Hannah Toutkoushian

Hannah Toutkoushian

Alumni Graduate Student

hannah@walterlab.ucsf.edu

Scientific Interest

Protein homeostasis, translational control, signalling pathways

Current Research Interests

Investigating the regulation of translation initiation during stress and the downstream consequences for the cell.

Former Lab Affiliations

2013-2016

Dr. David Popham, Virginia Tech

Education

2012-2016	B.S. Biochemistry – Virginia Tech
2016-present	Ph.D Biochemistry & Cell Biology – University of California, San Francisco, USA

Selected Publications

Wang L, Toutkoushian H, Belyy V, Kokontis C, Walter P. Conserved structural elements specialize ATAD1 as a membrane protein extraction machine. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.24.461712, 2021
(PMID: not available) (PDF)

Perlaza K, Toutkoushian H, Boone M, Lam M, Iwai M, Jonikas MC, Walter P, Ramundo S. The Mars1 kinase confers photoprotection through signaling in the chloroplast unfolded protein response. eLife 8:e49577, 2019
(PMID: 31612858) (PDF)