2021 Biophysics Graduates

Dissertation Title: Tumor-agnostic Immunotherapy by Delivery of CAR T Cell Ligands to Solid Tumors PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Darrell Irvine, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT For my PhD I was interested in engineering combination...

Dissertation Title: Protein Engineering Strategies to Modulate B Cell Responses PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Stephen C. Harrison and Dr. Aaron G. Schmidt, Dept. of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology/ Ragon Institue of MGH

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Dissertation Title: Deconstructing Cell Intrinsic Immunity and Host-Pathogen Interactions Using Single-Cell Genomics PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Alex K. Shalek, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research/ Ragon Institute/ Broad Institute/ HMS/ MGH

Dissertation Title: Lineage Tracing and Manifold Curvature Estimation for Single-Cell Transcriptomics PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Sahand Hormoz, Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute/ Harvard Medical School

For my PhD research, I was broadly...

Dissertation Title:  Engineering Protease Activity Sensors and Machine Learning Methods to Detect and Characterize Disease PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

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Dissertation Title:  RNA Hybridization and Protein Multimerization in and out of Equilibrium PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Michael P. Brenner, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

I first got interested in Biophysics through the Integrated Science...

Dissertation Title:  Exploring Single-Cell Chromatin Organization with Multiplexed DNA-FISH: Towards an Imaging Platform for Single-Cell Multi-Omics

PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Dissertation Title:  Novelty or Nuisance? Where Lineage-Specific Genes Come From and Why It Matters PhD Dissertation Advisor(s):  Dr. Sean Eddy and Dr. Andrew Murray, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology

My interests during my PhD were broadly in the...

Dissertation Title:  Geometry of Single-Cell Multiplex Data Reflects Biophysical Processes in Cells PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Peter Sorger, Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

I have been generally interested in using deeper...

Dissertation Title:  Single-Cell Genomics of Human Cancer

PhD Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Eliezer Van Allen, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

 

As a graduate student in the Harvard Biophysics PhD program I worked in the lab of Eliezer Van Allen at Dana-Farber...