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Members of the Forsburg Lab

Susan Forsburg, PhD.
Professor of Biological Sciences, Program in Molecular & Computational Biology

AB, UC Berkeley (English and Molecular Biology)
PhD, MIT (Biology/Genetics)
postdoc, ICRF-Oxford University (cell cycle)

Awards/Honors:
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow, Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Roche Diagnostics Alice M Evans Award, American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Junior Career Award, Women in Cell Biology, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Stohlman Scholar, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Publications: see publication page
Sarah Sabatinos, PhD
Postdoc
BSc, Univ Guelph (Canada)
PhD, Univ Toronto (Canada)

Lab Publications:
1. Green, M.D., S.A. Sabatinos, and S.L. Forsburg. 2009. Microscopy techniques to examine DNA replication in fission yeast. Methods Mol Biol 521: p. 463-82
2. Sabatinos, S.A. and S.L. Forsburg. 2009. Measuring DNA content by flow cytometry in fission yeast. Methods Mol Biol 521: p. 449-61
3. Sabatinos, S.A. and S.L. Forsburg. 2010. Molecular genetics of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Methods Enzymol 470: p. 759-95
4. Singh, S.K., S. Sabatinos, S. Forsburg, and D. Bastia. 2010. Regulation of replication termination by Reb1 protein-mediated action at a distance. Cell 142(6): p. 868-78. PMC 2945231
Pao-Chen Li
Graduate Student
BS , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
MS, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Lab Publications
1. Li, P.C., L. Chretien, J. Cote, T.J. Kelly, and S.L. Forsburg. 2011. S. pombe replication protein Cdc18 (Cdc6) interacts with Swi6 (HP1) heterochromatin protein: region specific effects and replication timing in the centromere. Cell cycle 10(2): p. 323-36. PMC 3025051
Tara Mastro
Graduate Student
BS: UC Riverside
Amanda Jensen
Graduate Student

BS: UC San Diego
Marc Green
Imaging Specialist
BSc,  Univ Toronto (Canada)
MSc,  Univ Toronto (Canada)


Lab Publications
1. Dolan, W.P., A.H. Le, H. Schmidt, J.P. Yuan, M. Green, and S.L. Forsburg. 2010. Fission yeast Hsk1 (Cdc7) kinase is required after replication initiation for induced mutagenesis and proper response to DNA alkylation damage. Genetics 185(1): p. 39-53. PMC 2870973
2. Green, M.D., S.A. Sabatinos, and S.L. Forsburg. 2009. Microscopy techniques to examine DNA replication in fission yeast. Methods Mol Biol 521: p. 463-82
Ruben Petreaca PhD
Postdoc
BS, UC Riverside
PhD, UC Riverside
Lin Ding
Graduate Student
BSc, Univ Toronto (Canada)
Lab publications:
1. Ding, L. and Forsburg, S.L. (2011) Schizosaccharomyces pombe MCM binding protein (MCM-BP) antagonizes MCM helicase. J. Biol. Chem. in press doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.282541
Nimna Ranatunga
Graduate Student
BA: Concordia College

Wilber Escorcia
Graduate Student
BA, Cal State, Northridge
MS, Cal State, Northridge
Ji-Ping Yuan
Lab Manager
BS, HeBei University, China
MS, Cal State Los Angeles
Lab Publications
1. Dolan, W.P., A.H. Le, H. Schmidt, J.P. Yuan, M. Green, and S.L. Forsburg. 2010. Fission yeast Hsk1 (Cdc7) kinase is required after replication initiation for induced mutagenesis and proper response to DNA alkylation damage. Genetics 185(1): p. 39-53. PMC 2870973

Undergraduates:

Michelle Banh, Carolyn LI, Faizan Malik

Former Members:

Postdocs

Sabine Ottilie PhD,
Sally Pasion PhD, San Francisco State
Hilary Snaith PhD, Univ. Edinburgh
Eliana Gómez PhD, Barofold Inc
Rania Siam PhD, American Univ Cairo Egypt
Julie Bailis PhD, Amgen Pharaceuticals
Douglas Dalle Luche PhD, Invent Biotecnologia, Brazil
Angel Tabancay PhD, USC

Undergraduates

(UCSD)
Lisa Marinelli MD
Rachel Smith MD
Ciani Palencia
Irma Padilla
Vanessa Angeles PhD
Diana Libuda PhD
Andrew Waight PhD
(USC)
Kyung Ji MD
Roy Won
Wilson Ong
Mike Go
Brian Fowler
Peggy Weng
Jesse Tran
Paula Tran MD
Matthew Getz
Elizabeth Crow
Lisa Tran
Belinda Chang
Tarim Song
Ana Hernandez
Cara Bickers

Graduate Students

(UCSD)
Dan Sherman PhD
Debbie Liang PhD
Mike Catlett PhD
Danielle BIshop (Paige) MS
Allison Shearer MS
Nick Herrera PhD*
Beth Rasala PhD*
Dan Pankratz PhD*
William Dolan PhD

(USC)
Rebecca Nugent PhD
Anh-Huy Le PhD
Pao-Chen Li PhD


*part of degree