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Our Scientists

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Prof. Robert Newberry

Principal Investigator

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

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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.

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Dr. Saikat Pahan

Postdoctoral Scholar

Saikat is a chemist who is developing new synthetic strategies for the control of protein structure.

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Haoliang Zheng

Graduate Student

Haoliang is a chemist who uses synthetic and biophysical approaches to probe protein structure.

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Kyren Miller

Graduate Student

Kyren is a biochemist who uses molecular and genetic approaches to study protein-protein interactions.

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Meghu Nittala

Graduate Student

Meghu is a chemist developing new structural biology approaches to study protein misfolding in living cells.

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Sanju Nittala

Graduate Student

Sanju is a chemist developing biochemical approaches to study neglected misfolded protein species.

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Abhirup Paul

Graduate Student

Paul is a biochemist who uses biomolecular and computational approaches to study protein structures.

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Adam Stearns

Graduate Student

Adam is a chemist applying synthetic strategies to control protein structure.

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Diana Thomas

Graduate Student

Diana is a chemist who is working to stabilize peptidomimetics for biological applications

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Elizabeth Yoo

Undergraduate

Elizabeth works on our biology team to probe structure-function relationships in protein isoforms.

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Kevin Shen

Undergraduate

Kevin works on our chemistry team to help develop ways to control peptide structure and activity

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Join Us!

We are always looking for enthusiastic people from different scientific backgrounds to join our team!

Visit our Contact page to learn more.

Alumni

Postdocs

Anindita Mahapatra (2022-2024)

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Graduate Students

Fengyi Gu (M.S., 2024)

 

Postbacs

Rishob Dasgupta (2022-2023)

Kimberly Perry (2022)

Matthew Barnett (2022)

 

Undergraduates

Sumedh Potla (2024-2026)

Krtihi Meduri (2023-2025)

Ellie Yates (2023-2025)

Abdullah Khasawneh (2022-2025)

Brianna Phan (2022-2025)

Haseeb Siddiqui (2022-2025)

Zeke Bickham (2022-2024)

​Tyler Collie (2022-2024)

​Claire Martinez (2022-2024)

​Berea Suen (2022-2024)

​Mindy Tran (2022-2024)

​Sarah Tran (2022-2024)

​Hannah Verstuyft (2022-2024)

​Spencer Willeford (2023)

​Thara Ayyar (2022-2023)

​Avery Elliot (2022-2023)​

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