Our Scientists

Prof. Robert Newberry

Principal Investigator

Robert is a chemical biologist who uses a variety of experimental and computational approaches to probe cellular protein misfolding.

Dr. Anindita Mahapatra

Postdoctoral Scholar

Anindita is a biophysical chemist who leads our in vitro biochemistry team to understand how molecular interactions affect misfolded protein structure.

Dr. Daeun Noh

Postdoctoral Scholar

Daeun is a biochemist who leads our in vivo structural biology team in applying mutational scanning to probe protein misfolding in high resolution.

Kimberly Perry

Research Assistant | Lab Manager

Kim is a biochemist who leads our peptide team to probe the chemistry of protein misfolding. She is also leading the setup of our new lab.

Matthew Barnett

Research Assistant

Matt is a chemist who builds new peptidomimetics to control proteins structure. He also helps lead our chemistry subgroup.

Robin Gray

Undergraduate

Robin recently graduated with a B.S. in chemistry and is working on our chemistry team.

Thara Ayyar

Undergraduate

Thara is a senior biology major working on our biology team.

Zeke Bickham

Undergraduate

Zeke is a junior computational engineering major working on our biology team.

Tyler Collie

Undergraduate

Tyler is a junior chemistry major working on our biochemistry team.

Lana Dokic

Undergraduate

Lana is a junior biochemistry major working on our chemistry team.

Jonah Downs

Undergraduate

Jonah is a junior chemistry major working on our chemistry team.

Emmanuel Gonzalez

Undergraduate

Emmanuel is a junior on our chemistry team, majoring in neuroscience and sociology.

Angelica Sanchez

Undergraduate

Angelica is a junior on our biochemistry team, majoring in biochemistry and minoring in Japanese.

Hannah Verstuyft

Undergraduate

Hannah is a junior public health major working on our biology team.

Brianna Phan

Undergraduate

Brianna is a sophomore human development and family sciences major working on our biology team.

Haseeb Siddiqui

Undergraduate

Haseeb is a sophomore biology major working on our biology team.