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Murn Lab
For Creative Research of RNA Biology
Jernej Murn, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of California, Riverside
E-mail: jernej.murn@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4267
Jernej obtained a BSc in Chemistry/Pharmacology from the University of Ljubljana in 2001, and PhD in 2006 for his work on transcriptional regulation and genetic mechanisms of programmed cell death with Xavier Gidrol at the CEA Laboratory for Functional Genomics in Évry, France, and Irena Mlinarič-Raščan at the University of Ljubljana. After a short postdoc in cancer biology at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, he continued his training with Yang Shi at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he focused on RNA-binding proteins and epigenetics of nerve cells in development. In July 2017, he moved to the University of California, Riverside, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry. He is an investigator at the Center for RNA biology and Medicine and a faculty of the Stem Cell Center and the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology.
Yuan Liu, Ph.D.
Project Scientist
E-mail: yuanl@ucr.edu
B.S., School of Life Sciences, Shandong university (2011)
Ph.D., School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (2017)
Postdoc Fellow, University of Cincinnati (2018); Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2018-2019)
Shiyang He, Ph.D.,
Postdoc
E-mail: she050@ucr.edu
B.S., Biological Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
M.S., Genetics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ph.D., Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Riverside
Megha Saha
Junior Specialist
E-mail: megha.saha@ucr.edu
B.S., Zoology, Bankura Christian College, India.
M.S., Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Kawon (Anzie) Pyo
Undergraduate Student
E-mail: kpyo002@ucr.edu
B.Sc., Biology, University of California, Riverside
Yaser Naji
Undergraduate Student
E-mail: ynaji001@ucr.edu
B.Sc., Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside
Rithu Madhyanam
Undergraduate Student
E-mail: rithu.madhyanam@email.ucr.edu
B.Sc., Biology, University of California, Riverside
Past Lab Members
Kriti Shah
Ibrahim Maaz
Chen Cai
Jennifer Le
Christian Bowman
Kriti Shah, PhD student March 2018–July 2023, then postdoc till Sept 2024, now postdoc at Stanford University
Ibrahim Maaz, undergraduate student during August 2021 - June 2024, now PhD student at Stanford University
Chen Cai, postdoc during August 2021 - April 2023, now postdoc at University of Utah School of Medicine
Jennifer Le, undergraduate student during March 2018 - June 2021, now PhD student at UCSF
Christian Bowman, junior specialist during June 2018 - May 2019, now PhD student at UCR
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