Jim Brown
PI
james_brown@ncsu.edu

Jim works on university paperwork, reviews grants & manuscripts, writes papers & grant proposals, teaches, advises students, serves on committees, directs the students in the lab, &c, &c. He has a lab bench he uses primarily for preping the lab for MB 451; the last time he ran an actual experiment was apparently sometime in the late Cretaceous.

1/94 - present

Xiao Song
Biology undergraduate

Xiao is doing undergraduate research in the Brown lab, obtaining ssu-rRNA and RNase P RNA sequences from some environmental isolates. These will be charactized in terms of the phylotype of the organisms (based on ssu-rRNA trees) and the secondary structure of their RNase P RNA.

8/09 - present

Jing Li
Bioinformatics Graduate student

Jing is a student in the Global Training Initiative Program, in the Master's program in Bioinformatics. Jing has experience with molecular information databases, and is working of a long-overdue complete renovation of the RNase P Database.

8/09 - present