Part of the Center for Biomedical Genomics and Informatics (CBMGI) and Molecular and Microbiology Department (MMB)

• Aybike Birerdinc (PhD student, Topic: “KCNRG as tumor suppressor for CLL and MM”)
• Manpreet Kaur Randhawa (PhD student, Topic: “Ectopic synthesis of melanin in adipose from morbidly obese subjects”)
• Mohammed Hussein Jarrar (PhD student, Topic: “A role of excessive adipose in the development of the Non-Alcoholic steatohepatitis”)
• Yvette S Connell-Albert (PhD student, Topic: “A role of the pannexins in the development of the astrocytic tumors”)
• Irene Fanous (Undergraduate)
• Fauzia Tasleima Jones (Undergraduate)
• Linda Dickerson (MS student)

Our lab is actively collaborating with the Functional Genomics Group at Russian Center of Medical Genetics RAMN, (Director: Prof. E.K. Ginter).

• Dr. Mikler Skoblov (Group Leader)
• Dr.Tatiana Tiazhelova (Research Scientist, temporarily on leave)
• Dr. Vassily Khomenkov (Research Scientist)
• Anna Guskova (Research Scientist)
• Olesya Nuruitdinova (Research Assistant)
• Andrey Marakhonov (PhD Student)

Students graduated form the lab and former associates:

• Shobha Gowder, Research Assistant, now in ATCC
• Dr. Tariq Alsheddi (graduated from PhD program)
• Babu Pusulury (MS student)
• Lesya Geraymovitch (Undergraduate, now in VCU MedSchool)
• Steve King (MS student, now in ATCC)
• Nick Shahan (MS student, graduated)
• Djanira Murchison (MS student, graduated)
• Francisco Otaizo (BS student, now in ATCC)
• Ivan Panov (Undergraduate)

PhD students graduated from the Functional Genomics lab after completion of the collaborative projects with Ancha’s lab in George Mason University:

• Dr. Dmitry Ivanov, Topic: “RFP2 and other TSG candidates located in 13q14 often deleted in human cancers”. Now: Post-doc Researcher in Dr. Shestopalov’s lab in" Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL, USA
• Dr. Andrey Lobashev, Topic: In silico screening for tumor-specific expressed sequences in human genome. Now: AndyVortex, official fan-club page of Arida Vortex
• Dr. Natalya Makeeva, Topic: “Comparative analysis of the 13q14.3 region often deleted in CLL and other human malignancies”. Now: Post-doc Researcher in Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
• Dr. Anna Pestova, Topic: “Comparative analysis of the pannexin encoding genes in human and rodent genomes”. Now: ?
• Dr. Skoblov and Dr. Tiazhelova are also graduated from the same lab. They are currently working in the Functional Genomics Group at Russian Center of Medical Genetics RAMN, Moscow