Students

Sara Ali

Research Interest: Identifying Distant Homologs of the ncRNA Lep5

Lauren Benoodt, M.S.

Research Interest: Extending Pathways for Mechanistic Predictions from Large Scale Data

Michael Bryan, M.S.

Research Interest: Integration of Silicon Nitride Photonic Microring Resonators for Sensing with On-chip Spectrometry to Detect Biologically Relevant Protein Targets in Serum

Joseph Bucukovski

Research Interest: Developing a tendon-on-a-chip model with integrated photonic biosensors to detect inflammatory biomarkers in situ

Chapin Cavender, M.S.

Research Interest: Capturing the influence of solvent and local structure in a fixed-charge force field for RNA

Sai Chavali, M.S.

Research Interest: Arginine Forks Are a Widespread Motif to Recognize Phosphate Backbones and Guanine Nucleobases in the RNA Major Groove

Wesley Chiang

Research Interest: Using STORM to Track the Neuroinvasive Potential of SARS-CoV-2 Through the Blood-Brain Barrier Mediated by a Bradykinin Storm

Xueyang He

Research Interest: Modeling the Effects of Cancer-Associated Spliceosome Mutations and Identifying Driving Intronic Features Using Deep-Learning Neural Networks

Gabrielle Kosoy

Research Interest: Whole virus versus surface protein, what is the antigenicity?

Ashwin Kumar

Research Interest: Biological factors and genetic programs that drive differentiation and maintenance of Lung CD8+ Tissue Resident Memory cells

Debanjana Maji

Research Interest: Structure and Function of the Disease-Relevant Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor U2AF2

Abhinav Mittal

Research Interest: Inferring RNA Secondary Structure from Multiple Sequence Alignment

Mukta Palshikar

Research Interest: Executable models of pathways built using single-cell RNA-seq data reveal atherosclerosis-associated signaling dysregulations

Ashlin Poruthoor

Research Interest: Estimating free energy landscape of phase separation in the lipid bilayer

Emily Robinson

Research Interest: Cysteine Thioesters as a Potential Treatment for Opioid Overdose: Insights from Molecular Dynamics

Yoshita Srivastava

Research Interest: Two riboswitches with identical binding pockets show different tolerances to equivalent mutations and varied promiscuities for cognate effector binding

Daniel Steiner, M.S.

Research Interest: Antigen Microarrays: Entering the COVID Fray