May 8, 2026 – Congratulations to the Barrick Lab’s newest PhD, Soumya Prakash Behera, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis: “Determinants of Cooperativity in Protein Folding and Function: From Repeat-Protein Thermodynamics to Potts-Guided Enzyme Design“.

Since joining the Department of Biophysics lab at Johns Hopkins University in 2020, Soumya has been an integral part of our research community. We are incredibly proud of his hard work and his contributions to the field of biophysics. Congratulations, Dr. Behera!