These graduate students are part of the Jenkins Biophysics Program. Students of the Program in Molecular Biophysics can be found on the PMB website.

grad student

Harry Hwang

Year: 1

Potential Research Interests: Single-molecule methods

grad student

Yusui Li

Year: 1

Potential Research Interests: Signals and information processing, intra-and inter-cellularly

Kian Mavalwala

Kian Mavalwala

Year: 1

Potential Research Interests: Cell signaling, protein dynamics, mathematical modeling

grad student

Yuntong Zhu

Year: 1

Potential Research Interests: Computational Biophysics and molecular simulation

grad student

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

grad student

Chloe Kang

Year: 2

Lab: He

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

Mariia Kryvoruchko

Mariia Kryvoruchko

Year: 2

Lab: Camley

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

grad student

Ruizhe Li

Year: 2

Lab: Huang

Research Interests: Protein structures, single molecule techniques

grad student

Derin Tanrioven

Year: 2

Lab: Bowman

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

Gabriel

Gabriel Jiménez Avalos

Year: 3

Lab: Bowman

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

Richard Yang

Richard Yang

Year: 3

Lab: Zhang

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

Iryna Chelepis

Iryna Chelepis

Year: 4

Lab: Bowman

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of chromatin remodelers

Jingzhou Hao

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

Jimin Kang

Year: 4

Lab: Ha

Research Interests: Developing sequencing techniques and analyzing sequencing data

TianTian Shang

Tiantian Shang

Year: 4

Lab: Ha

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

Soumya Behera

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

Adip Jhaveri

Year: 5

Lab: Johnson

Research Interests: Quantifying protein-protein interactions using MD simulations

Meera Joshi

Meera Joshi

Year: 5

Lab: Myong

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

Sushil

Sushil Pangeni

Year: 5

Lab: Ha

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

Mankun Sang

Mankun Sang

Year: 5

Lab: Johnson

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

Qilan Wei

Qilan Wei

Year: 5

Lab: Woodson

Research Interests: The impact of nucleoside modifications on ribosome assembly

Anson Dang

Anson Dang

Year: 6

Lab: Xiao

Research Interests: Characterization of membrane and periplasmic proteins

Yingda Ge

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

Lucas Shen

Year: 6

Lab: Fleming

Research Interests: Chaperone function and membrane protein folding

Wilson Sun

Wilson Sun

Year: 6

Lab: Woodson

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

Tom Zhang

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

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

Ting-Wei Liao

Year: 7

Lab: Ha