Roll-Mecak Lab: People


Antonina Roll-Mecak, Ph.D. Principal Investigator and Unit Chief Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit NINDS, joint appointment in NHLBI A ntonina@mail.nih.gov [download CV]		Antonina trained as an engineer at The Cooper Union and obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from The Rockefeller University. She conducted her postdoctoral studies with Ron Vale at the University of California, San Francisco.
Agnieszka Szyk, Ph.D. Biochemist Extraordinaire Szyka@mail.nih.gov		Aga graduated from the University of Gdansk specializing in peptide chemistry. She conducted her postdoctoral studies in protein biochemistry and X-ray crystallography with Jacek Lubowski and Michael Maurizi at NCI. She loves all things that have to do with biochemistry!
Christopher Garnham, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow and Hockey Player Extraordinaire christopher.garnham@nih.gov		Chris obtained his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he worked on the structure and mechanism of ice binding proteins. He is now pursuing structural and functional studies of tubulin modifying enzymes.
Lisa Kizub Biochemist Extraordinaire Protegee kizubva@mail.nih.gov		Lisa received her bachelor’s degree at the Johns Hopkins University in biophysics and conducted her first studies in the lab of Gregory Bowman dissecting the mechanism of chromatin remodeling. She is now interested in structural insights into the intricate world of cytoskeletal proteins.
Natasza Ziolkowska, Ph.D. Research Fellow Powerhouse ziolkowskane@mail.nih.gov		Natasza graduated from the Technical University of Lódz. She conducted postdoctoral studies with Alex Wlodawer at NCI and Tobi Walter at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried focusing on plasma membrane organization by eisosomes. She is now working on tubulin engineering and post-translational modifcations.

SUMMER STUDENTS (gone, but not forgotten)

Rachel Leksana Intern Extraordinaire and Webmaster rachel_leksana@comcast.net		Rachel worked for two summers in the lab while attending Montgomery Blair High School. She designed our lab database, was our webmaster extraordinaire and learned cool stuff about microtubules and proteins. She is now a Computer Science major at Carnegie Mellon.
Max Valenstein Summer Student Extraordinaire max.valenstein@yale.edu		Max is a junior at Yale in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry program. He spent a summer in the lab working on elucidating the mechanism of action of the hereditary spastic paraplegia protein spastin.