Fifth + Year

Andrew Alamban

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

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

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

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

Lieza Chan

she/her/hers

Skidmore College
BA, Chemistry

Research summary: Structural studies of the N-Myc protein interactome

Daphne Chen

Daphne Chen

she/her/hers

University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Biophysics

Research summary: Characterizing anti-CRISPR proteins

Radhika Dalal

Radhika Dalal

she/her/hers

University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry; Biology

PI: Tanja Kortemme

Connor Galvin

Connor Galvin

he/him/his

New College of Florida
BA, Chemistry

Research summary: De Novo Computational Design of Small Molecule Binding Proteins

Dominic Grisingher

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

Brendan Hall

he/him/his

Williams College
BA, Double Major: Physics and Math

PI: Brian Shoichet

Simone Harrison

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

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

Catherine Kuhn

she/her/hers

Washington University
AB, Biochemistry

Kevin Nie

Kevin Nie

University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry

PI: Dyche Mullins

Research summary: Studying regulation of cytoskeletal actin by novel Drosophila tropomyosins

Estelle Ronayne

Estelle Ronayne

she/her/hers

Western Washington University
BS, Biochemistry

Maxwell Tucker

Maxwell Tucker

University of California, Berkeley
BS, Chemistry

Patrick Zager

Patrick Zager

he/him/his

Lehigh University
BS, Bioengineering

Research summary: Investigating How Morphology Integrates Signaling in Motile Cells

Jonathan Zhang

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

Angelika Arada

she/her/hers

San Francisco State University
BS, Biochemistry

Giovanni Aviles

Giovanni Aviles

he/him/his

University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology

PI: Bill DeGrado, Margaux Pinney

Jonathan Borowsky

Jonathan Borowsky

he/him/his

Washington University
AB, Biology

PI: Michael Grabe

Kevin Delgado-Cunningham

Kevin Delgado-Cunningham

he/him/his

University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

PI: Katherine Susa, Kliment Verba

Nicholas Freitas

Nicholas Freitas

he/him/his

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science and Molecular Biology

Asa Kalish

Asa Kalish

they/them/theirs

Washington University
BA, Physics, Mathematics

Alex Long

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

Isiac Orr

Isiac Orr

he/him/his

University of Washington
BS, Bioengineering: Option in Data Science

Joseph Pepe

Joseph Pepe

he/him/his

Rutgers U Coll Engineering
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, Cell Bio & Neuro

Dani Rodea

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

Henry Scott

he/him/his

Colorado State University
BS, Biochemistry

PI: Bill DeGrado, Orion Weiner

Lisa Zheng

Lisa Zheng

she/her/hers

University of California, Berkeley
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology

PI: Michael Grabe

Third Year

Gyasu Bajracharya

Gyasu Bajracharya

he/him/his

Gettysburg College
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Music

PI: Tony Capra

Yifei Chen

Yifei Chen

she/her/hers

Xian Jiaotong University
BA, Applied Physics

PI: James Wells

Karson Chrispens

Karson Chrispens

he/him/his

Walla Walla University
BSE, Bioengineering

PI: James Fraser

Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo

Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo

they/them/theirs

Western Washington University
BS, Biochemistry

PI: Tanja Kortemme, Katherine Susa

Amy Flis

Amy Flis

she/her/hers

University of Connecticut
BS, Structural Biology and Biophysics

PI: Dan Southworth

David Gomez Siu

David Gomez Siu

he/him/his

UC Berkeley
BS, Bioengineering

PI: Sophie Dumont

Research summary: I am broadly interested in methods to study protein-protein interactions that give rise to physical macromolecular dynamics in vivo. In my free time, I like to listen to music, travel, eat food, and drink coffee.

Divya Kranthi

Divya Kranthi

she/her/hers

Johns Hopkins University
BA, Biophysics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Angelica Lam

Angelica Lam

she/her/hers

UC Berkeley
BS, Chemical Biology

PI: Margaux Pinney, Bo Huang

Ashley Lasko

Ashley Lasko

she/her/hers

Rochester Institute of Technology
BS, Physics

PI: Dyche Mullins

Minh Le

Minh Le

he/him/his

UC San Diego
BS, BS, Pharmacological Chemistry, Human Biology

Zack Mawaldi

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

Dru Myerscough

Rice University
BS, Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Ever O'Donnell

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

Patrick Rockefeller Grimes

he/him/his

UC Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

PI: Jeremy Reiter

Second Year

Garrison Asper

Garrison Asper

he/him/his

Bowdoin College
BA, Biochemistry and Environmental Studies

PI: Dyche Mullins

Keana Davis

Keana Davis

she/her/hers

University of San Francisco
MS, Chemistry
University of Iowa
BA, Biochemistry

Yagmur Doruk Polcyn

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

Isabella Glenn

she/her/hers

University of California: Davis
BS, Plant Biology

PI: Dan Southworth, Rushika Perera

Nikhil Gupta

Nikhil Gupta

He/him

University of Colorado Boulder
BA, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology; Biochemistry

PI: James Fraser

Yulia Gutierrez

Yulia Gutierrez

she/her/hers

Northwestern University
BA, Biological Sciences; Chemistry minor

PI: Tanja Kortemme

Isaiah Hazelwood

Isaiah Hazelwood

he/him/his

University of Toronto
BS, Computational Biology & Computer Science

PI: Kliment Verba

Gyuna Kim

Gyuna Kim

she/her/hers

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Chemistry and Biology, Music

PI: Jeannette Tenthorey

Rochel Munitz

Rochel Munitz

Touro University
BS, Computer Science and Honors Biology

PI: Tanja Kortemme

Harshu Musunuri

Harshu Musunuri

she/her/hers

Stanford University
BS, Chemistry

PI: Joseph Bondy-Denomy, Seth Shipman

Sophie-Christine Porak

Sophie-Christine Porak

she/her/hers

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
BSC, Biology

PI: Joseph DeRisi

Justin Sim

Justin Sim

he/him/his

University of California: Santa Cruz
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, minor Bioinformatics

Craig Soares

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

Jocelyn Chavez Rios

she/her/hers

University of Nevada, Las Vegas
BS, Biochemistry

Jessica Flowers

Jessica Flowers

she/they

University of California, Davis
BS, Chemical Physics

Delia Gagnon

Delia Gagnon

she/her/hers

University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics

Devin Hemmans

Devin Hemmans

he/him/his

University of California, Irvine
BS, Chemistry

Beau Lonnquist

Beau Lonnquist

he/him/his

University of Washington
BS, Bioengineering

Beatrice Mihalache

Beatrice Mihalache

she/her/hers

University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Biophysics

Ali Mobedi

Ali Mobedi

he/him/his

McMaster University
BS, Biochemistry

Keerthi Renduchintala

Keerthi Renduchintala

she/her/hers

University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry

Malavika Vinod

Malavika Vinod

she/her/hers

University of Colorado, Boulder
BA, Integrative Physiology

Taylor Womack

Taylor Womack

he/him/his

Utrecht University
MS, Theoretical Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Biophysics