| Picture | Student | Pronouns | Year | Lab | Research Project |
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 | Crowder, Max | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Computational modeling of chemical biophysics in immunological systems |
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| Fortunato, Gabe | He/Him/His | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Understanding thermodynamics of protein folding |
| Lee, Nathan | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Protein dynamics, folding, thermodynamics, energy landscapes |
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| Nguyen, Justin | He/Him/His | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Protein structures, function, and dynamics; protein design; combining computational and experimental methods |
| Thompson, Kiara | She/Her/Hers | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Protein structure and design engineering for therapeutic applications |
| Tran, Aaron | They/Them/Theirs | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - RNA structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interactions |
| Vogt, Jeffrey | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - RNA structural biology and computational biology |
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 | Wollensak, David | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Conserved structures in RNA and their roles in controlling translation, differentiation, and the immune system. |
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 | Botterbusch, Sam | 2 | Kavran | Regulation and activation of eukaryotic protein kinases | |
 | Tisdale, Garrett | 2 | Wu | Live cell imaging of translation kinetics | |
 | White, Elise | 2 | Woodson | Modeling the dynamics of Hfq-RNA interactions at an atomistic scale | |
 | Wood, Neil | 2 | Fried | Understanding aging-related loss of proteostasis | |
 | Zegans, Max | 2 | Bailey | Structural and kinetic basis of priming in the E. coli CRISPR system | |
 | Dillard, Lucas | 3 | Twomey | Structure and assembly of tight junctions | |
 | Cross, Zoe (Née Hutchinson) | 3 | Bailey | Structural studies of methyl reading proteins | |
| Nachurski, Adam | 3 | Frueh | TBD | ||
| Nesterova, Tanya | 3 | Liu | |||
| Pearce, Marie | 3 | Hilser | Characterizing metamorphic proteins by NMR | ||
 | Fabilane, Charina | 3 | Spangler | Development of antibody-cytokine fusion proteins as a therapeutic by immunoengineering | |
 | Fine, Justyn | 3 | Spangler | Developing a bispecific antibody therapeutic for cancer metastasis | |
 | Meneses, Paul | 3 | Ha | Binding and movement of proteins along nucleosomes | |
| Andrick, Anna | 4 | Hilser | Investigating coupling between domains in Adenylate Kinase | ||
| Canner, Sam | 4 | Gray | Computational modeling of glycans for molecular and immunological recognition | ||
 | Ori, Andrea | 4 | Fleming | Thermodynamic characterization of outer membrane proteins using NMR | |
| Yepes, Martin | 4 | Xiao | Tracking the in vivo dynamics of lytic transglycosylases | ||
 | Manriquez-Sandoval, Edgar | 4 | Fried | Identifying protein-protein interaction with crosslinking mass spectrometry | |
| Aviles, Franklin | 5 | Ha | Exploring the kinetics and dynamics of Rad51 DNA repair protein in telomeres | ||
| Harris, Fran | 5 | Xiao | Investigating chromosome organization and gene expression in E. coli | ||
| Park, Esther | 5 | Green | Characterizing the mechanism and proteins involved in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay using biochemistry and genomics | ||
| Rahman, Sanim | 5 | Wolberger | Structural and functional basis of methylation by arginine methyltransferases | ||
| Whitehead, Briana | 5 | Hristova | Development of Structural and Biophysical Approaches to Study RTK Mechanisms | ||
 | Qu, Amanda | 5 | Barrick | Biophysical investigations of allostery in consensus designed enzymes | |
| Brantley, Sarah | 6 | Hilser | Characterization of dynamic disorder in enzymes using NMR spectroscopy | ||
| Devlin, Taylor | 6 | Fleming | Binding of unfolded outer membrane proteins to periplasmic chaperones. | ||
| Evans, Daniel | 6 | Lau | Design of allosteric regulators of glutamate receptors | ||
| Fernandez, Amy | 6 | Berger | Structural and mechanistic studies of prokaryotic DNA replication initiation | ||
 | Hurst, Miranda | 6 | Garcia-Moreno | Characterizing conformational dynamics of proteins with buried ionizable residues using NMR spectroscopy | |
 | Nwogbaga, Ifunanya | 6 | Camley | Characterizing the relationship between spontaneous cell turning and cell polarity under perturbations of an environmental signal | |
 | Yehya, Nicolas | 5 | Xiao | Investigation of gene regulation by chromosomal topological organization in E. coli | |
| Beckett, Morgan | 7 | Bailey | Structural and functional studies of methylated DNA binding proteins | ||
| Cook, Cyril | 7 | Barrick | Thermodynamic characterization of the Notch transcription activation complex | ||
 | De La Cruz, Ana | 7 | Wu | Development of a robust fluorescence method to detect RS218 E .coliinvasion of human brain endothelial cells | |
| Lueck, Jacob | 7 | Sohn | Structural and biochemical studies of inflammasome signaling | ||
| Siddiqui, Arman | 8 | Berger | Structural and mechanistic study into type IIA topoisomerase energy transduction capabilities |
