People in the Hockemeyer Lab
Principal Investigator Dirk Hockemeyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetics (2007-2012)
Advisor: Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute
Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology (2002-2007)
Advisor: Dr. Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University
B.S. and M.S. in Biochemistry (1998-2002)
Advisor: Dr. Alfred Nordheim, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
Lab Manager Kelsey Hennick
B.S. in Genetics
University of California, Davis
Research interests in the lab:
(coming soon)
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Graduate Student John Boyle
B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Research interests in the lab:
Telomere length plays an integral role in both cancer and aging. My project investigates the effects of telomere length dynamics in tumorigenesis.
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Graduate Student Franziska Lorbeer
Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
PhD Fellow
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
M.Sc. in Molecular Biosciences (Caner Biology)
Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
B.S. in Molecular Biomedicine
Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn
Research interests in the lab:
(coming soon)
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Graduate Student Timothy K. Turkalo
Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Cell Biology
University of Kansas
Research interests in the lab:
I am interested in uncovering the genetic and epigenetic determinants for the activation of the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) pathway. ALT is a cancer-specific mechanism for proliferative immortality, thus identifying how the process initiates has substantial implications for potential therapeutics.
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Graduate Student Sara Seunga Choo
Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Research interests in the lab:
(coming soon)
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Graduate Student Rebecca Bartke
Ph.D. Student in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology '16
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research interests in the lab:
I am investigating the roles of nucleases in telomere maintenance.
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Graduate Student Annika Martin
Ph.D. Student in Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Biophysics '17
Bringham Young University
Research interests in the lab:
(coming soon)
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Postdoctoral Associate Hanqin Li
Postdoctoral Associate at the Innovative Genomics Institute
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Nueroscience
State University of New York, Buffalo
B.S. in Life Sciences
Nanjing University
Research interest in the lab:
My project studies the functions of genomic elements using high-throughput methods.
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Visiting Scholar Emma van Grinsven
M.S. student in Cancer, Stem Cells, and Developmental Biology
Advisor: Dirk Hockemeyer
Ulrecht University
B.S. in Biology
Ulrecht University
Research interest in the lab:
Studying the molecular mechanism of TIN2 and investigating how TIN2 mutations lead to the telomere-shortening disease Diskeratosis Congenita
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