Susan Forsburg, PhD.

Professor of Biological Sciences, Program in Molecular & Computational Biology

AB, UC Berkeley (English and Molecular Biology)
PhD, MIT (Biology/Genetics)
postdoc, ICRF-Oxford University (cell cycle)

Awards/Honors:
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
Fellow, Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Roche Diagnostics Alice M Evans Award, American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Junior Career Award, Women in Cell Biology, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Stohlman Scholar, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Publications: see publication page

Susan Forsburg

KuoFang Shen, PhD

Postdoc

BS, National Taiwan University
MS, Graduate Institute of Biological Sciences, Taipei (Taiwan)
PhD, Ohio State
1. Aronica L, Kasparek T, Ruchman D, Marquez Y, Cipak L, Cipakova I, Anrather D, Mikolaskova B, Radtke M, Sarkar S, Pai CC, Blaikley E, Walker C, Shen KF, Schroeder R, Barta A, Forsburg SL, Humphrey TC. (2016) The spliceosome-associated protein Nrl1 suppresses homologous recombination-dependent R-loop formation in fission yeast. Nucl Acids Res. 29;44(4):1703-17
KuoFang Shen

Wilber Escorcia

Graduate Student


BA, Cal State, Northridge
MS, Cal State, Northridge

Wilber Escorcia

Ji-Ping Yuan

Lab Manager

BS, HeBei University, China
MS, Cal State Los Angeles

Lab Publications
1. Dolan, W.P., A.H. Le, H. Schmidt, J.P. Yuan, M. Green, and S.L. Forsburg. 2010. Fission yeast Hsk1 (Cdc7) kinase is required after replication initiation for induced mutagenesis and proper response to DNA alkylation damage. Genetics 185(1): p. 39-53. PMC 2870973
2. Li PC, Petreaca RC, Jensen A, Yuan JP, Green MD, Forsburg SL. (2013), Replication fork stability is essential for the maintenance of centromere integrity in the absence of heterochromatin. Cell Rep. 2013 Mar 28;3(3):638-45. 
3. Sabatinos, S.A., Ranatunga, N., Green, M.D. and Yuan, J.-P. Forsburg, S.L. (2015) Replication stress in early S phase generates apparent micronuclei and chromosome rearrangement in fission yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell 26(19):3439-50 cover

Ji-Ping Yuan

Amanda Jensen

Graduate Student

BS: UC San Diego

1. Li PC, Petreaca RC, Jensen A, Yuan JP, Green MD, Forsburg SL. (2013), Replication fork stability is essential for the maintenance of centromere integrity in the absence of heterochromatin. Cell Rep. 2013 Mar 28;3(3):638-45.

Amanda Jensen

Yael Frieberg, technician

BS, MS, USC

Yael Frieberg

  • Ashley Yi

Former Members

  • Sabine Ottilie PhD,
    Sally Pasion PhD, San Francisco State
    Hilary Snaith PhD, Univ. Edinburgh
    Eliana Gómez PhD, Barofold Inc
    Rania Siam PhD, American Univ Cairo Egypt
    Julie Bailis PhD, Amgen Pharaceuticals
    Douglas Dalle Luche PhD, Invent Biotecnologia, Brazil
    Angel Tabancay PhD, USC
    Ruben Petreaca PhD Pomona College
    Sarah Sabatinos PhD Ryerson University

  • (UCSD)
    Dan Sherman PhD
    Debbie Liang PhD
    Mike Catlett PhD
    Danielle BIshop (Paige) MS
    Allison Shearer MS
    Nick Herrera PhD*
    Beth Rasala PhD*
    Dan Pankratz PhD*
    William Dolan PhD

    (USC)
    Rebecca Nugent PhD
    Anh-Huy Le PhD
    Pao-Chen Li PhD
    Lin Ding PhD
    Tara Mastro PhD
    Nimna Ranatunga, PhD

    *part of degree

  • (UCSD)
    Lisa Marinelli MD
    Rachel Smith MD
    Ciani Palencia
    Irma Padilla
    Vanessa Angeles PhD
    Diana Libuda PhD
    Andrew Waight PhD

    (USC)
    Kyung Ji MD
    Roy Won
    Wilson Ong
    Mike Go
    Brian Fowler
    Peggy Weng
    Jesse Tran
    Paula Tran MD
    Matthew Getz
    Elizabeth Crow
    Lisa Tran
    Belinda Chang
    Tarim Song
    Ana Hernandez
    Cara Bickers
    Carolyn Li
    Beverly Tse
    Georgina Lean
    Yoona Jung
    Kevin Givechian
    Yael Frieberg
    Brianna Murrin
    Adriana Gardener