The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs invites you to a research seminar featuring the 2024 W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellows.

The seminar will be held from 4:00-5:00pm. A reception immediately following will celebrate the launch the 2025 award cycle.

2024 W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardees

Dr. Jasmine Cubuk, “Structural dynamics of the intrinsically disordered linker region of cardiac troponin T”
Dr. Jasmine Cubuk is a second-year postdoc in Andrea Soranno’s lab in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department. Her research focuses on sequence properties of disordered regions and how they can affect their inter/intra-molecular interactions and ultimately protein function. In a joint effort across the Soranno, Greenberg, and Holehouse labs, she is currently using single-molecule tools to study the functional role of poor-prognosis single-point mutations within the disordered regions of Troponin T.

Dr. Keri-Lyn Kozul, “PPTC7: A phosphatase identified as a novel key player in mitochondrial disease”
Dr. Keri-Lyn Kozul is a W.M Keck Postdoctoral Fellow from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at WashU. She earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors from The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She then continued her studies at The University of Queensland, where she earned her PhD early last year. Her Ph.D. experience sparked her interest in how mitochondrial diseases arise from defective mitochondrial removal. To further study this, Keri-Lyn joined Associate Professor Natalie Niemi’s group at WashU as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where she has been uncovering a novel form of mitochondrial disease caused by a mitochondrial phosphatase.

Dr. Cristina Simo
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology