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Antoine van Oijen (P.I.)
After having completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in physics at Leiden University (the Netherlands), Antoine moved to the Boston area in 2001 for a postdoctoral fellowship in Sunney Xie’s lab at Harvard Chemistry. In 2004 he started his lab in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. (e-mail: antoine_van_oijen@hms.harvard.edu) (C.V.)
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Satoshi Habuchi (postdoctoral fellow)
Being trained as an analytical chemist in Japan (Ph.D. Hokkaido University, 2001), Satoshi spent three years at Leuven University (Belgium) as a postdoc. There he studied the photophysics of fluorescent proteins at the single-molecule level. In 2005, he joined our lab to work on the development of a new assay that will allow us to study the spatial and temporal behavior of the various enzymes at the eukaryotic replication fork. (e-mail: satoshi_habuchi@hms.harvard.edu)
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Samir Hamdan (postdoctoral fellow)
Sam obtained his bachelor’s degree from Yarmouk University in Jordan and his master’s from Western Michigan University. In 2002, he earned a PhD in chemistry from Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). His thesis work focused on structural studies of the various components of the E. coli replication fork. In 2003, he started a postdoc in Charles Richardson’s lab at Harvard Medical School, working on the enzymology of the bacteriophage T7 replication machinery. Recently, he also joined our lab where he is expanding his research on the T7 replisome with the use of single-molecule techniques. (e-mail: samir_hamdan@hms.harvard.edu)
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Joe Loparo (postdoctoral fellow)
Joe hails from Cleveland, Ohio, and received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University. He obtained a PhD in chemistry from MIT and joined our lab in 2007 to study DNA replication at the single-molecule level. Joe's proposal to combine the mechanical manipulation of individual DNA molecules with single-molecule fluorescence detection of individual proteins at the replication fork earned him a postdoctoral fellowship from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund. (e-mail: joseph_loparo@hms.harvard.edu)
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Mark Elenko (visiting graduate student)
Mark is a third-year graduate student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program in the lab of Jack Szostak (Massachusetts General Hospital). He works on the application of single-molecule fluorescence imaging techniques to the characterization of the ligand-binding affinities of RNA aptamers. (e-mail: elenko@fas.harvard.edu)
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Candice Etson (graduate student)
Candice obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Hunter College and started in the Harvard Biophysics graduate program in 2003. She joined the lab in 2005 and works on the single-molecule enzymology of the phage T7 helicase. (e-mail: etson@fas.harvard.edu) |
Daniel Floyd (graduate student)
Dan grew up in sunny Las Vegas, obtained his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in biochemistry, and started the Biological and Biomedical Sciences graduate program at Harvard Medical School in 2003. He joined our lab in 2004 to work, in collaboration with Steve Harrison, on the development of a new assay to characterize the mechanisms underlying viral fusion. (e-mail: dfloyd@fas.harvard.edu)
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Nathan Tanner (graduate student)
Nathan received a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, making him the record holder for number of undergraduate degrees in the Van Oijen group. In 2005 he traveled to the Boston area to enroll in the BBS graduate program at Harvard Medical School and in 2006 he joined our group. His extraordinary ability to retain a multitude of important, but nevertheless useless facts has already become legendary in the Longwood area. Nathan is using single-molecule techniques to study prokaryotic DNA replication. (e-mail: nathan_tanner@hms.harvard.edu)
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Anna Kochaniak (graduate student)
Anna recieved a bachelor's degree in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins before joining the illustrious Biophysics graduate program at Harvard. As an undergraduate, she worked on peptide bond formation in translation. She now has climbed the Central Dogma ladder a few rungs and is studying eukaryotic DNA replication using single-molecule techniques in cell-free Xenopus egg extracts. Together with Nathan, she has the largest office in the Van Oijen Lab, easily eclipsing the PI's. (e-mail: akochan@fas.harvard.edu) |
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