Jennifer Cohen
Graduate Student/ Serrine S. Lau Laboratory
Rm. 235, College of Pharmacy (520) 626-9905
cohen@pharmacy.arizona.edu

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Jason Drees
Graduate Student/ Richard Vaillancourt Laboratory
COP 115, (520) 626 5671
drees@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Research Interests: My research focuses on identifying proteins that interact with the MAP3K, MEKK3.  I am especially interested in identifying substrates of MEKK3 and linking this interaction with apoptosis.

My research deals with how proteins within the cell interact with each other to elucidate what is called a signaling pathway.  The cell uses these pathways to perform numerous functions including growth, differentiation, and programmed cell death.  My research focuses on a signaling protein kinase named MEKK3.  The substrates of MEKK3 are phosphorylated by this kinase.  I have been able to identify the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL as a substrate for MEKK3.  This potentially links the MEKK3 protein to an apoptotic signaling pathway.  My current research focuses on determining the physiological significance of this MEKK3/Bcl-xL interaction.

"My interests include playing guitar, motorcycling, snowboarding, exercising, listening to music, and riding my freestyle bmx bike."

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Kylee Eblin
Graduate Student/ A. Jay Gandolfi Laboratory
Rm. 125, College of Pharmacy. (520) 626-7317
eblin@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Research Interests:I am studying the generation of ROS and oxidative stress by low-level arsenicals in a bladder epithelial cell line.  I currently in focusing on both acute and chronic exposure of the bladder cells to environmentally relevant levels of arsenite and its methylated metabolite.
This research is important in that it focuses on levels of arsenicals found in drinking water in the U.S. and Mexico.  Bladder cancer is important to study because it has been strongly correlated with and increased incidence in places where arsenicals are found at elevated levels in the drinking water.

" I enjoy spending my free-time with my husband, Fred.  We enjoy movies, exercising, spending time with our dogs, and getting ready for our baby that is on the way."

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Ashley Fisher
Graduate Student/ Serrine S. Lau Laboratory
Rm. 235, College of Pharmacy (520) 626-9905

afisher@email.arizona.edu

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Matthew Merrell
Graduate Student/ Nathan Cherrington Laboratory
Rm. 425, College of Pharmacy (520) 626-7265

merrell@email.arizona.edu

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