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Cristiano L. Dias

Associate Professor

New Jersey Institute of Technology

"It never hurts to see the good in someone, they often act the better because of it."

— Nelson Mandela

Cristiano Dias (PI)

Associate Professor - Department of Physics (NJIT).

Sabbatical leave 2020-2021 in the group of Mikko Haataja

Volkswagen Fellow at the Freie Universitat Berlin (Roland Netz) and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (Hue Sun Chan) and Western University (Mikko Karttunen).

PhD at McGill University (Martin Grant), MSc at the Universite de Montreal (Laurent Lewis), and Bsc at Universidade de Brasilia.

Warin Rangubpit (Post-doc)

Project: Membrane damage by supramolecular peptides

Previously, PDF at Kasetsart University.

Sandeepani Thilakaratne
(PhD student)

Project: Peptide aggregation in bulk solution and interfaces

Zahra Ramezanpour
(PhD student)

Project: TBD

Siwaporn Sungted (visiting PhD student
from Kasetsart University)

Project: Peptide aggregation at polar-nonpolar interfaces

Tasnima Rahman ( undergraduate )

Jadhy Michalowski (undergraduate)

Project: Predicting peptides that can form amyloid fibrils.

Undergraduate student (Mechanical Engineering)

Project: Peptide design.

Undergraduate student (Mechanical Engineering)

Motunrayo A. Shoyinka

Burhan Shah (undergraduate)

Project: Predicting peptides that can form amyloid fibrils.

Undergraduate student (Mechanical Engineering)

Project: Peptide design.

Undergraduate student (Biology)

Monthly group meetings of Nilsson and Dias lab members.

ALUMNI

Yanxing Yang (PhD student)

Sharareh Jalali (PhD student)

Thesis title: "Interaction of proteins with lipid bilayers".

Bsc and PhD at Wuhan University.

Previously, Associate professor at Jiangxi Normal University.

Now, PDF at Rutgers in the Nieuwkoop Lab

Thesis title: Protein aggregation into amyloid fibrils.

BSc and MSc in Biomedical engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

Previously: Healthcare Consultant- Roche Diagnostics, Middle East

Zhaoqian Su (PhD student)

Farbod Mahmoudinobar (PhD student)

Thesis title: "Effects of osmolytes on protein conformations"

Research Interests: (i) Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation for Protein Self-Assembly (ii) Signal Transduction across Cell Membrane: Outside-in and Inside-out (iii) Effect of Organic molecules/Drugs on Protein Stability.

Zhaoqian has abundant experience in protein design, model building, Molecular Dynamics simulations, AI.

Now at the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University mentored by Prof. Meiler.

Previously: PDF at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (with Yinghao Wu).

In his free time, Zhaoqian enjoys reading books and playing soccer.

Thesis title: "Thermodynamical stability of amyloid fibrils".

Now a research scientists at Moderna.

Chitra Narayan (PDF)

Research Interests: (i) intrinsically disordered proteins, (ii) protein misfolding and disease, (iii) enzyme allostery and function, and (iv) antimicrobial peptides

Now an Assistant Professor at York College (CUNY).

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/chtra

Shaneen Singh (Visiting Prof.)

Shaneen Singh Cropped.jpg

Full Professor at Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Sabattical Leave in the Dias lab (Fall 2020 and Fall 2021).

Website: https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=396

Undergraduate students

High School students

Liyan Cheung ( NYU undergraduate student in biomedical engineering, Summer Intern).

Kojo Acquaisie (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow, URI Seed Grant).

Lindsey Riggs (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow, URI Seed Grant) - Now a PhD student at Rutgers-Camden.

Tiffany Oliveira (ACS-PRF) - Now a PhD student in Chemistry at Rutgers-Newark

Maliha Matthew (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow)

Daniel Deboer (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow)

Jiajie Xu (Summer student) - Now a Master student in Physics at Georgia University

Gopal Ravindhran (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow) - Now a graduate student in Bioinformatics at NJIT.

Nicole Callen (NASA fellowship) - Now a researcher at ExxonMobil.

Albert Fraser (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow)
Patrick Rehain (NASA fellowship) - Now PhD student in Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology

Michael Papili (NASA fellowship) - Now a Sr. Linux analyst at Bloomberg LP

Check some of the youtube videos produced by Michael:

Gromacs Tutorial and Real Time Visualization of Gromacs

Irina Wong -

Akash Prasad - Now an undergraduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Eric Schuman, Hebert Li

Sope Fofah - Now an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in cell biology and neuroscience.

Terence Williams (SEED student) - Now an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in Computer Science

Jolarys Torres (SEED student) - Now an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in Biochemistry

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