
                         Unanimously nominated by the lab;
                         or shamelessly self-proclaimed as in the case of Dr. Ke.

Silver Hands:    Having published over 2 first-author papers.

Blue Hands:      Having published at least one paper.

Green Hands:    All others.

 
Ailong Ke, P.I. Head of the Golden hands Club
Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
B.S. in Biology.
University of Science and Technology of china
 
 
 
Ray Lu, 4th yr Graduate Student
B.A. Colgate Univerity

Publications since joining our lab:

Lu C, Smith AM, Fuchs RT, Ding F, Rajashankar K, Henkin TM, Ke A. Crystal structures of the SAM-III/SMK riboswitch reveal the SAM-dependent translation inhibition mechanism. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 2008 May;15:1076-10


 
Matthew Bratkowski, 3rd yr Graduate Student
B.S. in Biology &
B.S. in Medicinal Chemistry.
University of Missouri, Columbia

Publications since joining our lab:

Wang HW, Wang J, Ding F, Callahan K, Bratkowski MA, Butler JS, Nogales E, Ke A. Architecture of the yeast Rrp44 exosome complex suggests routes of RNA recruitment for 3' end processing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Oct 23;104:16844-16849.

 
Fran Ding, Lab Manager
 Billy Wang, Senior Undergraduate, Cornell University

Anirban Chowdhury, Senior Undergraduate, Cornell University

Andrew Chen,
 Junior Undergraduate, Cornell University