Smriti Chhibber

Year: 1

Lab: Johnson

Potential Research Interests: Applying computational methods to study problems in biophysics across different length scales and complementing it with the understanding of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics

Chloe Liang Kang

Year: 1

Potential Research Interests: Gene expression regulation, chromatin remodeling by cryo-EM

Mariia Kryvoruchko

Year: 1

Lab: Camley

Potential Research Interests: Theoretical biophysics, folding, energy landscape, dynamical systems in biology

Ruizhe Li

Year: 1

Lab: Huang

Potential Research Interests: Protein structures, single molecule techniques

Derin Tanrioven

Year: 1

Lab: Bowman

Potential Research Interests: Folding dynamics, kinetics and regulation of macromolecular assembly/structure, single molecule techniques

Gabriel Jiménez Avalos

Year: 2

Lab: Bowman Lab

Research Interests: Characterizing the landscape of nucleosome sliding by single molecule techniques.

Richard Yang

Year: 2

Lab: Zhang Lab

Research Interests: Using coarse-grained simulations to model and probe the properties of biomolecular condensates

Iryna Chelepis

Year: 3

Lab: Bowman Lab

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of chromatin remodelers

Jingzhou Hao

Year: 3

Lab: Ha Lab

Research Interests: Reconstituting nucleosomes with an in-vivo DNA sequence and evaluating dynamics of nucleosome wrapped in the in-vivo sequence 

Jimin Kang

Year: 3

Lab: Ha Lab

Research Interests: Developing sequencing techniques and analyzing sequencing data

Tiantian Shang

Year: 3

Lab: Ha Lab

Research Interests: Engineering an optically controllable helicase through high through-put methods

Soumya Prakash Behera

Year: 4

Lab: Barrick Lab

Research Interests: Characterizing structure and dynamics in Notch transcription factor (CSL) and repeat proteins using NMR spectroscopy

Adip Jhaveri

Year: 4

Lab: Johnson Lab

Research Interests: Quantifying protein-protein interactions using MD simulations

Meera Joshi

Year: 4

Lab: Myong Lab

Research Interests: How G-Quadruplexes, a nucleic acid secondary structure, can affect translation processes

Sushil Pangeni

Year: 4

Lab: Ha Lab

Research Interests: Understanding the interaction of Replication proteins with DNA using single molecule fluorescence

Mankun Sang

Year: 4

Lab: Johnson Lab

Research Interests: Building a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion simulation tool

Qilan Wei

Year: 4

Lab: Woodson Lab

Research Interests: The impact of nucleoside modifications on ribosome assembly

Anson Dang

Year: 5

Lab: Fleming Lab

Research Interests: Characterization of membrane and periplasmic proteins

Yingda Ge

Year: 5

Lab: Myong Lab

Research Interests: Using smFRET to characterize the interactions between RNA and RNA binding proteins during the process of liquid-liquid phase separation

Lucas Shen

Year: 5

Lab: Fleming Lab

Research Interests: Chaperone function and membrane protein folding

Wilson Sun

Year: 5

Lab: Woodson Lab

Research Interests: Identifying factors that determine the efficiency of co-transcriptional assembly of ribosome

Tom Zhang

Year: 5

Lab: Garcia-Moreno Lab

Research Interests: Characterizing the conformational and thermodynamic consequences of buried acidic residues and buried ion-pairs in proteins

Indy Badvaram

Year: 6

Lab: Camley Lab

Research Interests: Using models of fluctuating membranes to investigate the physical properties that influence a protein’s ability to sense membrane curvatures

Ting-Wei Liao

Year: 6

Lab: Ha Lab

Yuan Lou

Year: 6

Lab: Woodson Lab

Research Interests: Characterization of gene regulation by ribozyme during transcription