Our Team

The Dunham Lab is part of the Department of Biochemistry

Christine M. Dunham, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Associated Faculty Member, Department of Chemistry

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Dr. Dunham's School of Medicine faculty profile

B.A., Biochemistry, Barnard College, Columbia University

Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Laboratory of Prof. William G. Scott, thesis entitled "Structure and Function of an RNA enzyme"

American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, Laboratory of Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan

Awards and Honors:

2021 Emory School of Medicine Innovation for Impact Award
2021 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
2019 – 2020 Guest Editor, Nucleic Acids Research
2019 American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Young Investigator
2018 Cozzarelli Prize from National Academy of Sciences for the 2018 Best Biological Sciences paper
2018 – 2023 NIH Permanent Study Section Member, Molecular Genetics A
2018 Emory School of Medicine Researcher Appreciation Day Recognition
2017 American Crystallographic Association Etter Early Career Awardee
2016 - 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases
2011 - 2015 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
2010 - 2015 NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2004 - 2008 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
1999 - 2003 NSF-GAANN Graduate Research Fellowship

Evelyn (Evy) Kimbrough
Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry

2017 Emory Woodruff Fellowship

B.S., Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis and a Physics Minor, University of Utah

Link to Evy’s publications

Jacob Mattingly
Graduate Student
Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program

2019 Margaret and Thomas Lew Graduate Award in Biomedical Sciences in Biochemistry award

B.S., Chemistry and Philosophy, University of Kentucky

Link to Jacob’s publications on Pubmed.

Pooja Srinivas
Graduate Student
Molecular and Systems Pharmacology Program

B.A., Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Link to Pooja's publications in PubMed.

Julia Tanquary
Graduate Student
Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program

NSF GRPF awardee

B.S., Biology and Spanish, Eckerd College

Julia’s publications in Pubmed

Tiffany Trieu
Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry

2019 Chemistry Department Outstanding TA award

B.S., Chemistry - Biochemistry Track, University of Central Florida

Link to Tiffany's publications on ScienceDirect.

Edu Usoro
Graduate Student
Molecular and Systems Pharmacology Program

B.S., Biomolecular Science, University of Michigan

Former Lab Members

Alexandra (Lexie) Kuzmishin Nagy, PhD, NIH FIRST Postdoctoral fellow; Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Earlham College.

Ian Pavelich, PhD, Graduate student; Research Scientist at Tectonic Therapeutic.

Ha An Nguyen, Ph.D., Graduate student; Postdoctoral fellow, Lima Lab, Sloan Kettering.

Joanna Lee, Emory undergraduate fellow.

Dongxue Wang, Ph.D., Research Scientist, 2018-21.

Eric Hoffer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-19; Graduate Student, 2012-17.

Jiayue Sun, Ph.D., Masters graduate student, 2018-20.

John Shanks, Senior Research Specialist, 2017-19.

Cheston Husein, Emory College undergraduate, 2017-18.

Courtney Shin, Emory College undergraduate, 2017-18.

Sam Hong, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-17; Medical student at UT Houston.

Jeff Meisner, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-17; Research scientist at Kaleido.

Sunita Subramanian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2015-16.

Marc Schureck, Ph.D., BCDB Graduate student; 2012-16; Postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Sanjay Desai’s lab at the NIH.

Nina Onuoha, Emory College undergraduate, Emory University, 2013-16; Research technician in Dr. Anice Lowen’s laboratory.

Miki Ruangprasert, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2011-15; Scientific Instructional Designer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Jack Dunkle, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2011-15; Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Dayne West, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2013-15; Research Scientist, Georgia Tech.

Tatsuya Maehigashi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2009-15; Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University.

Stacey Miles, Lead research specialist, 2009-14; Research technician at the Centers for Disease Control.

Crystal Fagan, Ph.D., BCDB grad student 2009-14; Postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Adrian Ferré-D’Amaré’s lab at the NIH.

Steve Kong, Emory College undergraduate, Emory University, 2012-14.

Shein El Cho, undergrad researcher, Agnes Scott College, 2012-13; Graduate student at Stanford University.

Julie Liu, Emory College undergraduate, Emory University, 2012; Ph.D. student at Rice University.

Jhomar Marquez, Research specialist, 2010-12; GE Sale Representative.

Nisha Giridharan, Emory College undergraduate, Emory University, 2012-13; Medical student at the University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Glen Meades, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, 2010-11; Lecturer at Kennesaw State University.
Rachel Erdman, Research specialist, 20082; Patent attorney, Finnegan Associates.