Ismail Ahmed (matriculated 2012)
B.S., City College of New York, 2011 (Biochemistry)
Sandya Ajith (matriculated 2009)
B.S., Drexel University, 2008 ( Biomedical Engineering)
Investigating the mechanism by which CELF2 regulates LEF1 alternative splicing in T-cells (Dr. Kristen Lynch)
Adam Akl (matriculated 2009)
B.S., University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 2009 (Pharmacology/Toxicology)
Systems biology of autophagy signaling in melanoma therapy resistance (Dr. David Speicher)
Stephen Artim (VMD/PhD; matriculated Spring 2009)
B.S., Haverford College, 2004 (Biology/Biochemistry)
Regulation and signaling specificity between the Trk family of receptor tyrosine kinases (Dr. Mark Lemmon)
Eric Babiash (matriculated 2010)
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010 (Chemistry/Biochemistry)
Structural intermediates in the biogenesis of spliceosomal snRNPs in minimal, model organisms (Dr. Gideon Dreyfuss)
Atrish Bagchi (matriculated 2011)
B.A., Princeton University, 2010 (Chemistry)
Allosteric regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases in the Epidermal Growth Factor receptor (ErbB/HER) family (Drs. Kathryn Ferguson and Mark Lemmon)
Edward Ballister (matriculated 2007)
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2006 (Chemical Biology)
Investigating mechanisms of fidelity in chromosome segregation (Dr. Michael Lampson)
Nicholas Bessman (matriculated 2007)
B.S., Iowa State University, 2006 (Biochemistry)
Modes of ligand-binding and activation by ErbB receptors (Dr. Mark Lemmon)
Christopher Bialas (matriculated 2011)
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 2010 (Molecular Biology)
The design of fully synthetic flavoproteins (Dr. P. Leslie Dutton)
Jeffrey Carey (VMD/PhD – matriculated Spring 2013)
MSEChE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007 (Chemical Engineering)
BMA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007 (Music Composition)
Abigail Cember (matriculated 2013)
B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2013 (Biochemistry)
Qing (Helen) Chen (matriculated 2008)
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2008 (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Regulation of hepatic lipid metabolism and how it's disrupted in type II diabetes (Dr. Morris Birnbaum)
Ni-Ting Chiou (matriculated 2009)
B.S., National Tsing Hua University, 2004 (Biological Science)
M.S., National Yang-Ming University, 2006 ( Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Mechanism of the cis-regulatory sequence, exonic splicing silencer (ESS1), in repressing spliceosome assembly (Dr. Kristen Lynch)
Rachelle (Shelly) Crescenzi (matriculated 2009)
B.S., University of Delaware, 2009 (Physics & Astronomy)
MRI characterization of neurofibrillary tangle development in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (Drs. Ravi Reddy and Virginia Lee)
Robert Culik (matriculated 2008)
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 2008 (Biochemistry)
Methods for and examples of complex folding dynamics (Dr. Feng Gai)
Devin Dersh (matriculated 2008)
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008 (Chemistry)
Functional overlap in quality control pathways of the endoplasmic reticulum (Dr. Yair Argon)
Catherine DeBrosse (matriculated 2011)
B.S., Temple University, 2010 (Biophysics)
(Dr. Ravinder Reddy)
Morgan DeSantis (matriculated 2008)
B.A. The College of Wooster, 2005 (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology)
Structure and mechanism of Hsp104 (Dr. James Shorter)
Valentina Dimitrova (matriculated 2012)
B.A., Agnes Scott College, 2009 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Kathryn Blakey Dupont (matriculated 2007)
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 2007 (Biochemistry)
Folding and diffusion dynamics of membrane-binding peptides on model membranes (Dr. Feng Gai)
Nathan Ennist (matriculated 2009)
B.A., Emory University, 2009 (Physics,)
B.S., Emory University, 2009 (Chemistry)
Metal binding and photoactivatable electron transfer in a de novo-designed protein (Dr. P. Leslie Dutton)
Gozde Eskici (matriculated 2012)
B.S., Istanbul Technical University, 2008 (Molecular Biology and Genetics)
M.S., Koc University, 2010 (Computational Science and Engineering)
Meilin Fernandez Garcia (matriculated 2012)
B.S., University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus, 2012 (Chemistry)
Bryan Fry (matriculated 2009)
B.A., Pomona College, 1997 (Physics)
M.S., U. Wisconsin, Madison, 1999 (Mechanical Engineering)
Designed amphiphilic proteins for transmembrane electron transfer (Drs. P. Leslie Dutton and Cecilia Tommos)
Carlos Gay-Antaki (matriculated 2004)
B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004 (Cell and Developmental Biology)
Axonal transport of lysosomal enzymes and engineered lysosomal enzymes in the mouse CNS (Dr. John Wolfe)
Samuel Getchell (matriculated 2008)
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 2005 (Chemistry)
M.S., Yale University., 2008 (Music)
Impact of hypoxia on tumor dormancy (Dr. Lewis Chodosh)
Gabriel Gonzalez (matriculated 2008)
B.A., University of Texas, Austin, 2008 (Biomedical Engineering)
Structural search engine for Protein Data Bank (Dr. William DeGrado)
Lucie Guo (MD/PhD, matriculated 2012)
B.A., Harvard University, 2010 (Biochemical Sciences)
(Dr. Ben Black)
Kyle Harpole (matriculated 2008)
B.S., University of Iowa, 2008 (Biochemistry)
Conformational entropy of protein-drug binding (Dr. A. Joshua Wand)
Elizabeth Higbee (matriculated 2012)
B.A., Syracuse University, 2009 (Music)
B.S., Syracuse University, 2009 (Biochemistry)
Yu-San Huoh (matriculated 2006)
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2006 (Molecular Cell Biology)
Investigating the interaction between E3-Ubiquitin ligase Pellino and its substrates (Dr. Kathryn Ferguson)
Peter Huwe (matriculated 2009)
B.S., Mississippi College, 2009 (Chemistry Medical Sciences & Research Biology)
Understanding kinase activation of ALK in neuroblastoma patients (Dr. Ravi Radhakrishnan)
Earl (Joe) Jordan (matriculated 2011)
B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 2011 (Biochemistry, Computational Mathematics)
Understanding cancer driver mutations (Dr. Ravi Radhakrishnan)
Christine Jorge (matriculated 2011)
B.S., State University of New York at Albany, 2011 (Human Biology/Chemistry)
Kelly Karch (matriculated 2012)
B.S., Franklin and Marshall College, 2011 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Vignesh Kasinath (matriculated 2008)
B.Tech., 2008, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2008 (Chemical Engineering)
New methods to quantitate entropic contributions to protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions
(Dr. S. Walter Englander)
Huiguang Li (matriculated 2009)
B.S., Hebei University, 1993 (Biology)
M.S., Peking University, 1997 (Biophysics)
Structural and biochemical studies of the poxvirus resolvase (Dr. Gregory Van Duyne)
Enrique Lin Shiao (matriculated 2013)
B.S.,
University of Technology, Munich, 2011 (Engineeering Physics)
M.S., University of Technology, Munich, 2013 (Biophysics)
Lisa Lippert (matriculated 2008)
B.S., University of Washington, 2007 (Biochemistry)
Single molecule studies of dynein force generation mechanism (Dr. Yale Goldman)
Monica Liu (M.D./Ph.D., matriculated 2013)
B.S., M.S., Yale University, 2011(Biology)
Glennis Logsdon (matriculated 2011)
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2011 (Biochemistry)
(Dr. Ben Black)
Korrie Mack (matriculated 2013)
B.S., Syracuse University, 2013 (Biochemistry)
Robert Magin (matriculated 2012)
B.A., Northwestern University, 2012 (Biology)
Joshua Mancini (matriculated 2011)
B.S., Wittenberg University, 2007 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Engineering synthetic proteins to perform light harvesting for novel in vivo function (Dr. P. Leslie Dutton)
Tomoyasu (Tomo) Mani (matriculated 2009)
B.S., University of Texas, Dallas, 2008 (Biochemistry)
Magnetically controlled optical probes for resolution enhanced optical imaging (Dr. Sergei Vinogradov)
Bryan Marques (matriculated 2011)
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2011 (Biochemistry)
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 2011 (Chemistry)
(Dr. A. Joshua Wand)
Nicole Martinez-Gonzalez (matriculated 2009)
B.S., University of Puerto RIco - Mayaguez ,2009 (Industrial Biotechnology)
Signal-induced alternative splicing inT-cell activation and development
(Dr. Kristen Lynch)
Nataline Meinhardt (matriculated 2008)
B.A., Arizona State University, 2007 (Biochemistry)
Design of inhibitors and probes for use in the investigation of the calcium dependent protease calpain (Dr. Doron Greenbaum)
Charlie Ye Mo (matriculated 2010)
B.A., Swarthmore College, 2010 (Biochemistry)
Understanding and targeting the diversity-generating enzyme, LexA, in pathogens (Dr. Rahul Kohli)
Kathleen Molnar (matriculated 2007)
B.S., Princeton University, 2004 (Chemical Engineering)
Structural studies of bacterial two-component signaling mechanisms (Dr. William DeGrado)
Nisha Ninan (matriculated Summer 2005)
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2001 (Biochemistry)
Biochemical and structural studies of the tudor domain of SMN (Dr. Gregory Van Duyne)
Evan O'Brien (matriculated 2012)
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 2012 (Biochemistry and Chemistry)
Mara Olenick (matriculated 2013)
B.S., Kings College, 2013 (Chemistry/Biology)
Jin Park (matriculated 2008)
B.S., Universitiy of California, Berkeley, 2006 (Molecular and Cell Biology)
Reevaluation of psuedokinase CCK4
(Dr. Mark Lemmon)
Jarrett Remsberg (matriculated 2011)
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011 (Chemical-Biological Engineering and Biology)
(Dr. Mitchell Lazar)
Cory Rice (matriculated 2011)
B.S., Oakland University, 2011 (Biochemistry)
Elucidating the role of human CTC1 at the telomeres (Dr. Emmanuel Skordalakes)
Alec Ricciuti (matriculated 2009)
B.S., Messiah College, 2009 (Biology & Mathematics)
Conformation-, function-, and folding-correlated local backbone dynamics of large proteins (Dr. S. Walter Englander)
Michael (Dan) Ricketts (matriculated 2010)
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010 (Chemistry/Biochemistry Option)
Investigating histone H3.3 deposition by the HIRA/UBN1/CABIN1/ASF1a (HUCA) histone chaperone complex (Dr. Ronen Marmorstein)
Roland Rivera-Santiago (matriculated 2010)
B.S., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, 2010 (Biology/Chemistry)
Analysis of complementary regions of actin filament nucleators (Dr. Roberto Dominguez)
Kevan Salimian (MD/PhD, matriculated 2009)
B.S. University of Maryland - College Park, 2007 (Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)
Deciphering Aurora B-mediated mitotic error correction (Dr. Ben Black)
Jane Schulte (matriculated 2013)
B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2011 (Biochemistry)
Emily Schutsky (matriculated 2012)
B.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Molly Sheehan (matriculated 2008)
B.S., Haverford College, 2007 (Biology/Biochemistry)
Synthetic models of biological reactive oxygen species production (Dr. P. Leslie Dutton)
Deborah Shroder (matriculated 2010)
B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2010 (Biochemistry)
Single molecule studies linking conformation to motility in myosin classes (Dr. Yale Goldman)
Carrie Sims (matriculated 2011)
B.A., Stanford University, 1990 (Human Biology)
M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1993 (Health and Medical Science)
M.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1995
(Dr. Joseph Baur)
David Slochower (matriculated 2007)
A.B., Kenyon College, 2007 (Physics)
Simulations of membrane electrostatics (Dr. Paul Janmey)
Evan Smoak (matriculated 2010)
B.S., Fordham University, 2010 (Chemistry)
Dissecting transgenerational epigenetic propagation of centromere identity (Drs. Ben Black and Michael Lampson)
Matthew A. Sochor (matriculated 2008)
B.S., Cornell University, 2006 (Applied and Engineering Physics)
Allosteric potential of the lac repressor (Dr. Mitchell Lewis)
Lee Solomon (matriculated 2006)
B.A./M.S., State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006 (Biological Sciences)
Modulation of oxygen chemistry and heme binding in synthetic proteins (Dr. P. Leslie Dutton)
Shufei (Sophie) Song (matriculated 2012)
B.S., China Agricultural University, 2010 (Biological Sciences)
B.S., Purdue University, 2012 (Biochemistry)
Michael Soo (matriculated 2009)
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2007 (Chemistry and Political Science)
Defining the Hsp104 folding reservoir: novel prions and toxic, intrinsially aggregation-prone proteins (Dr. James Shorter)
Matthew Stetz (matriculated 2009)
B.S., Haverford College, 2008 (Chemistry)
Protein dynamics and allostery (Dr. A. Joshua Wand)
Elizabeth Sweeny (matriculated 2007)
B.S., Loyola University, 2007 (Biochemistry)
Mechanism and structure of Hsp104 (Dr. James Shorter)
Daniel Miklos Szantai-Kis (matriculated 2013)
Diploma in Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2012
Matthew Thompson (matriculated 2013)
B.S., Kent State University, 2012 (Biotechnology)
James Townsend (matriculated 2012)
B.A., University of Chicago, 2012 (Biology)
Bengi Turegun (matriculated 2010)
B.S., Queen's University, 2010 (Biochemistry)
Biophysical studies of nuclear actin-related proteins (Dr. Roberto Dominguez)
Scott Ugras (matriculated 2010)
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2010 (Molecular Biology/Biochemistry)
Identification and characterization of novel alpha-synuclein conformers in Parkinson's Disease (Dr. Harry Ischiropoulos)
Benjamin Walters (matriculated 2007)
B.S., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 2006 (Biochemistry/Genetics)
Folding pathways of large, multiple domain proteins (Dr. S. Walter Englander)
John Welsh (matriculated 2011)
B.S., Virginia Institute of Technology, 2009 (Biological Sciences)
M.S., Virginia Institute of Technology, 2010 (Cell and Molecular Biology)
(Drs. Scott Diamond and Lawrence Brass)
Sarah Welsh (matriculated 2013)
B.S., Westminster College, 2013 (Biochemistry)
Samuel Wein (matriculated 2012)
B.A., Earlham College, 2011 (Biology and Computer Science)
Laura Williams (matriculated 2010)
B.A., Scripps College, 2010 (Biology-Chemistry/Physics)
Temporal mechanisms regulating gene expression during embryogenesis (Dr. John Murray)
Michael Woody (matriculated 2012)
B.S., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2010 (Physics)
Zhengyi (Neo) Wu (matriculated 2009)
B.S., Nanjing University, 2007 (Chemistry)
M.S., Nanjing University, 2009 ( Inorganic Biological Chemistry)
Towards understanding the molecular mechanism of receptor tyrosine kinases (Dr. Mark Lemmon)
Christopher Yarosh (matriculated 2010)
B.S., University of Scranton, 2010 (Biochemistry)
Regulation of splicing factor PSF in response to T-cell stimulation (Dr. Kristen Lynch)
Zhenyu Zhao (matriculated 2011)
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2011 (Biochemistry)
M.S., University of Pennsyvania, 2011 (Chemistry)
(Dr. P. Leslie Dutton)