Paul A. Lindahl - Principal Investigator
I grew up in Chicago where I became fascinated with biochemistry in high school. I attended North Park College, also in Chicago, and majored in chemistry. I attended graduate school at MIT and did a post-doc at the University of Minnesota. In 1988 I joined the faculty in the Chemistry Department at Texas A&M University, where I have been ever since. In 1996 I married Lora Anne Schneider. We have three kids, including Laena, Karl and Grace.
Biography | Publications | Email: lindahl@mail.chem.tamu.eduMrinmoy Chakrabarti
I am from India. I obtained my Masters’ degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and earned my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, under Dr. Eckard Münck. My Ph.D. thesis was titled "Mössbauer, EPR and Theoretical studies of oxygen activating enzymes and of a [Fe4S4] cluster relevant to biological nitrogen fixation”. I am currently a post-doctoral research scholar in the Lindahl lab and my current project involves studying mitochondrial iron metabolism in mice.
Email: mrinmoy.chak@chem.tamu.eduSean McCormick
I was born and raised in a little city called Chicago, Illinois. Prior to attending Texas A&M, I Graduated from DePaul University (Chicago, IL) in 2008 with a B.S. in Chemistry (Biochemistry) and a minor in Biology. Outside of lab I enjoy cooking, sports, and watching crime dramas on television.
My research in the Lindahl Lab at TAMU is focused on the isolation and characterization of low molecular weight iron complexes in cells under anaerobic conditions using bio-analytical separation methods and biophysical characterization methods. Besides carrying out research, I'm responsible for the group's EPR spectrometer and new ICP-MS instrument.
Jinkyu Park
I graduated from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea (B.S. in 2005, M.S. in 2007). My research is mainly about iron homeostasis in genetic mutant strains of yeast. Mtm1 mutant strain is known to show a decreased mitochondrial manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD2) activity due to a ‘mis-incorporated’ iron, which is also called ‘bio-available’ iron. In order to find a form of the bioavailable iron, I am investigating iron in mitochondria and whole yeast cell by using Mössbauer spectroscopy
Email: jupark@chem.tamu.eduAllison Cockrell
Howdy! I am a proud Texan and a student in the Ph.D. program for Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University. I am from Burnet, TX and attended Texas Lutheran University (Seguin) where I received my B.S. in Chemistry in 2008. I joined the Ph. D. program in Fall 2008 and the Lindahl lab in Spring 2009. Currently my project involves isolating and studying yeast vacuoles- organelles which store a large amount of cellular iron..
Email: allison.cockrell@chem.tamu.eduNema Jhurry
I was born on the tiny island of Mauritius. I came to the U.S. in 2004 and attended Fairleigh Dickinson University (Teaneck, NJ) for two years before transferring to Texas A&M University in 2006 to complete my undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. I joined the Ph. D. program in Biochemistry in 2008 and have been a member of the Lindahl lab since Spring 2009. My research is concerned with studying iron distribution in human cells and human mitochondria.
Email: nema.jhurry@chem.tamu.eduMichael Moore
I was raised in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, a small little town where nothing ever happened. I graduated from Gannon University in Erie, PA in May 2011 with my B.S. in Chemistry and academic minors in Biology and Philosophy. After completing my undergrad, I took a year off, working as a chemist at a local industry called LORD Corporation. Although the big boy paychecks provided by industry were more than generous, I decided to pursue my Ph.D. in Chemistry at Texas A&M and will be starting my first year in the Fall of 2012. My research is yet to be determined. Chances are it'll involve purifying low molecular weight metal species from isolated yeast and human cell mitos employing isoelectric focusing methods and characterizing said complexes using biophysical techniques.