Bratton, Shawn B., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
PHR 5.218C
512-471-1735
sbbratton@mail.utexas.edu

Youngeun Choi, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
College of Pharmacy

Email:choi7493@hotmail.com
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Advisor: Dipanjan Chowdhury

As a grad student in the Bratton Lab, my project focused primarily on understanding how two related inhibitor of apoptosis proteins, cIAP1 and cIAP2, suppressed apoptosis through their distinct interactions with the effector caspases- 3 and -7.

Education:
B.S.: Pharmacy (Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea)
M.S.: Analytical Pharmaceutics (Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea)
Ph.D.: Pharmacy (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)

Shankar Varadarajan, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Cell and Molecular Biology

Email: shankar.varadarajan@gmail.com
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow; Medical Research Council - Toxicology Unit, Leicester, UK; Advisor: Gerald M. Cohen

As a grad student in the Bratton Lab, I worked on two different research projects; one project dealt with the role of p38 MAPKs in regulating autophagy and lysosomal biogenesis, while the other project involved TNFR1 signaling and receptor trafficking mechanisms.

Education:
B.S.: Pharmacy (The TN Dr.MGR Medical University, Chennai, India)
M.S.: Biotechnology (Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India)
Ph.D.: Cell and Molecular Biology (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)