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 |
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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 |
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Thompson, Kiara | She/Her/Hers | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - Protein structure and design engineering for therapeutic applications |
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Tran, Aaron | They/Them/Theirs | 1 | Currently completing coursework & rotations | Thesis Topic - TBD Interests - RNA structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interactions |
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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 |