These graduate students are part of the Jenkins Biophysics Program. Students of the Program in Molecular Biophysics can be found on the PMB website.
Harry Hwang
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Single-molecule methods
Yusui Li
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Signals and information processing, intra-and inter-cellularly
Kian Mavalwala
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Cell signaling, protein dynamics, mathematical modeling
Yuntong Zhu
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Computational Biophysics and molecular simulation
Smriti Chhibber
Year: 2
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 Kang
Year: 2
Lab: He
Potential Research Interests: Gene expression regulation, chromatin remodeling by cryo-EM
Mariia Kryvoruchko
Year: 2
Lab: Camley
Potential Research Interests: Theoretical biophysics, folding, energy landscape, dynamical systems in biology
Ruizhe Li
Year: 2
Lab: Huang
Research Interests: Protein structures, single molecule techniques
Derin Tanrioven
Year: 2
Lab: Bowman
Research Interests: Folding dynamics, kinetics and regulation of macromolecular assembly/structure, single molecule techniques
Gabriel Jiménez Avalos
Year: 3
Lab: Bowman
Research Interests: Characterizing the landscape of nucleosome sliding by single molecule techniques.
Richard Yang
Year: 3
Lab: Zhang
Research Interests: Using coarse-grained simulations to model and probe the properties of biomolecular condensates
Iryna Chelepis
Year: 4
Lab: Bowman
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of chromatin remodelers
Jingzhou Hao
Year: 4
Lab: Ha
Research Interests: Reconstituting nucleosomes with an in-vivo DNA sequence and evaluating dynamics of nucleosome wrapped in the in-vivo sequence
Jimin Kang
Year: 4
Lab: Ha
Research Interests: Developing sequencing techniques and analyzing sequencing data
Tiantian Shang
Year: 4
Lab: Ha
Research Interests: Engineering an optically controllable helicase through high through-put methods
Soumya Prakash Behera
Year: 5
Lab: Barrick
Research Interests: Characterizing structure and dynamics in Notch transcription factor (CSL) and repeat proteins using NMR spectroscopy
Adip Jhaveri
Year: 5
Lab: Johnson
Research Interests: Quantifying protein-protein interactions using MD simulations
Meera Joshi
Year: 5
Lab: Myong
Research Interests: How G-Quadruplexes, a nucleic acid secondary structure, can affect translation processes
Sushil Pangeni
Year: 5
Lab: Ha
Research Interests: Understanding the interaction of Replication proteins with DNA using single molecule fluorescence
Mankun Sang
Year: 5
Lab: Johnson
Research Interests: Building a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion simulation tool
Qilan Wei
Year: 5
Lab: Woodson
Research Interests: The impact of nucleoside modifications on ribosome assembly
Anson Dang
Year: 6
Lab: Xiao
Research Interests: Characterization of membrane and periplasmic proteins
Yingda Ge
Year: 6
Lab: Myong
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: 6
Lab: Fleming
Research Interests: Chaperone function and membrane protein folding
Wilson Sun
Year: 6
Lab: Woodson
Research Interests: Identifying factors that determine the efficiency of co-transcriptional assembly of ribosome
Tom Zhang
Year: 6
Lab: Garcia-Moreno
Research Interests: Characterizing the conformational and thermodynamic consequences of buried acidic residues and buried ion-pairs in proteins
Indy Badvaram
Year: 7
Lab: Camley
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: 7
Lab: Ha