2012 Biophysics Graduates

Dissertation Title: Force Sensitivity of the von Willebrand Factor A2 Domain PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Timothy A. Springer, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School/ Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine...

Dissertation Title: Phenomenological Models in Biological Physics: Cell Polarity and rDNA Transcription PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Alexander van Oudenaarden, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, MIT

Dissertation Title: Biometric Navigation with Ultrasound PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Nathan J. McDannold, Dept. of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Single-Molecule Studies of Eukaryotic DNA Replication

PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Antoine van Oijen and Dr. Johannes Walter, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

 

Dissertation Title: The Facilitation of Protein-DNA Search and Recognition by Multiple Modes of Binding PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Leonid Mirny and Dr. Antoine van Oijen, Institute for Medical Engineering in Science, MIT/ Dept. of Biological...

Dissertation Title: Optogenetics and Computer Vision for C. elegans Neuroscience and Other Biophysical Applications PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Aravinthan D.T. Samuel, Dept. of Physics

Dissertation Title: Sortase-Mediated Labeling of M13 Bacteriophage and the Formation of Multi-Phage Structures PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Angela Belcher, Dept. of Biological Engineering, MIT

Dissertaton Title: Biophysical and Molecular Determinants in Cell-Mediated Fibronectin Unfolding that Drive Fibrillogenesis PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Collin M. Stultz and Dr. Donald E. Ingber, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science...

Dissertation Title: Statistical Characterization of Protein Ensembles PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Collin M. Stultz, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Health, Science & Technology, MIT

Dissertation Title: Structural Studies on the EIF4A-EIF4G Interaction in Translation Initiation PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Gerhard Wagner, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School