2016 Biophysics Graduates

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

Dissertation Title:  Role of recurrent computation in object completion PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Gabriel Kreiman, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

For my PhD research, I worked with epilepsy patients who had intracranial...

Dissertation Title: DNA polymerase exchange and lesion bypass in Escherichia coli PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Joseph Loparo, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

James carried out his dissertation research in...

Dissertation Title:  Simultaneous Inference of Cell Types, Lineage Trees, and Regulatory Genes from Gene Expression Data PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Sharad Ramanathan, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Dissertation Title:  Competition and Coexistence in Yeast Experimental Evolution PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Michael Desai, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary 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

Dissertation Title: Engineered biofilms for materials production and patterning PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Timothy Lu, Biological Engineering, MIT Allen Y. Chen received his PhD from the Harvard Biophysics program in affiliation with Harvard-MIT...

Dissertation Title: Bistable Dynamics in Microbial Ecology and Systems Biology PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Jeff Gore, Dept. of Physics, MIT

Kevin graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in physics and biochemistry and...