Irina Pozdnyakova, PhD Chemistry(2002, Tulane)
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University School of Medicine, Regan Laboratory (2003- )
PhD, Tulane University; New Orleans, Louisiana
MS, University of St. Petersburg; Russia (A. Belustin)

Irina is from St Petersburg, Russia. She received her PhD working in Pernilla's Group on the folding of the blue-copper protein, azurin. She stayed as a post-doctoral fellow for a brief period before continuing her research career at Yale University.

Kathryn Jones, PhD Molecular & Cell Biology (2003, Tulane)
Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Immunology/Inflammation
PhD, Tulane University; New Orleans, Louisiana
BS, Princeton University; Princeton, New Jersey.

During her time at Tulane with Pernilla, Kathryn investigated diagnostic properties of peptides derived from an invariable region of the spirochete surface protein VlsE that is immuno-dominant. In addition, she characterized the full-length VslE protein.

Catherine Higgins, PhD Chemistry (2004, Tulane)
Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine,
Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology Training Program
PhD, Tulane University; New Orleans, Louisiana
BS, College of William & Mary; Williamsburg, Virginia.

While at Tulane in Pernilla's group, Cathy researched unfolding and stability of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus. Currently, she is a postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine and receives funding by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

David Apiyo, PhD Chemistry (2003, Tulane)
Postdoctoral Associate (2005-2006, Rice)
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Government Lab, WA (2006- )

David is from Kenya. He received his PhD working in Pernilla's group on the folding and stability of flavodoxin. He did a postdoc at University of Central Florida (2003-2004) learning crystallography before returning to Pernilla (at Rice) for a second postdoc position. During his time at Rice, he worked on the complex between azurin and p53 which leads to cancer cell death.

B. K. Muralidhara, Postdoc (2002-2004, Tulane & Rice)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (2004- )
PhD, University of Mysore; Mysore, India.

Murali comes from Mysore, India, where he received his PhD in Biochemistry from The Central Food Technological Research Institute, University of Mysore. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Scholar (1998-2000) at Kyoto University, Japan. He also held a faculty position (2000-2002) at CFTRI, Mysore, before moving to Pernilla’s group. As a postdoc with Pernilla, he worked on kinetics and thermodynamics of cofactor binding in flavodoxin.