Eichinger Lab - Molecular Biology of Entamoeba histolytica

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Current Lab Members:

	Mark Gage is a Chemistry major from NYU. When not running marathons, playing lacrosse or visiting Florida, he uses Dictyostelium to express Entamoeba receptors for ligand identification. He will attend NYU School of Medicine in Fall 2007.
	Daniella Kovacsics is a PhD student who joined the lab in 2006. She obtained her BS in Biology from PACE University where she studied drug efflux pumps of bacteria. She is now on the trail of 7tm domain receptors from Entamoeba and Dictyostelium that are involved in differentiation.
	Arthi Krishnappa is an Assistant Research Scientist. She has a MS degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology. In addition to carrying out a range of defined experiments on Entamoeba encystation, she maintains the cultures of the multiple strains of Entamoeba that are used in the lab.
	Biswa Mitra is a postdoctoral fellow who joined the lab in 2007. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Tsukuba Univ, Japan, and spent several years as a postdoc at Gunma Univ. School of Medicine. He now studies mechanisms that regulate entry into and exit from the cyst stage of Entamoeba.
	Paloma Vargas is a PhD student who joined the lab in 2006. She obtained her BS in Biology from the Univ. of Texas, El Paso where she studied upregulation of proteins in migrating monarchs. She is now examining histone modification and regulation of translation in Entamoeba.