2013 Biophysics Graduates

Dissertation Title: Development and Application of Two-Photon Excitation Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy for Superresolution Fluorescence Imaging in Thick Tissue PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Bernardo L. Sabatini, Dept. of Neurobiology, Harvard...

Dissertation Title: Biosensor Platforms for Molecular Analyses of Circulating Cancer Biomarkers PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ralph Weissleder, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dissertation Title: Toward Multiplex Genome Engineering in Mammalian Cells PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. George M. Church, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Bayesian inference approaches for particle trajectory analysis in cell biology PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Mark Bathe, Dept. of Biological Engineering, MIT

Dissertation Title: The mechanism and regulation of chromatin remodeling by ISWI family enzymes PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Dissertation Title: Electrokinetic Trapping of Single Molecules, and Euler Buckling and Nonlinear Kinking of DNA PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Adam E. Cohen, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Dissertation Title: Coordination of Individual and Ensemble Cytoskeletal Motors Studied Using Tools from DNA Nanotechnology PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Samara L. Reck-Peterson and Dr. William M. Shih, Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School/...

Dissertation Title: Extracellular Matrix as a Key Mediator of Mammary Tumor Cell Normalization PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Donald E. Ingber, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Dissertation Title: Integrating empirical data and population genetic simulations to study the genetic architecture of Type 2 Diabetes PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David Altshuler, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Dissertation Title:  Dynamics of HIV Treatment and Social Contagion

PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Martin Nowak, Dept. of Math and Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Alison did her undergraduate studies in physics at Queen's University (Kingston...