Leadership and Staff
The Jenkins Biophysics Program is taught by our outstanding biophysics faculty, but some of our faculty and staff specifically support the Jenkins Program.
Doug Barrick
Thomas C. Jenkins Professor in Biophysics and Chair
Gregory Bowman
Professor (and TBD role for program)
Nicole Goode
Graduate Program Coordinator
Jessica Appel
Administrative Manager
Students
Name | Year | Lab | Research |
Lior Shachaf | 6th year | Jie Xiao group | A Genome-scale Model of Supercoiling Coupled Regulation in Escherichia coli |
Basilio Cieza Huaman | 6th year | Ha lab | Using mathematical modelling and computational simulations to study phase separation |
Indy Badvarm Manjunath | 4th year | Camley Lab | Using models of fluctuating membranes to investigate the physical properties that influence a protein’s ability to sense membrane curvatures |
Yuan Lou | 4th year | Woodson Lab | Characterization of gene regulation by ribozyme during transcription |
Ting-Wei Liao | 4th year | Ha Lab | |
Anson Dang | 3rd year | Fleming Lab | Characterization of membrane and periplasmic proteins |
Tom Zhang | 3rd year | Garcia-Moreno Lab | Characterizing the conformational and thermodynamic consequences of buried acidic residues and buried ion-pairs in proteins |
Wilson Sun | 3rd year | Woodson Lab | Identifying factors that determine the efficiency of co-transcriptional assembly of ribosome |
Yingda Ge | 3rd year | Myong Lab | Using smFRET to characterize the interactions between RNA and RNA binding proteins during the process of liquid-liquid phase separation |
Lucas Shen | 3rd year | Fleming Lab | Chaperone function and membrane protein folding |
Adip Jhaveri | 2nd year | Johnson Lab | Quantifying protein-protein interactions using MD simulations |
Soumya Prakash Behera | 2nd year | Barrick Lab | Characterizing structure and dynamics in Notch transcription factor (CSL) and repeat proteins using NMR spectroscopy |
Sushil Pangeni | 2nd year | Ha Lab | Understanding the interaction of Replication proteins with DNA using single molecule fluorescence |
Meera Joshi | 2nd year | Myong Lab | How G-Quadruplexes, a nucleic acid secondary structure, can affect translation processes |
Mankun Sang | 2nd year | Johnson Lab | Building a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion simulation tool |
Qilan Wei | 2nd year | Woodson Lab | The impact of nucleoside modifications on ribosome assembly |
Iryna Chelepis | 1st year | Completing Coursework and rotations | |
Jingzhou Hao | 1st year | Completing Coursework and rotations | |
Jimin Kang | 1st year | Completing Coursework and rotations | |
Tiana Shang | 1st year | Completing Coursework and rotations |