Makayla Braunlin

PhD Track: Biology

Mentor: Anuradha Janakiraman

Topic: Elucidating the role of an inner membrane protein in the maintenance of E. coli cell envelope integrity

Date Joined: 9/2021

Liliana Margent

PhD Track: Biochemistry

Mentor: Daniel Keedy

Topic: The Structure of the Striata-Enriched Tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP)

Date Joined: 11/2022

Giovanni Crump

PhD Track: Biochemistry

Mentor: Ronald Koder

Topic: Origins of the thermodynamic properties of tropoelastin

Date Joined: 9/2023

Meghan Halloran

PhD Track: Bio Medical Engineering

Mentor: Steven Nicoll

Topic: Nano Composite Hydrogels for Cancer Treatment

Date Joined: 9/2023

Gilbert Reyes

PhD Track: Biochemistry

Mentor: Zimei Bu

Topic: Binding properties of the cadherin-crenin complex at the adherens junction

Date Joined: 09/2023

Allen Sun

PhD Track: Biochemistry

Mentor: Ruth Stark

Topic: Structural biology of ligand-modulated protein-protein interactions in pain and inflammation. 

Date Joined: 09/2023

Brandon Webley

PhD Track: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 

Mentor: Mark Emerson

Topic: Characterization of cis-regulatory elements involved in rod photoreceptor formation. 

Date Joined: 03/2024

Denice Moran Ramirez

PhD Track: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Mentor: Mark Emerson

Topic: Evolutionary selection of sequence variants that control levels of transcription.  

Date Joined: 03/2024

Leah Epstein

PhD Track: Biochemistry

Mentor: Kevin Gardner (ASRC, Chem & Biochem)

Topic: Mechanistic studies of photosensory signaling pathways

Date Joined: 03/2024

Vishal Persaud

PhD Track: Biochemistry

 Mentor:   Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle

Topic:       Liqid-liquis phase separation 

Date Joined: 05/2024

Atara Israel

PhD Track: Biomedical Engineering

Mentor: Ryan William

Topic: Detection of chemotherapeutic anthracyclines using fluorescent nano sensors and machine learning-based spectral analysis.

Date Joined: 05/2024

Zoya Shifique

PhD Track: Electrical Engineering

Mentor: Yingli Tian

Topic: Segmentation in Medical images;understanding landslide causality by unifying physics

Date Joined: 05/2024

Yilam Ng Cen

PhD Track: Biology

Mentor:  Praboshika Mallikaratachy

Topic:     Ligand guided selection of RNA apatmers against CD79 receptor

Date Joined: 05/2024