Cohort 2025
Jake Anderson
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Protein structure and dynamics, computational modeling
Cole Christensen
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Research interests: Mathematical and computational modeling of cellular processes, nonequilibrium mechanics
Sophie Gaspel
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Protein structure and function, RNA biophysics, therapeutics
Chevon Jordan
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Research interests: How proteins communicate allosterically through their interfaces, with potential applications to signaling and DNA repair mechanisms
Wyatt Peele
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Protein structure–function relationships, computational screening, and therapeutic design
Jennie Russell
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Protein structure, function, and stability
Cailing Wang
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Research Interests: Theoritical biophysics, nonequilibrium dynamics, phase separation
Jeffery Zhou
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Computational protein structure and design.
Cohort 2024
Morgan Fink
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Main adviser: Barrick
Research interests: Protein and nucleic acid folding
Jeffrey Khau
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Main adviser: O’Brien
Research interests: Protein structure, function, and engineering
Kian Mavalwala
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Huang
Research interests: Cell signaling, protein dynamics, mathematical modeling
Sho Takeshita
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Johnson
Research interests: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
Yuntong Zhu
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Camley
Research interests: Computational Biophysics and molecular simulation
Cohort 2023
Smriti Chhibber
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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
Karolina Filipowska
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Reynolds
Research interests: Understanding how protein activity is shaped by the cellular context and evolution
Gabe Fortunato
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Main adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Understanding thermodynamics of protein folding
Chloe Kang
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: He
Research Interests: Gene expression regulation, chromatin remodeling by cryo-EM
Mariia Kryvoruchko
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Camley
Research Interests: Theoretical biophysics, folding, energy landscape, dynamical systems in biology
Nathan Lee
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Main adviser: Frueh
Research interests: Protein dynamics, folding, thermodynamics, energy landscapes
Ruizhe Li
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Main Adviser: Huang
Research Interests: Protein structures, single molecule techniques
Fengquan Liu
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Main Adviser: Damjanovic
Research interests: Theoretical and computational biophysics, coarse-grained molecular dynamics
Justin Nguyen
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Main Adviser: Barrick
Research Interests: Protein structures, function, and dynamics; protein design; combining computational and experimental methods
Derin Tanrioven
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Main Adviser: Bowman
Research Interests: Folding dynamics, kinetics and regulation of macromolecular assembly/structure, single molecule techniques
Kiara Thompson
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Main Adviser: O’Brien
Research Interests: Protein structure and design engineering for therapeutic applications
Aaron Tran
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Main Adviser: Xiao
Research Interests: RNA structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interactions
Jeffrey Vogt
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Main Adviser: Gray
Research Interests: RNA structural biology and computational biology
David Wollensak
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Main Adviser: Green
Research Interests: Conserved structures in RNA and their roles in controlling translation, differentiation, and the immune system
Cohort 2022
Sam Botterbuch
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Kavran
Research interests: Regulation and activation of eukaryotic protein kinases
Gabriel Jiménez Avalos
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Bowman
Research interests: Characterizing the landscape of nucleosome sliding by single molecule techniques
Garrett Tisdale
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Woodson
Research interests: Live cell imaging of translation kinetics
Elise White
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Main Adviser: Woodson
Research interests: Modeling the dynamics of Hfq-RNA interactions at an atomistic scale
Neil Wood
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Fried
Research interests: Understanding aging-related loss of proteostasis
Richard Yang
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Zhang
Research Interests: Using coarse-grained simulations to model and probe the properties of biomolecular condensates
Max Zegans
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Bailey
Research interests: Structural and kinetic basis of priming in the E. coli CRISPR system
Cohort 2021
Zoe Cross (Hutchinson)
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Bailey
Research interests: Structural studies of methyl reading proteins
Iryna Chelepis
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Bowman
Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of chromatin remodelers
Lucas Dillard
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Main Adviser: Twomey
Research interests: Structure and assembly of tight junctions
Jerry Dinan
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Reynolds
Research interests: Protein design, evolution, and allostery
Charina Fabilane
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Spangler
Research interests: Development of antibody-cytokine fusion proteins as a therapeutic by immunoengineering
Justyn Fine
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Spangler
Research interests: Developing a directed evolution platform for antibody discovery
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
Paul Meneses
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Main Adviser: Ha
Research interests: Binding and movement of proteins along nucleosomes
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
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Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Characterizing metamorphic proteins by NMR
Tiantian Shang
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Main Adviser: Ha
Research Interests: Engineering an optically controllable helicase through high through-put methods
Cohort 2020
Anna Andrick
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Investigating coupling between domains in Adenylate Kinase
Soumya Prakash Behera
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Main Adviser: Barrick
Research Interests: Characterizing structure and dynamics in Notch transcription factor (CSL) and repeat proteins using NMR spectroscopy
Meera Joshi
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Myong
Research Interests: How G-Quadruplexes, a nucleic acid secondary structure, can affect translation processes
Edgar Manriquez-Sandoval
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Fried
Research interests: Identifying protein-protein interaction with crosslinking mass spectrometry
Andrea Ori
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Main Adviser: Fleming
Research interests: Thermodynamic characterization of outer membrane proteins using NMR
Sushil Pangeni
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Ha
Research Interests: Understanding the interaction of Replication proteins with DNA using single molecule fluorescence
Mankun Sang
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Johnson
Research Interests: Building a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion simulation tool
Qilan Wei
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Main Adviser: Woodson
Research Interests: The impact of nucleoside modifications on ribosome assembly
Martin Yepes
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Tracking the in vivo dynamics of lytic transglycosylases
Cohort 2019
Franklin Aviles
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Main Adviser: Ha
Research interests: Exploring the kinetics and dynamics of Rad51 DNA repair protein in telomeres
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
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Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Investigating chromosome organization and gene expression in E. coli
Amanda Qu
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Main adviser: Nikolova
Research interests: Biophysical investigations of allostery in consensus designed enzymes
Cohort 2018
Sarah Brantley
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Characterization of dynamic disorder in enzymes using NMR spectroscopy
Amy Fernandez
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Main Adviser: Berger
Research interests: Structural and mechanistic studies of prokaryotic DNA replication initiation
Cohort 2017
Arman Siddiqui
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Main Advisor: Berger
Research Interests: Structural and mechanistic study into type IIA topoisomerase energy transduction capabilities