Roy J Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University

Principal Investigator:

Walter N. Moss, PhD
e-mail: wmoss@iastate.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students:

Taylor Eich - BBMB
e-mail: teich@iastate.edu
Research: Analysis of intronic RNA structures.

Evelyn Coppenbarger - BBMB
e-mail: ecoppen@iastate.edu
Research: computational approaches for RNA structure prediction.

Damilare Dabiri - GEN
e-mail: ddabiri@iastate.edu
Research: Discovery and characterization of functional RNA in viral genomes.

Abdelraouf Dapour - BCB
e-mail: raouf@iastate.edu
Research: AI and machine learning approaches applied to RNA structure analysis.

Undergraduate Students:

Mason Eisenhauer - Biochemistry Major, Honor’s Program
e-mail: masoneis@iastate.edu
Research: Discovery of functional RNA structures in plant genomes.

Harrison Smith - Biochemistry Major
e-mail: hsmith42@iastate.edu
Research: Analysis of conserved structural RNAs in human genes.

Lab Alumni:

Graduate Students:

Warren Rouse - BBMB Graduate Student, left with PhD and currently an Associate Scientist at Kemin Industries
Jake Peterson - BBMB Graduate Student, left with PhD and currently a Bioprocess Scientist at Elanco Animal Health
Collin O'Leary - BBMB Graduate Student, left with PhD and currently an Assistant Professor at Cornell College
Ryan Andrews - BBMB Graduate Student, left with PhD and currently postdoc with Brenda Bass
Nuwanthika Kumarasinghe - BBMB Graduate Student, left with MS degree

Staff:

Van Tompkins - Senior Scientist, now an educator of the youth
Lumbini “Indee” Moss - Postdoctoral Associate, now an artist
Sandamali Dassanayaka - Lab Technician, now in a new lab

Undergraduate Students:

Zheng “Sam” Xue - Biochemistry Major
Abigail Fowler - Microbiology Major
Margot Nall - Honor’s Program
Andrea Tigges - Genetics Major
Jenny Zhou - Biochemistry Major
Rachel Hoffmann - Biochemistry Major