paprock9@uwm.edu
414-229-2290
KIRC 2010
Graduate Research Assistant
Physics – General
Joel originally joined the Raicu Group in 2012 as an undergraduate researcher. After obtaining his undergraduate and master’s degrees in physics, Joel began his unique multidisciplinary doctoral program in 2015. Joel’s program is titled “Quantitative Molecular and Cellular Biophysics,” which encapsulates work from physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics. Joel focuses on further development of FRET theory through experimental methods aimed towards understanding molecular interactions. The molecular interactions studied in his work concentrate on G protein-coupled receptors, with a prototypical yeast pheromone receptor, Ste2. The skills involved in his work range over a variety of biological, biochemical, optical, and physics-based techniques, and his work truly crosses from experimental to theoretical, which is why his program is suited so well for this type of work. He passed his preliminary exam at the beginning of 2017, and plans to graduate in the Fall semester of 2017.
Current Publications
- Stoneman MR, Paprocki JD, Biener G, Yokoi K, Shevade A, Kuchin S, Raicu V. Quaternary structure of the yeast pheromone receptor Ste2 in living cells. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2017 Sep; 1859(9 Pt A): 1456-1464.
- Corby MJ, Stoneman MR, Biener G, Paprocki JD, Kolli R, Raicu V, Frick D. Quantitative microspectroscopic imaging reveals viral and cellular RNA helicase interactions in living cells. J Biol Chem. 2017 Jul 7; 292(27): 11165-11177.
- Li Z, Wang Y, Huang J, Ahsan N, Biener G, Paprocki J, Thelen JJ, Raicu V, Zhao D. Two SERK Receptor-Like Kinases Interact with EMS1 to Control Anther Cell Fate Determination. Plant Physiol. 2017 Jan; 173(1):326-337.