2014 Biophysics Graduates

Dissertation Title: Visualizing Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion: Inhibition and Kinetics PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Antoine van Oijen, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: The role of motor cortex in the acquisition and production of learned motor sequences PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Bence Olveczky, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Dissertation Title: Allele-specific detection of single mRNA molecules in situ and the study of transcriptional regulation PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Alexander van Oudenaarden, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, MIT

Dissertation Title: Improved PET Data Quantification in Simultaneous PET/MR Neuroimaging PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ciprian Catana, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dissertaton Title:  DNA-damage-induced apoptosis in stem and cancer cells PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Galit Lahav, Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title:  The role of deleterious passengers in cancer PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering in Science, MIT For his dissertation research, Chris developed mathematical models of cancer progression...

Dissertation Title: Exploring cancer's fractured genomic landscape: Searching for cancer drivers and vulnerabilities in somatic copy number alterations PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Rameen Beroukhim, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dissertation Title: Designing scalable biological interfaces PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. George M. Church, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title:  Optically-Active Nanomaterials for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications to Ovarian Cancer PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Dissertation Title:  Engineering microbial rhodopsins to expand the optogenetic toolkit PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Adam E. Cohen, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology