JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYEST. 1876

America’s First Research University

Cohort 2025

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Jake Anderson

Email: [email protected]

Research interests: Protein structure and dynamics, computational modeling

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Thomas Brew

Email: [email protected]

Research interests: Computational models of cell dynamics

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Alexander Carsten

Email: [email protected]

Research interests:

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Cole Christensen

Email: [email protected]

Research interests:

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Sophie Gaspel

Email: [email protected]

Research interests: Protein structure and function, RNA biophysics,  therapeutics

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Chevon Jordan

Email: [email protected]

Research interests: How proteins communicate allosterically through their interfaces, with potential applications to signaling and DNA repair mechanisms

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Nikita Kormshchikov

Email: [email protected]

Research interests:

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Chloe Liang

Email: cliang25@jhu.edu

Research interests:

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Fengquan Liu

Email: fliu42@jhu.edu

Research interests:

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Wyatt Peele

Email: [email protected]

Research interests:

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Jennie Russell

Email: [email protected]

Research interests: Protein structure, function, and stability

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Cailing Wang

Email: cwang268@jhu.edu

Research Interests: Theoritical biophysics, nonequilibrium dynamics, phase separation

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Jeffery Zhou

Email: [email protected]

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Cohort 2024

Morgan Fink

Morgan Fink

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Barrick

Research interests: Protein and nucleic acid folding

Harry Hwang

Harry Hwang

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: He

Research interests: Single-molecule methods

Jeff Khau

Jeffrey Khau

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: O’Brien

Research interests: Protein structure, function, and engineering

Kian mavalwala

Kian Mavalwala

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Huang

Research interests: Cell signaling, protein dynamics, mathematical modeling

Ben Sterwerf

Ben Sterwerf

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Bailey

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Sho Takeshita

Sho Takeshita

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Johnson

Research interests: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

Yuntong Zhu

Yuntong Zhu

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Camley

Research interests: Computational Biophysics and molecular simulation

Cohort 2023

Smriti Chhibber

Smriti Chhibber

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Johnson

Research Interests: Applying computational methods to study problems in biophysics across different length scales and complementing it with the understanding of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics

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Karolina Filipowska

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Reynolds

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Gabe Fortunato

Gabe Fortunato

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Hilser

Research interests: Understanding thermodynamics of protein folding

Chloe Kang

Chloe Kang

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: He

Research Interests: Gene expression regulation, chromatin remodeling by cryo-EM

Mariia Kryvoruchko

Mariia Kryvoruchko

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Camley

Research Interests: Theoretical biophysics, folding, energy landscape, dynamical systems in biology

Nathan Lee

Nathan Lee

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Frueh

Research interests: Protein dynamics, folding, thermodynamics, energy landscapes

Ruizhe Li

Ruizhe Li

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Huang

Research Interests: Protein structures, single molecule techniques

Justin Nguyen

Justin Nguyen

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Barrick

Research Interests:  Protein structures, function, and dynamics; protein design; combining computational and experimental methods

Derin Tanrioven

Derin Tanrioven

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Bowman

Research Interests: Folding dynamics, kinetics and regulation of macromolecular assembly/structure, single molecule techniques

Kiara Thompson

Kiara Thompson

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: O’Brien

Research Interests:  Protein structure and design engineering for therapeutic applications

Aaron Tran

Aaron Tran

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Xiao

Research Interests:  RNA structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interactions

Jeff Vogt

Jeffrey Vogt

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Gray

Research Interests:  RNA structural biology and computational biology

David Wollensak

David Wollensak

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Green

Research Interests:  Conserved structures in RNA and their roles in controlling translation, differentiation, and the immune system

Cohort 2022

Sam Botterbusch

Sam Botterbuch

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Kavran

Research interests: Regulation and activation of eukaryotic protein kinases

Gabriel Jimenez Avalos

Gabriel Jiménez Avalos

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Bowman

Research interests: Characterizing the landscape of nucleosome sliding by single molecule techniques.

Tisdale, Garrett

Garrett Tisdale

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Woodson

Research interests: Live cell imaging of translation kinetics

Elise White

Elise White

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Woodson

Research interests: Modeling the dynamics of Hfq-RNA interactions at an atomistic scale

Wood, Neil

Neil Wood

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Fried

Research interests: Understanding aging-related loss of proteostasis

Richard Yang

Richard Yang

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Zhang

Research Interests: Using coarse-grained simulations to model and probe the properties of biomolecular condensates

Zegans, Max

Max Zegans

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Bailey 

Research interests: Structural and kinetic basis of priming in the E. coli CRISPR system

Cohort 2021

Hutchinson, Zoe

Zoe Cross (Hutchinson)

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Bailey

Research interests: Structural studies of methyl reading proteins

Iryna Chelepis

Iryna Chelepis

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Bowman

Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of chromatin remodelers

Dillard, Lucas

Lucas Dillard

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Twomey

Research interests: Structure and assembly of tight junctions

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Jerry Dinan

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Reynolds

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Fabilane, Charina

Charina Fabilane

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Spangler

Research interests: Development of antibody-cytokine fusion proteins as a therapeutic by immunoengineering

Fine, Justyn

Justyn Fine

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Spangler

Research interests: Developing a directed evolution platform for antibody discovery.

Jingzhou Hao

Jingzhou Hao

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Ha

Research interests: Reconstituting nucleosomes with an in-vivo DNA sequence and evaluating dynamics of nucleosome wrapped in the in-vivo sequence 

Meneses, Paul

Paul Meneses

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Ha

Research interests: Binding and movement of proteins along nucleosomes

Tanya Nesterova

Tanya Nesterova

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Liu

Research interests: mathematical modeling to investigate the spatiotemporal regulation of bacterial cell wall synthesis proteins

Marie Pearce

Marie Pearce

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Hilser

Research interests: Characterizing metamorphic proteins by NMR

Tiantian Shang

Tiantian Shang

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Ha

Research Interests: Engineering an optically controllable helicase through high through-put methods

Cohort 2020

Anna Andrick

Anna Andrick

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Hilser

Research interests: Investigating coupling between domains in Adenylate Kinase

Soumya Behera

Soumya Prakash Behera

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Barrick

Research Interests: Characterizing structure and dynamics in Notch transcription factor (CSL) and repeat proteins using NMR spectroscopy

Meera Joshi

Meera Joshi

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Myong

Research Interests: How G-Quadruplexes, a nucleic acid secondary structure, can affect translation processes

Edgar MS

Edgar Manriquez-Sandoval

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Fried

Research interests: Identifying protein-protein interaction with crosslinking mass spectrometry

Ori, Andrea

Andrea Ori

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Fleming

Research interests: Thermodynamic characterization of outer membrane proteins using NMR

Sushil Pangeni

Sushil Pangeni

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Ha

Research Interests: Understanding the interaction of Replication proteins with DNA using single molecule fluorescence

Mankun Sang

Mankun Sang

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Johnson

Research Interests: Building a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion simulation tool

Qilan Wei

Qilan Wei

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Woodson

Research Interests: The impact of nucleoside modifications on ribosome assembly

Martin Yepes

Martin Yepes

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Xiao

Research interests: Tracking the in vivo dynamics of lytic transglycosylases

Cohort 2019

Franklin Aviles

Franklin Aviles

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Ha

Research interests: Exploring the kinetics and dynamics of Rad51 DNA repair protein in telomeres

Yingda Ge

Yingda Ge

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Myong

Research Interests: Using smFRET to characterize the interactions between RNA and RNA binding proteins during the process of liquid-liquid phase separation

Fran Harris

Fran Harris

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Xiao

Research interests: Investigating chromosome organization and gene expression in E. coli

Qu, Amanda

Amanda Qu

Email: [email protected]

Main adviser: Nikolova

Research interests: Biophysical investigations of allostery in consensus designed enzymes

Cohort 2018

Sarah Brantley

Sarah Brantley

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Hilser

Research interests: Characterization of dynamic disorder in enzymes using NMR spectroscopy

Amy Fernandez

Amy Fernandez

Email: [email protected]

Main Adviser: Berger

Research interests: Structural and mechanistic studies of prokaryotic DNA replication initiation

Cohort 2017

Arman Siddiqui

Arman Siddiqui

Email: [email protected]

Main Advisor: Berger

Research Interests: Structural and mechanistic study into type IIA topoisomerase energy transduction capabilities