Graduate Students

Research Interests: Understanding the regulation of neuronal metabolism at synapses in C. elegans

Research Interests: Epigenomics in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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

Research Interests: Computational Physics

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

Research Interests: I am interested in system neuroscience, exploring how animals extract information from the complex environments, and how they use this information to guide their behaviors

Research Interests: Optimal strategies for olfactory navigation across diverse environments

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: Computational neuroscience

Research Interests: How groups of neurons perform computations

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

Research Interests: Active Matter, Self-Organized-Criticality, Non-equilibrium Dynamics, and Biomaterials

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: Studying the TNFa/IL-10 dynamics as it pertains to cell-to-cell communication and spatial patterning of macrophages in inflammation.

Research Interests: Chromatin organization and dynamics

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: Combing through large datasets to better understand living systems

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: Spatially resolved cellular senescence in human liver and lymphnode

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: Transport phenomena in complex environments

Research Interests: Computational modeling of proteins

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 systems biology at large, as well as mechanical signatures in tumor immunobiology

Research Interests: Enhanced particle delivery towards biofilm

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: The bridge between Biology, BioPhysics, Thermodynamics and Fluid mechanics.

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 synapses

Research Interests: My research focuses on exploring machine learning and medical imaging, particularly on developing advanced deep learning models for the processing, denoising and resolution improvement of neuroimaging data.

Research Interests: Stochastic thermodynamics and information theory applied to biological systems

Research Interests: One of the research areas I’m considering is applying molecular simulations to rare events biological systems.

Research Interests: Tissue Engineering and Biomechanics

Research Interests: I am interested in learning how to model and simulate living systems and find applications of the knowledge obtained

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

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

Research Interests: Developing diagnostic/therapeutic methods using nucleic acids and small-molecules

Research Interests: Role of particle deformability in glassy dynamics and emergent mechanical properties.

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

Research interest: I am interested in using computational techniques to study the interaction between neurons.

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: Visual Neuroscience

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

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.