Alumni A-E

Dissertation Title:  Using mechanical force to study biological processes: from blood clotting to immune cell adhesion PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Wesley P. Wong, Boston Children's Hospital

The goal of my lab is to understand the role of corticolimbic areas in guiding attention to, and imagery, learning and memory of, motivationally-salient external and interoceptive stimuli.

The way that external stimuli are encoded in brain activity is...

Dissertation Title: Protein folding and misfolding in the cell: towards an atomistic picture PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Eugene Shakhnovich, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology I am broadly interested in how biological molecules self-assemble...

Dissertation Title: Coordination of patterning and morphogenesis: Illuminating principles of early embryonic development using annual killfish and human stem cell models PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sharad Ramanathan, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular...

Dissertation Title: Ubiquitin Pathway Blockade by Stapled Peptide Targeting of the Ubiquitin E1 Activating Enzyme PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Loren Walensky, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ann Morgan was an MD/PhD student pursuing her...

Dissertation Title:  Mechanism of Translocation by the Bacterial ATPase SecA PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Tom Rapoport, Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title:  Principles of Chromosome Loop Formation by Cohesin and Condensin Protein Complexes PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Leonid A. Mirny and Dr. Anders Hansen, Institute for Medical Engineering in Science, MIT

In his dissertation research...

Dissertation Title:  An Investigation of the Interaction Between Graphene and Hydrated Ions PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Jene Golovchenko, Dept. of Physics

Dissertation Title: Correlated Transcription Modules Uncovered by High-Precision Single-Cell Transcriptomics PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Dissertation Title:  Nanoscale organization and optical observation of biomolecules with DNA nanotechnology PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Peng Yin, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering