Cristiano Dias (PI)
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Professor - Department of Physics (NJIT).
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Sabbatical leave 2020-2021 in the group of Mikko Haataja
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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).
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PhD at McGill University (Martin Grant), MSc at the Universite de Montreal (Laurent Lewis), and Bsc at Universidade de Brasilia.
Gizem Celebi Torabfam(Post-doc)
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Project: Membrane damage by amphipathic peptides
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Previously at Sabanci University.
Sandeepani Thilakaratne
(PhD student)
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Project: Peptide aggregation in bulk solution and interfaces
Jianping Chen
(PhD student)
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Project: Effects of chirality on peptide aggregation
Siwaporn Sungted (visiting PhD student
from Kasetsart University)
Zahra Ramezanpour
(PhD student)
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Project: Peptide aggregation at polar-nonpolar interfaces
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Project: Antimicrobial amphipathic peptides
Gian Menjivar (Undergradute)
Yousef Mortaja (undergraduate)
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Project: Fibril structures.
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Undergraduate student (Chemistry)
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Project: Peptide design.
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Undergraduate student (Physics)
ALUMNI
Yanxing Yang (PhD student)
Sharareh Jalali (PhD student)
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Thesis title: "Interaction of proteins with lipid bilayers".
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Previously at Wuhan University.
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Now Assistant Professor at Caldwell University.
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Thesis title: Protein aggregation into amyloid fibrils.
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Previously at Amirkabir University of Technology
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Now Research Scientist at Alnylam.
Zhaoqian Su (PhD student)
Farbod Mahmoudinobar (PhD student)
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Thesis title: "Effects of osmolytes on protein conformations"
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In his free time, Zhaoqian enjoys reading books and playing soccer.
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Now Research Scientist at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
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Thesis title: "Thermodynamical stability of amyloid fibrils".
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Previously at Amirkabir University of Technology
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Now senior research scientists at Moderna.
Chitra Narayan (PDF)
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Research Interests: (i) intrinsically disordered proteins, (ii) protein misfolding and disease, (iii) enzyme allostery and function, and (iv) antimicrobial peptides
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Now an Assistant Professor at York College (CUNY).
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Website: https://sites.google.com/view/chtra
Shaneen Singh (Visiting Prof.)
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Full Professor at Brooklyn College (CUNY)
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Sabattical Leave in the Dias lab (Fall 2020 and Fall 2021).
Warin Rangupit (PDF)
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Research Interests: Antimicrobial peptides
Monthly group meetings of Nilsson and Dias lab members.
Undergraduate students
High School students
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Tasnima Rahman, Burhan Shah, Motunrayo A. Shoyinha
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Jadhy Michalowski (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow, URI Seed Grant)
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Liyan Cheung ( NYU undergraduate student in biomedical engineering, Summer Intern).
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Kojo Acquaisie (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow, URI Seed Grant).
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Lindsey Riggs (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow, URI Seed Grant) - Now a PhD student at Rutgers-Camden.
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Tiffany Oliveira (ACS-PRF) - Now a PhD student in Chemistry at Rutgers-Newark
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Maliha Matthew (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow)
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Daniel Deboer (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow)
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Jiajie Xu (Summer student) - Now a Master student in Physics at Georgia University
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Gopal Ravindhran (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow) - Now a graduate student in Bioinformatics at NJIT.
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Nicole Callen (NASA fellowship) - Now a researcher at ExxonMobil.
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Albert Fraser (Undergraduate Summer Provost Fellow)
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Patrick Rehain (NASA fellowship) - Now PhD student in Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology
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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
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Irina Wong
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Akash Prasad - Now an undergraduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Eric Schuman, Hebert Li
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Sope Fofah - Now an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in cell biology and neuroscience.
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Terence Williams (SEED student) - Now an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in Computer Science
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Jolarys Torres (SEED student) - Now an undergraduate student at Rutgers University in Biochemistry