Leadership and Staff
The Jenkins Biophysics Program is taught by our outstanding biophysics faculty, but some of our faculty and staff specifically support the Jenkins Program.
Jessica Appel
Sr. Administrative Manager
Training Faculty
- Doug Barrick
- Gregory Bowman
- Brian Camley
- Karen Fleming
- Bertrand García-Moreno
- Margaret Johnson
- Juliette Lecomte
- Evgenia Nikolova
- Sarah Woodson
- Yaojun Zhang
- William Huang (Starting Feb 2024)
Students
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
Yuan Lou
Year: 6
Lab: Woodson Lab
Research Interests: Characterization of gene regulation by ribozyme during transcription
Ting-Wei Liao
Year: 6
Lab: Ha Lab
Anson Dang
Year: 5
Lab: Fleming Lab
Research Interests: Characterization of membrane and periplasmic proteins
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
Wilson Sun
Year: 5
Lab: Woodson Lab
Research Interests: Identifying factors that determine the efficiency of co-transcriptional assembly of ribosome
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
Adip Jhaveri
Year: 4
Lab: Johnson Lab
Research Interests: Quantifying protein-protein interactions using MD simulations
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
Sushil Pangeni
Year: 4
Lab: Ha Lab
Research Interests: Understanding the interaction of Replication proteins with DNA using single molecule fluorescence
Meera Joshi
Year: 4
Lab: Myong Lab
Research Interests: How G-Quadruplexes, a nucleic acid secondary structure, can affect translation processes
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
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
Gabriel Jiménez Avalos
Year: 2
Lab: Bowman Lab
Richard Yang
Year: 2
Lab: Zhang Lab
Smriti Chhibber
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: TDB
Chloe Liang Kang
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Gene expression regulation, chromatin remodeling by cryo-EM
Mariia Kryvoruchko
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Theoretical biophysics, folding, energy landscape, dynamical systems in biology
Ruizhe Li
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: Protein structures, single molecule techniques
Derin Tanrioven
Year: 1
Potential Research Interests: TBD