Biophysics and Structural Biology - School of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center

School of Medicine and Dentistry

Students in the Graduate Program in Biophysics and Structural Biology

Prahnesh Akshayalingam Venkataraman

B.Tech. Anna University India, 2004
Advisor - Dumont, M.
"Studying Conformational Changes of Anion Exchangers- Single Molecule FRET approach"

M.E. Indian Institute of Technology, 2005
Advisor - Mathews, D.

M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, 1999
Advisor: Koide, S./Dumont, D.
"Quantifying Protein Stability Using Yeast Surface Display and Fragment Complementation"

B.A. Colgate University, 2003
Advisor - Miller, B.
"Investigation of Oligocycloalkane Scaffolded Receptors for Bacterial Lipid A"

B.S. Union College, 2000
Advisor - Dumont, M.
"Demonstrating Ste2p dimerization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its potential role in dominant negative signaling"

B.S. State University of New York at Brockport, 2001
Advisor: King, M.
"Dynamics of Neutrophil Adhesion to Micropatterned Surfaces"

M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, 2006
First Year

M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, 2005
First Year

Daniel Letzring

B.S. Providence College, 2005
Advisor - Phizicky, E.

B.S. University of Science & Technology of China,
Advisor - Mathews, D.
"Designing siRNA using improved RNA Secondary Structure Prediction"

B.S. LeMoyne College, 2003
Advisor - Miller, B.
"Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry: A Novel Method for Monitoring Immunologic Responses"

M.S. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education, 2000
Advisor - Miller, B.
"Selective Recognition of Monosaccharides using Synthetic Organic Receptors"

M.S. Texas A&M University, 2005
First Year

M.S. St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, 2005
Advisor - Bernhard, W.

B.A. Ithaca College, 2002
Advisor - Miller, B.
"David vs. Goliath: Small Molecules Competing with Proteins at Protein-Protein Interfaces"

B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 2004
Advisor - Mathews, D.
"Efficiently Measuring Free Energies of Folding with Computational Pulling Experiments"

Neelaabh Shankar

M.S. Panjab University, 2000
Advisor: Turner, D.
"NMR structure of an internal loop differs from its crystal structure in D. radiodurans ribosome"

B.S. Clarkson University, 2005
Advisor: McGrath, J.

Blanton Tolbert

M.S. Hampton University, 2001
Advisor: Turner, D.
"Probing the Structural Determinants of Stability for Internal Loops with GA Pairs Closed by GU Base Pairs"

B.S. State University of New York at Geneseo, 2003
Advisor - Wedekind, J.
"Defining Mechanisms of Action for Two Protein or RNA Enzymes that Act on Nucleic Acid Substrates"

B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, 2001
Advisor - Mathews, D.
"Prediction of coaxial stacking of helices in RNA multibranch loops "

B.A. Colgate University, 2002
Advisor: Bren, K
"Finding Foldons"

Keith Van Nostrand

B.S. Houghton College, 2002
Advisor - Mathews, D.

B.S. College of Life Sciences, Peking University, 2001
Advisor - Hayes, J.
"The effect of acetylation on interactions of the H2B N-terminal tail domain with DNA in nucleosome core particles and nucleosomes containing linker DNA"

Krystle Williams

B.A. Colgate University, 2006
First Year

M.S. Zhongsan (Sun Yat-sen) University, 2006
First Year

Hao Zhang Hao Zhang

M. Phil. U.Cambridge, 2003
Advisor: McGrath, J.