J. Brooks Crickard PhD (PI)
Brooks received his bachelors degree in Biochemistry from Purdue University in 2007. Before graduate school he spent time studying the biochemistry of ATP dependent chromatin remodeling complexes at Southern Illinois University. He then did his Phd work on RNA Polymerase II transcription elongation complexes at Penn State University. Following his Phd, he chose to train in the area of single molecule optical fluorescence microscopy in the laboratory of Professor Eric Greene at Columbia University. There he studied mechanisms of homologous recombination. During his time at Columbia, Brooks was the Mark Foundation Fellow of the Damon-Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Brooks’ future goals are to understand how human homologous recombination enzymes function to promote DNA repair.
Graduate Students
Jingyi Hu
Jingyi received her bachelor’s degree from Fudan University in 2020. Then she went to a second-hand bookstore and worked as an auditor of pirated books for three months. After that, she had remote enrollment at Cornell and took a semester’s online courses at home. In the lab, she will focus on the role of hDmc1 in meiosis as well as the function of Rdh54.
Mitch Woodhouse (Co-mentored with Michelle Wang)
David Moraga
David obtained his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at SUNY Binghamton in 2021. Upon graduating he moved to Cornell for his graduate studies. In the Crickard lab he focuses on the interaction between motor proteins and a type 1A topoisomerases in Homologous recombination.
Peter Huang
Sage Bakhati (Co-Advised with Eric Alani)
Undergraduates
Lauren Peysakhova
Issa Sommers
Amanda Xu
Rafael Mendez
Former Crickard Lab members
Staff
Jennifer Dau 2021-2023 (Currently a Medical Student at UIC)
Postdocs
Renna Costa 2021-2024 (Research Scientist in Brazil)
Bryan Ferlez 2021-2024 (Assistant Professor Ithaca College)
Undergraduates
Alex Mandadjiev ( Currently interviewing for Med School)
Krishay Sridalla (Currently interviewing for Med School)
Margaret Keymakh (Currently in med school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Gavin Calabretta (Cowen investment banking)
Adam Benmoussa-Summer REU (Currently an Undergraduate at the University of Iowa)
Audrey Kohlman (Currently doing computer science things)
Jessica Scheer (Graduate School at Penn State)