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The Graduate Students

Michelle Farah

• SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, Fall 2002 - Present. Pursuing PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon, Fall 1998-2002. B.S. in Biology

• SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, 2003-2007. PhD Student in Dr. David Amberg's laboratory
• Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Woodbury, NY, Summer 2004. Teaching Assistant for Yeast Genetics Course
• SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, Winter 2002-2003. Rotation student in Dr. Richard Wojcikiewicz's laboratory
• Chronic Care Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Summer 2001. Undergraduate Reseach Assistant in Dr. Pierre Zalloua's genetics laboratory

• Farah ME and Amberg DC. (2007) Conserved actin cysteine residues are oxidative stress sensors that can regulate cell death in yeast. Molec. Biol. Cell, April 2007; 18 (4): 1359-1365.
• Xu Q, Farah M, Webster JM, Wojcikiewicz RJ. (2004) Bortezomib rapidly suppresses ubiquitin thiolesterification to ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes and inhibits ubiquitination of histones and type I inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor. Mol Cancer Ther, October 2004; 3 (10): 1263-9.
• Yeast Cell Biology Meeting. Cold Springs Harbor, Woodbury, NY. Summer 2005. "Actin's cysteine residues are oxidative sensors that can regulate programmed cell death in yeast".
• Princeton Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, Princeton, NJ. Summer 2006. "Actin's cysteines: Sensors and Regulators of Cell Death in Yeast" - Poster Presenter.
• Biomedical Sciences Retreat, Skaneateles, NY. Fall 2006. Poster Presenter.

• 2002 - Biomedical Sciences PhD program scholarship
• 2004 - Honors award for PhD qualification exam

• Graduate Student Power Tea. Participant: Spring 2002 - Spring 2006. Research Forum giving graduate students an opportunity to discuss their research with fellow students from all departments.
• Graduate Student Association. Member: 2002 - Present. President: Spring 2005 - Spring 2006
• Teaching Assistant. Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Yeast Genetics Course, Summer 2004

• 2005 - Present: Genetics Society of America
• 2006 - Present: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2002 - Present: American University of Beirut Alumnus
  

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