Students
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
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
Dominic Grisingher
he/him/his
Arizona State University, Tempe
MS, Biochemistry (Medicinal Biochemistry)
BS, Biochemistry (Medicinal Chemistry)
PI: Tanja Kortemme
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
PI: Aashish Manglik
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
Research summary: Development of adaptive and enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations, and studying the mechanism of nucleotide transport by AAC1
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
PI: Brian Shoichet
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 mitochondrial AAA+ disaggregase Skd3 using cryo-EM/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
PI: Brian Shoichet
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, Pharmacological Chemistry, Human Biology
PI: Dan Southworth
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
Research summary: Cryo-electron microscopy of membrane proteins in cell-derived vesicles
Gyuna Kim
she/her/hers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Chemistry and Biology, Music
PI: Jeannette Tenthorey
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
PI: Laurel Kinman, James Fraser
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, High School Outreach Conference Organizing Committee
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