Fifth + Year
Andrew Alamban
he/him/his
University of Arizona
BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology; Mathematics
Research summary: Studying mechanisms that time organelle events during mitosis
Outreach activities: Student Chair of Biophysics Outreach Initiative
Kyle Anderson
he/him/his
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
BS, Nanomedicine & Biochemistry
Research summary: Discovering and characterizing rare recombinant binders to facilitate machine learning models for de novo antibody design
Alina Arzamassky
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
BS PHYS TH, Biophysics, Theoretical Physics
Research summary: Improving the scoring function in molecular docking using physical, computational, and chemical approaches
Hersh Bhargava
he/him/his
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: Wendell Lim, Hana El-Samad
Research summary: Development and validation of computational and experimental approaches for the rational design of human immune cell derived therapeutics.
Outreach activities:
2020: NIH Graduate & Professional School Fair, SACNAS, UCSF SEP
2021: NIH Graduate & Professional School Fair, UCSF SEP
Lieza Chan
she/her/hers
Skidmore College
BA, Chemistry
Research summary: Structural studies of the N-Myc protein interactome
Radhika Dalal
she/her/hers
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry; Biology
PI: Tanja Kortemme
Connor Galvin
he/him/his
New College of Florida
BA, Chemistry
Research summary: De Novo Computational Design of Small Molecule Binding Proteins
Dominic Grisingher
he/him/his
Arizona State University, Tempe
MS, Biochemistry (Medicinal Biochemistry)
BS, Biochemistry (Medicinal Chemistry)
Research summary: De novo designing a protein dependent switch
Brendan Hall
he/him/his
Williams College
BA, Double Major: Physics and Math
PI: Brian Shoichet
Simone Harrison
she/her/hers
Wesleyan University
BA, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Research summary: Molecular details of the interaction between GPCRs and GRKs
Upneet Kaur
University of Massachusetts Amherst
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Geeta Narlikar
Research summary: INO80 and SWR: Deciphering mechanistic differences in chromatin remodeling.
Catherine Kuhn
she/her/hers
Washington University
AB, Biochemistry
Kevin Nie
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Dyche Mullins
Research summary: Studying regulation of cytoskeletal actin by novel Drosophila tropomyosins
Estelle Ronayne
she/her/hers
Western Washington University
BS, Biochemistry
Maxwell Tucker
University of California, Berkeley
BS, Chemistry
Patrick Zager
he/him/his
Lehigh University
BS, Bioengineering
Research summary: Investigating How Morphology Integrates Signaling in Motile Cells
Jonathan Zhang
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry
Research summary: Using approaches in high-throughput biochemistry and machine learning to dissect allosteric regulatory mechanisms in small GTPases
Fourth Year
Angelika Arada
she/her/hers
San Francisco State University
BS, Biochemistry
Giovanni Aviles
he/him/his
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: Bill DeGrado, Margaux Pinney
Jonathan Borowsky
he/him/his
Washington University
AB, Biology
PI: Michael Grabe
Kevin Delgado-Cunningham
he/him/his
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Katherine Susa, Kliment Verba
Nicholas Freitas
he/him/his
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science and Molecular Biology
Asa Kalish
they/them/theirs
Washington University
BA, Physics, Mathematics
Alex Long
he/him/his
Saint Olaf College
BA, Biology, Chemistry
PI: Dan Southworth
Research summary: How do adapter proteins alter the activity of the protein unfoldase p97/VCP?
Outreach activities:
SRTP Mentor
ScholarMatch Mentor
Los Medanos Community College STEM Symposium Panelist
Biophysics Peer Mentoring
Bay Area Science Festival Volunteer
Isiac Orr
he/him/his
University of Washington
BS, Bioengineering: Option in Data Science
Joseph Pepe
he/him/his
Rutgers U Coll Engineering
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, Cell Bio & Neuro
Dani Rodea
she/her/hers
California State University, San Marcos
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Kliment Verba
Research summary: Unraveling mechanisms of hetero-signaling by Raf kinases
Outreach activities: I participated in the Science Education Partnership program where I helped teach 3 lessons to a group of 28 8th graders. I helped design the lesson plan, and I taught during all three lessons.
Henry Scott
he/him/his
Colorado State University
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Bill DeGrado, Orion Weiner
Lisa Zheng
she/her/hers
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology
PI: Michael Grabe
Third Year
Gyasu Bajracharya
he/him/his
Gettysburg College
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Music
PI: Tony Capra
Yifei Chen
she/her/hers
Xian Jiaotong University
BA, Applied Physics
PI: James Wells
Karson Chrispens
he/him/his
Walla Walla University
BSE, Bioengineering
PI: James Fraser
Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo
they/them/theirs
Western Washington University
BS, Biochemistry
PI: Tanja Kortemme, Katherine Susa
Amy Flis
she/her/hers
University of Connecticut
BS, Structural Biology and Biophysics
PI: Dan Southworth
Research summary: Understanding the metazoan AAA+ disaggregase Skd3 using CryoEM/ET
Outreach activities: BP Peer Mentor
David Gomez Siu
he/him/his
UC Berkeley
BS, Bioengineering
PI: Sophie Dumont
Research summary: Emergent mechanical properties of macromolecular structures in mitosis
Divya Kranthi
she/her/hers
Johns Hopkins University
BA, Biophysics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Angelica Lam
she/her/hers
UC Berkeley
BS, Chemical Biology
PI: Margaux Pinney, Bo Huang
Ashley Lasko
she/her/hers
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS, Physics
PI: Dyche Mullins
Minh Le
he/him/his
UC San Diego
BS, BS, Pharmacological Chemistry, Human Biology
Zack Mawaldi
he/him/his
Virginia Commonwealth University
BS, Chemistry
PI: Brian Shoichet
Valerie Myers
she/her/hers
Ohio State University, Columbus
BS, Physics
PI: Sophie Dumont
Dru Myerscough
Rice University
BS, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Ever O'Donnell
they/theirs/them
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
BS, Biophysics
PI: Robert Stroud, Willow Coyote-Maestas
Research summary: Molecular basis of substrate specificity evolution in ABCG2
Outreach activities: Board Member of Ann Arbor international cooperative counsel (2020-2024)
Patrick Rockefeller Grimes
he/him/his
UC Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
PI: Jeremy Reiter
Second Year
Garrison Asper
he/him/his
Bowdoin College
BA, Biochemistry and Environmental Studies
PI: Dyche Mullins
Research summary: Investigating the dynamics and localization of Surface Layer self-assembly in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
Keana Davis
she/her/hers
University of San Francisco
MS, Chemistry
University of Iowa
BA, Biochemistry
Yagmur Doruk Polcyn
she/her/hers
Koc University
MS, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Izmir Institute of Technology
BS, Molecular Biology and Genetics
PI: James Fraser
Isabella Glenn
she/her/hers
University of California: Davis
BS, Plant Biology
PI: Dan Southworth, Rushika Perera
Nikhil Gupta
He/him
University of Colorado Boulder
BA, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology; Biochemistry
PI: James Fraser
Yulia Gutierrez
she/her/hers
Northwestern University
BA, Biological Sciences; Chemistry minor
PI: Tanja Kortemme
Isaiah Hazelwood
he/him/his
University of Toronto
BS, Computational Biology & Computer Science
PI: Kliment Verba
Gyuna Kim
she/her/hers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Chemistry and Biology, Music
PI: Jeannette Tenthorey
Research summary: Investigating mutational resilience as a driver of antiviral protein evolution
Rochel Munitz
Touro University
BS, Computer Science and Honors Biology
PI: Tanja Kortemme
Harshu Musunuri
she/her/hers
Stanford University
BS, Chemistry
PI: Joseph Bondy-Denomy, Seth Shipman
Sophie-Christine Porak
she/her/hers
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
BSC, Biology
PI: Joseph DeRisi
Justin Sim
he/him/his
University of California: Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, minor Bioinformatics
Craig Soares
he/him/his
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS, Bioengineering and Chemistry (Double Major)
PI: Balyn Zaro
First Year
Jocelyn Chavez Rios
she/her/hers
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
BS, Biochemistry
Jessica Flowers
she/they
University of California, Davis
BS, Chemical Physics
Delia Gagnon
she/her/hers
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
Devin Hemmans
he/him/his
University of California, Irvine
BS, Chemistry
Beau Lonnquist
he/him/his
University of Washington
BS, Bioengineering
Beatrice Mihalache
she/her/hers
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Biophysics
Research summary: Li Lab Rotation
Outreach activities: Bay Area Science Fair Volunteering
Ali Mobedi
he/him/his
McMaster University
BS, Biochemistry
Keerthi Renduchintala
she/her/hers
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry
Malavika Vinod
she/her/hers
University of Colorado, Boulder
BA, Integrative Physiology
Taylor Womack
he/him/his
Utrecht University
MS, Theoretical Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Biophysics