Elefant Lab
Akanksha Bhatnagar
Ph.D. Candidate (5th Year)
Research Title: Role of Tip60 HAT Chromodomain in RNA targeting and regulation
Email – ab4267@drexel.edu
Ellen Armour
Ph.D. Candidate (5th Year)
Research Title: Tip60 Nuclear Translocation is Essential for the Regulation of Activity Dependent Gene Control
Email – ea554@drexel.edu
Christina Thomas
Ph.D. Student (2nd Year)
Research Title: Tip60 Binds to RNA Through a Novel Chromodomain Sequence
Email – cmt397@drexel.edu
Elefant Lab Alumni
Mariah Beaver
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Disruption of Epigenetic enzymes Tip60 and HDAC2 mechanisms in the neurodegerative Drosophila brain
Email – mb3585@drexel.edu
Haolin Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Title: Histone acetyltransferase Tip60 mediated rescue in amyloid-β-induced Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology
Email – hz354@drexel.edu
Bhanu Karisetty
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Bioinformatics in Alzheimer’s disease.
Email – bhanuchandra.karisetty@drexel.edu
Ashley Karnay
Pursuing her PhD at UPenn
Priya Panikker
Ph.D. 2014-2019
Research Specialist, Neurodevelopmental Diseases Gene Therapy Program & Orphan Disease Center, Perelman School of Medicine The University of Pennsylvania
Renee Snook
Cell Therapy Specialist at Kite, A Gilead Company
Xianmin Zhu
Ph.D. 2003-2007
Postdoctoral Research Fellow NIH/NHLBI
Current Position:
Associate Principle Investigator, Tongji University
Viju Ramakrishan
M.S. 2004-2006
Research Associate, Merck Pharmaceuticals Co.
Madhusmitta Datta
M.S. 2005-2007
Research Associate, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Neetu Singh
Ph.D. 2004-2009
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Meridith Toth
Ph.D. 2006-2011
Postdoctoral Fellow; University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Jessica Sarthi
Ph.D. 2008-2013
Postdoctoral Fellow; University of Calgary
Sheila Pirooznia
Ph.D. 2009-2013
Postdoctoral Fellow; John Hopkins University
Ashley Johnson
Ph.D. 2009-2014
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland Medical School
Rona Wilf
M.S. 2012-2014
Research Associate; Integral Molecular Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA
Songjun Xu
Ph.D. 2010-2015
Postdoctoral Fellow; Epigenetics Program, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Elefant Lab @ Drexel University 