Year 1
Jake Anderson
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Protein structure and dynamics, computational modeling
Sophie Gaspel
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Protein structure and function, RNA biophysics, therapeutics
Chevon Jordan
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: How proteins communicate allosterically through their interfaces, with potential applications to signaling and DNA repair mechanisms
Jennie Russell
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Research interests: Protein structure, function, and stability
Year 2
Morgan Fink
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Main adviser: Barrick
Research interests: Protein and nucleic acid folding
Jeffrey Khau
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: O’Brien
Research interests: Protein structure, function, and engineering
Sho Takeshita
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Johnson
Research interests: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
Year 3
Gabe Fortunato (he/him)
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Understanding thermodynamics of protein folding
Nathan Lee
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Frueh
Research interests: Protein dynamics, folding, thermodynamics, energy landscapes
Justin Nguyen (he/him)
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Barrick
Research Interests: Protein structures, function, and dynamics; protein design; combining computational and experimental methods
Kiara Thompson (she/her)
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: O’Brien
Research Interests: Protein structure and design engineering for therapeutic applications
Aaron Tran (they/them)
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research Interests: RNA structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interactions
Jeffrey Vogt
Email: [email protected]
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
Year 4
Sam Botterbuch
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Kavran
Research interests: Regulation and activation of eukaryotic protein kinases
Garrett Tisdale
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Wu
Research interests: Live cell imaging of translation kinetics
Elise White (she/her)
Email: [email protected]
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
Max Zegans
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Bailey
Research interests: Structural and kinetic basis of priming in the E. coli CRISPR system
Year 5
Zoe Cross (Hutchinson)
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Bailey
Research interests: Structural studies of methyl reading proteins
Lucas Dillard
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Main Adviser: Twomey
Research interests: Structure and assembly of tight junctions
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.
Paul Meneses
Email: [email protected]
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 (she/her)
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Characterizing metamorphic proteins by NMR
Year 6
Anna Andrick
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Investigating coupling between domains in Adenylate Kinase
Edgar Manriquez-Sandoval
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Fried
Research interests: Identifying protein-protein interaction with crosslinking mass spectrometry
Andrea Ori
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Fleming
Research interests: Thermodynamic characterization of outer membrane proteins using NMR
Martin Yepes
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Tracking the in vivo dynamics of lytic transglycosylases
Year 7
Franklin Aviles
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Ha
Research interests: Exploring the kinetics and dynamics of Rad51 DNA repair protein in telomeres
Fran Harris
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Investigating chromosome organization and gene expression in E. coli
Amanda Qu
Email: [email protected]
Main adviser: Nikolova
Research interests: Biophysical investigations of allostery in consensus designed enzymes
Year 8
Sarah Brantley
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Characterization of dynamic disorder in enzymes using NMR spectroscopy
Amy Fernandez
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Berger
Research interests: Structural and mechanistic studies of prokaryotic DNA replication initiation
Year 10
Arman Siddiqui
Email: [email protected]
Main Advisor: Berger
Research Interests: Structural and mechanistic study into type IIA topoisomerase energy transduction capabilities