2015 Biophysics Graduates

Dissertation Title:  Understanding Cellular Specialization through Functional Genomics PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Wayne Lencer, Digestive Disease Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Single molecule FRET studies of reverse transcription and chromatin remodeling PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology For my PhD I was interested in applying single molecule fluorescence...

Dissertation Title:  Predicting the Effects of Missense Variants on Protein Structure, Function, and Evolution PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Shamil Sunyaev, Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Daniel researched...

Dissertation Title:  Three-Dimensional Chromosome Organization in Eukaryotes

PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Leonid Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering in Science, MIT

Research Interests:  3D Genome Organization: Physical models, statistical methods...

Dissertation Title: Probing the Spatio-Temporal Organizations and Dynamics of Gene Expression and DNA Replication in the Mammalian Cell Nucleus PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Dissertation Title:  Companion Imaging Probes and Diagnostic Devices for B-Cell Lymphoma PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Ralph Weissleder, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dissertation Title:  Optical Molecular Sensing in Complex Biological Environments PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Conor Evans, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital My dissertation research focused on synthesis of new biosensor...

Dissertation Title:  Single-molecule techniques to probe the dynamic gene regulatory network formed by core pluripotency circuit in embryonic stem cells PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Alexander van Oudenaarden, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, MIT

Dissertation Title:  Predicting the Electrophysiological Responses of Murine Alpha Retinal Ganglion Cells to Artificial and Natural Visual Stimuli

PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Markus Meister, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology

In the Meister lab, I...

Dissertation Title: Comprehensive approaches to identifying the targets of natural and synthetic antibodies using microarray DNA synthesis and high-throughput sequencing PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Steve Elledge, Dept. of Genetics, Brigham & Women's...