People

Principal Investigator

Dan Fabris

Dr. Dan Fabris
Harold S. Schwenk Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry

Graduate Students

Rumbie Chitongo

Rumbie Chitongo

Ph.D. Student 2024-Present
M.S.: University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa (2018-2020)
BTech & MTech: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa (2011-2017)
Research: Development of biological assays and mass spectrometry techniques to sequence viral mRNAs while exploring various viral replication pathways. Application of bioinformatics tools on mRNAs. 

Michael Addo

Michael Addo

Ph.D. Student 2023-Present
M.S.: East Tennessee State University, USA (2021 - 2023)
B.S.: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (2013 - 2017)
Research: Conformational studies of bistable RNA models using trapped-ion mobility MS techniques

Daniele Rollo

Daniele Rollo
Ph.D. Student 2021-Present
B.S. and M.S.: University of Padova, Padova, Italy, (2015-2020)
Research: Development of mass spectromery and capillary electrophoresis-based techniques for sequencing mRNAs and viral genomes. Computational modeling of RNA structures

Brady Tagge

Brady Tagge

Ph.D. Student 2024-Present
B.S.: Ohio State University (2020-2024)
Research: RNA viruses, genome editing, epitranscriptomics, RNA therapeutics
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Sarah Mutchek

Sarah Mutchek

Ph.D. Student 2022-Present
B.S.: Lehigh University (2018-2022)
Research: Advancing biophysical characterization of nucleic acids and mRNA sequencing via high-resolution and ion mobility MS techniques
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Undergraduate Students

Joshua 2024

Joshua Albarracin
Joined the lab in 2024

Sienna 2024

Sienna Brigance
Joined the lab in 2024

Derek 2023

Derek Bobowick
Joined the lab in 2023

Hein 2024

Hein Htet
Joined the lab in 2024

Alex 2024

Alexander Steinberg
Joined the lab in 2024

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