Students

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 and Spectrometry to Detect Biologically Relevant Protein Targets

Chapin Cavender, M.S.

Research Interest: Capturing the Influence of Structural Context and Solvent in Fixed-charge Force Fields 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

Gabrielle Kosoy

Research Interest: Using sensor arrays to understand the immune response to flu: The human immune system response to influenza virus is complex and thus not well understood. I am using Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry (AIR) technology to create arrays of flu surface proteins as well as arrays of whole virus to understand the antibody response to antigen presented in a three-dimensional context.

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: Identifying common features of piRNA precursors using computational and biophysical approaches

Mukta Palshikar

Research Interest: Executable models of pathways built using single-cell RNAseq data reveal immune cell heterogeneity in people living with HIV and atherosclerosis

Ashlin Poruthoor

Research Interest: Tracking ultrafast protein dynamics of rhodopsin on photon activation

Yoshita Srivastava

Research Interest: Structure and effector-binding analysis of a PreQ1-III riboswitch suggests a fold that is tolerant to binding pocket mutations

Daniel Steiner, M.S.

Research Interest: Development of multi-use photonic sensors for Point-of-Care diagnostics