Featured Research

The biochemical and biophysical structure of ctenophore mesoglea

Sara Siwiecki ‘25

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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (Sweeney Lab)

Left: Sara on a boat collecting samples; Right: two species of ctenophora located in the Long Island Sound

F-actin architecture governs self-organized criticality in the cytoskeleton

Zachary Gao Sun ‘25

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Physics (Murrell Lab)

Left: Zachary in the lab; Right: Fluorescence image of in vitro actin filaments

EZbakR: tools to facilitate studies of gene expression dynamics and regulation

Isaac Vock ‘25

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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (Simon Lab)

Left: Isaac Vock presenting a poster; Right: A graphical abstract of Vock's work

Non-equilibrium pattern formation in a living cell

XJ Xu ‘25

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Physics (Wu Lab)

Headshot of XJ Xu (left) fluorescence microscopy image (right)

Modeling the collective behavior of FG-Nups in the NPC by dynamic DNA nanopores

Eason Cao ‘26

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Cell Biology (C. Lin Lab)

Left: Eason working in the lab; Right: Diagram of DNA origami structure with FG-Nups

Spatial multi-omic analysis of human lymphoid tissues

Archie Enninful ‘26

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Biomedical Engineering (Fan Lab)

Left: Archie in the lab; Right: Fluorescence image of cancer tissue Archie analyzes in his research

Dynamic speckle illumination microscopy with tailored speckle statistics

SeungYun Han ‘26

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Applied Physics (Cao Lab)

Left: SeungYun working in the lab; Right: example of SeungYun's data

Effect of thermodynamic perturbations on human γD-crystallin

Arlind Kacirani ‘26

Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Haji-Akbari Lab)

Left: Arlind working at his computer in the lab; Right: structure of Structural representation of HγD-crystallin

Modeling the Mesoscale Geometry and Mechanics of Cell Division and Motility

Emmanuel Mintah ‘26

Biomedical Engineering (O’Hern Lab)

Left: Emmanuel; Right: Fluorescent image and corresponding model of MDCK cells

Motion detection in olfaction: how the fly brain encodes odor motion

Gustavo Madeira Santana ‘26

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Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (Emonet Lab)

Left: Gustavo at the microscope; Right: Fly in the virtual reality arena

Investigating non-genetic adaptation by collective migration

Lam Vo ‘26

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Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Emonet Lab)

Left: Lam in the lab, Right: Graphical abstract of Lam's research

Understanding endothelial blood flow direction sensing

Shaka X ‘26

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Biomedical Engineering (Schwartz Lab)

Left: Shaka in the lab; Right: Fluorescence imaging of actin filaments in cells under shear stress

Understanding the Mapping Between Neural Activity and Behavior

Daiyao Yi ‘26

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Electrical Engineering (Saxena Lab)

Daiyao standing in front of a whiteboard (left) and a diagram overview of her research (right)

Characterizing transcription factor networks that tune macrophage heterogeneity

Iyad Sayed Issa ‘27

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Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Miller-Jensen Lab)

Left: Iyad in the lab; Right: Schematic of how immune cells might react to signals

Wavefront Shaping of Light in Scattering Media

Rohin McIntosh ‘27

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Physics (Cao Lab)

Rohin in the lab (left) and diagrams depicting the impact of shaped wavefronts on imaging (right)

Expanding spider silk properties by incorporation of nonstandard amino acids

Maisha Prome ‘27

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Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Isaacs Lab)

Left: Maisha in the lab; Right: Spider silk

Assessing the quality of computational models of protein-protein interactions

Jake Sumner ‘27

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Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (O’Herm Lab)

Left: Jake looking at a pair of protein structure on his computer; Right: Structures of two proteins interacting in multiple conformations with the question "which structure is the actual structure"

Understanding ultrafast peptide dynamics in cells using Fast Relaxation Imaging

Raibat Sarker ‘28

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Chemistry (Davis Lab)

Left: Raibat in the lab; Right: Raibat's imaging setup can be used to image protein in vitro and in vivo