2017 Biophysics Graduates

Dissertation Title:  Targeted Measurement and Manipulation of Hydrogen Peroxide in the Cardiovascular System PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Thomas Michel, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title:  Colors Underwater: a behavioral and neural systems study on color vision in the larval zebrafish PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Florian Engert, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology My PhD research focused on the neuronal circuits...

Dissertation Title:  Monte Carlo simulation approaches to protein stability and aggregation prediction PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Eugene Shakhnovich, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Dissertation Title:  Single-molecule studies of bacterial chromosome organization and segregation PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Joseph Loparo, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

I studied how bacterial...

Dissertation Title:  Synthetic Recombinase-based State Machines PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Timothy Lu, Biological Engineering, MIT

Dissertation Title: Complexity in Protein-DNA Sequence Recognition PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Martha L. Bulyk, Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: Quantifying and engineering protein dynamics in bacteria PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Johan Paulsson, Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title:  Continuous Evolution of Proteases with Altered Specificity PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. David R. Liu: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Under David R. Liu's mentorship, I worked on the phage-assisted continuous evolution...

Dissertation Title:  Microscopic Image Guidance: Real-time Thermal Therapy Monitoring for Epithelial Lesions PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Brett Bouma, Wellman Center for Photomedicine/ Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation, Massachusetts...

Dissertation Title: Towards therapeutic appications of CRISPR-Cas nucleases: developing technologies for in vivo gene editing & evaluating genome-wide specificity PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT