Graduate Students

Research Interests: Understanding host/viral interactions through structural biology.

Research Interests: I am interested in heterogeneity in cell populations, signal transduction, and metabolism.

Research Interests: My research is focused on microscopy development for cell biology applications

Research Interests: Exploring solutions to treating traumatic brain injuries using nanomaterials and neural engineering techniques

Research Interests: My thesis focuses on determining the biochemical and biophysical properties that make ctenophore bodies gelatinous.

Research Interests: Developing bioinformatic tools to enable mechanistic investigations of gene expression regulation

Research Interests: I study how human feedback can help improve robot learning

Research Interests: Emergence of timescales and synchronization in living systems

Research Interests: Neural dynamical modeling

Research Interests: I am interested in characterizing the heterogeneity of tumor-associated macrophages in the immune response against melanoma

Research Interests: Pan-Expansion Microscopy (pan-ExM) and connectomics

Research Interests: Tailoring laser speckle statistics for imaging applications

Research Interests: Viral RNA structure and function

Research Interests: My research is on targeting therapeutics to the endothelial cells of the liver during ex vivo perfusion

Research Interests: Metal mediated protein assembly in squids

Research Interests: I am interested in uncovering the functional roles of lncRNAs during cancer development

Research Interests: I am interested in electron and x-ray diffraction methodology for the characterization of complex biomaterials such as self-assembling proteins and polysaccharides in and out of their native environment

Research Interests: Viral RNA structure and function

Research Interests: Insect olfactory navigation as a framework for understanding neural computations and decision making.

Research Interests: I work on a model of mammalian hearing that uses self-organized criticality to tune the cochlea and then examine the resulting eigenmode structure.

Research Interests: Regulatory sequences in DNA which might contribute to human-specific phenotypes during brain development.

Research Interests: Structure and function of long noncoding RNAs

Research Interests: What are the key ingredients required for the stiction-like behavior observed in active muscle tissue?

Research Interests: My research interests include protein misfolding and aggregation, specifically examining how proteins critical for tumor suppression and nuclear structure may lose or change their function by forming amyloid-like fibrils due to mutations and aging.

Research Interests: I am interested in the cell nucleus, in particular its size and shape control in response to environmental shocks.

Research Interests: Computational models of tissue development and repair

Research Interests: Collective migration of bacteria

Research Interests: I’m interested in understanding how cells respond to mechanical forces

Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience

Research Interests: Understanding the outcomes of genetic interactions using graph neural network

Research Interests: Neural circuits in flies

Research Interests: My research is focused on elucidating the complex mechanisms of invasive cancers using spatial multi-omics technologies.

Research Interests: Computational biophysics with a focus in molecular dynamics and modeling

Research Interests: Studying nucleocytoplasmic transport via DNA-origami-based nanopores

Research Interests: I’m currently interested in applying techniques from statistical mechanics to understand biological systems

Research Interests: NGS-based liquid biopsy methods for early diagnosis of cancer

Research Interests: I am interested in machine learning and computational modeling of biological systems

Research Interests: Spatial multiomic analysis of tumor microenvironment

Research Interests: My current research interests are (1) engineering bacterial translation machinery and (2) building a bottom up understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind biomaterial performance.

Research Interests: PET imaging for Drug Development and Targeted Therapy

Research Interests: Identifying and characterizing Transcription Factor networks that tune macrophage functional heterogeneity

Research Interests: Protein aggregation, computational biophysics, advanced sampling

Research Interests: Computational modeling of proteins

Research Interests: Transport phenomena in complex environments

Research Interests: I am interested in soft matter, biophysics, and emergent phenomena.

Research Interests: My current work uses wavefront shaping of light to study the physics of waves in complex media, including biological systems

Research Interests: I’m interested in the computational modeling of the geometry and mechanics of cellular processes, most notably cell division.

Research Interests: Neuronal morphogenesis, cilia motility

Research Interests: Statistical Physics of Non-Equilibrium Systems, Pattern Formation, Langevin Dynamics

Research Interests: I am interested in tunable biomaterials, specifically endowing novel properties in spider silks for sustainability and medical applications

Research Interests: My research focuses on unraveling the self-assembly behavior of squid eye tissue to gain insights into its unique structural and functional properties

Research Interests: I am interested in computationally modeling protein-protein interactions and assessing their quality to create robust scoring functions with deep-learning techniques.

Research Interests: Studying non-equilibrium dynamics in biological systems

Research Interests: Disorder and amorphous structures, granular matter, nonlinear systems

Research Interests: Decellularized muscoskeletal hydrogels for tissue regeneration

Research Interests: I’m interested in understanding the behavior of biological systems with computational models.

Research Interests: My research explores the crossroad of structural biology and artificial intelligence, with a special focus on employing advanced neural network architectures, particularly transformers, for computational protein, vaccine, and drug design and discovery.

Research Interests: I am interested in how hormones influence maternal and sex-based immunity.

Research Interests: I am interested in computational modeling of proteins, particularly structural response to amino acid mutations.

Research Interests: Enhanced particle delivery towards biofilm

Research Interests: Exploring the relationship between structure and function through engineered clustered neuronal networks, with a focus in controlling network organization and network activity through the use of optogenetics.

Research Interests: Computational studies of the biophysical properties of proteins

Research Interests: Spreading dynamics of cell aggregates

Research Interests: Immune response variability and dynamics

Research Interests: Molecular Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Simulations, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Quantum Computing

Research Interests: Understanding and modeling neural population dynamics using RNNs and reinforcement learning

Research Interests: I’m interested in utilizing advanced computational methods to analyze spatial multi-omics data and decode cellular senescence.

Research Interests: Understanding the role of gene amplification in the pathophysiology of ovarian cancer and pioneering a precision medicine platform for ovarian cancers with gene amplification as a promising alternative to conventional therapies.

Research Interests: Using spatial omics technology to explore senescence and cancers.

Research Interests: I am interested in understanding the dynamics of fast-folding peptides in cells via Fast Relaxation Imaging.

Research Interests: I am interested in applying tools from physics to understand neural systems and behavior specifically, and biological phenomena more broadly.

Research Interests: Topological Data Analysis and Deep Learning for macromolecular structures

Research Interests: Understanding motor behavior through the use of biophysically-based neuron and musculoskeletal models

Research Interests: I study how living systems process information using statistical physics and information theory

Research Interests: My research focuses on the homeostatic cell turnover in the mammalian intestine. I aim to understand how tissue architecture, cellular forces, and molecular mechanisms drive active cell motion dynamics, such as collective migration and cell extrusion.

Research Interests: Machine learning, biomolecule design, quantum computing

Research Interests: Evolution of inter-cellular coomunication machinery related to environmental sensation and whole-body coordination.

Research Interests: Deep learning models for the processing, denoising, and resolution enhancement of neuroimaging data.

Research Interests: Modeling tissue mechanics during development

Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how the need for information processing results in design principles for biological systems

Research Interests: Application of molecular simulations and advanced sampling techniques to rare events in biological systems

Research Interests: Underlying consequences of Titin truncations in EHTs

Research Interests: Elucidating nature’s fascinating optical systems using hyperuniformity as a tool

Research Interests: Interpreting complex biological systems through dynamical modeling and statistical approaches

Research Interests: computational models of protein folding

Research Interests: Establishing cellular and tissue engineered models of human cardiovascular disease to elucidate causative mechanisms and identify therapeutic interventions

Research Interests: anti-cancer immune responses in Melanoma

Research Interests: Effects of particle geometry on glass transition

Research Interests: I am interested in applying statistical physics and information theory tools to understand biological systems.

Research interest: I am generally interested in how bacteria navigates through chemical gradients and how is sensing and motor regulation shape their behavior.

Research Interests: I am interested in the intersection between neuroscience and physics

Research Interests: Soft Matter Mechanics

Research Interests: I am interested in examining how bacteria adapt to random fluctuations during chemotaxis, using the principles of information theory and stochastic processes.

Research Interests: I am interested in using computational and experimental biophysics approaches to understand protein evolution and folding

Research Interests: I am interested in how cells sense and respond to their environment, particularly in the context of cell-cell interactions.

Research Interests: I am interested in using machine learning techniques to understand visual inference in fruit flies

Research Interests: The engineering of cells and mouse models for developing effective cancer immunotherapy

Research Interests: Clinical NLP methods

Research Interests: I am interested in multiplex genome editing of non-model organisms and protein engineering using non-standard amino acids.

Research Interests: Protein-Protein Interaction, Biological Networks, Machine Learning

Research Interests: My research focuses on studying and engineering programmable active matter—systems of programmable agents that replicate the collaborative behaviors observed in biological systems. By leveraging advancements in artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning, I aim to design agents that self-organize into materials with desired properties or mimic biological phenomena.

Research Interests: I am passionate about advancing the development of ‘off-the-shelf’ universal cells for tissue engineering, cell therapy, and translational applications. With a strong focus on creativity and innovation, I thrive on tackling challenges and thinking outside the box to devise impactful solutions that drive progress in the biomedical field.

Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how regulatory feedback mechanisms and cell-cell heterogeneity shape immune responses in complex contexts, such as the tumor microenvironment, using a systems immunology approach.

Research Interests: Scientific Machine learning (for Neuroscience and Physics) and Neural Dynamics

Research Interests: Deformable particle model, soft matter

Research Interests: My research focuses on the integration of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with simultaneous multimodal imaging techniques to capture a more comprehensive picture of brain function and dynamics.

Research Interests: Structural study of membrane proteins integrating computational modeling and cryoEM

Research Interests: I am interested in imaging methods for functional connectomics, as well as modeling methods in computational neuroscience

Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics, Colloidal Science, Microrheology

Research Interests: I’m interested in measuring and explaining cancer cell phenotypic plasticity, especially in Glioblastoma.

Research Interests: exploring the structure and function of Flavivirus RNAs and their protein binding partner

Research Interests: how neuronal connectivity gives rise to cognitive phenomena such as learning and reward-based behavior