Jeffrey Khau
Year 1
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Research interests: Protein structure, function, and engineering
Sho Takeshita
Year 1
Email: [email protected]
Research interests: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
Gabe Fortunato (he/him)
Year 2
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Main Adviser: Hilser
Research Interests: Understanding thermodynamics of protein folding
Nathan Lee
Year 2
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Main Adviser: Frueh
Research Interests: Protein dynamics, folding, thermodynamics, energy landscapes
Justin Nguyen (he/him)
Year 2
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Main Adviser: Barrick
Research Interests: Protein structures, function, and dynamics; protein design; combining computational and experimental methods
Kiara Thompson (she/her)
Year 2
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Main Adviser: Arroyo
Research Interests: Protein structure and design engineering for therapeutic applications
Aaron Tran (they/them)
Year 2
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research Interests: RNA structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interactions
Jeffrey Vogt
Year 2
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Main Adviser: Gray
Research Interests: RNA structural biology and computational biology
David Wollensak
Year 2
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Main Adviser: Green
Research Interests: Conserved structures in RNA and their roles in controlling translation, differentiation, and the immune system
Sam Botterbusch
Year 3
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Main Adviser: Kavran
Research interests: Regulation and activation of eukaryotic protein kinases
Garrett Tisdale
Year 3
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Wu
Research interests: Live cell imaging of translation kinetics
Elise White (she/her)
Year 3
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Main Adviser: Woodson
Research interests: Modeling the dynamics of Hfq-RNA interactions at an atomistic scale
Neil Wood
Year 3
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Main Adviser: Fried
Research interests: Understanding aging-related loss of proteostasis
Max Zegans
Year 3
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Main Adviser: Bailey
Research interests: Structural and kinetic basis of priming in the E. coli CRISPR system
Zoe Cross (Hutchinson)
Year 4
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Main Adviser: Bailey
Research interests: Structural studies of methyl reading proteins
Lucas Dillard
Year 4
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Main Adviser: Twomey
Research interests: Structure and assembly of tight junctions
Charina Fabilane
Year 4
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Spangler
Research interests: Development of antibody-cytokine fusion proteins as a therapeutic by immunoengineering
Justyn Fine
Year 4
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Spangler
Research interests: Developing a directed evolution platform for antibody discovery.
Paul Meneses
Year 4
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Ha
Research interests: Binding and movement of proteins along nucleosomes
Tanya Nesterova
Year 4
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)
Year 4
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Characterizing metamorphic proteins by NMR
Anna Andrick
Year 5
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Investigating coupling between domains in Adenylate Kinase
Sam Canner
Year 5
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Gray
Research interests: Computational modeling of glycans for molecular and immunological recognition
Edgar Manriquez-Sandoval
Year 5
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Fried
Research interests: Identifying protein-protein interaction with crosslinking mass spectrometry
Andrea Ori
Year 5
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Fleming
Research interests: Thermodynamic characterization of outer membrane proteins using NMR
Martin Yepes
Year 5
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Tracking the in vivo dynamics of lytic transglycosylases
Franklin Aviles
Year 6
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Main Adviser: Ha
Research interests: Exploring the kinetics and dynamics of Rad51 DNA repair protein in telomeres
Fran Harris
Year 6
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Investigating chromosome organization and gene expression in E. coli
Amanda Qu
Year 6
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Main adviser:
Research interests: Biophysical investigations of allostery in consensus designed enzymes
Briana Whitehead (she/her)
Year 6
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Main Adviser: Hristova
Research interests: Development of Structural and Biophysical Approaches to Study RTK Mechanisms
Sarah Brantley
Year 7
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Main Adviser: Hilser
Research interests: Characterization of dynamic disorder in enzymes using NMR spectroscopy
Amy Fernandez
Year 7
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Main Adviser: Berger
Research interests: Structural and mechanistic studies of prokaryotic DNA replication initiation
Nicolas Yehya
Year 7
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Main Adviser: Xiao
Research interests: Investigation of gene regulation by chromosomal topological organization in E.
Cyril Cook
Year 8
Email: [email protected]
Main Adviser: Barrick
Research interests: Thermodynamic characterization of the Notch transcription activation complex
Arman Siddiqui
Year 9
Main Advisor: Berger
Research Interests: Structural and mechanistic study into type IIA topoisomerase energy transduction capabilities