The Molecular Biophysics Training Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
MBTG Students
Jeffrey Brown
jwbrown4@uiuc.edu
Biophysics and Computational Biology

Bradley Evans
bsevans2@uiuc.edu
Biochemistry

Sharon Fluss
sfluss2@uiuc.edu
Biochemistry
Melinda Hoffman
mtonks2@uiuc.edu
Physics
Lindsay Sperling
lsperli1@scs.uiuc.eduedu
Chemistry
Taejin Min
tmin3@uiuc.edu
Physics

Andrew Nieuwkoop
anieuwk3@uiuc.edu

Chemistry

Christopher Salnave
csalnav2@uiuc.edu

Chemistry
David Tanner
dtanner2@uiuc.edu
Biophysics and Computational Biology

Past MBTG Students

Won-tak Choi
Studies of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor and its interactions with chemokines and novel synthetic peptides
Sharlene Denos
Sub-microsecond folding dynamics of protein folding on membranes and in the presence of macromolecular crowders
John Eargle
Bioinformatics and molecular dynamics of the EF-Tu:GTP:aa-tRNA ternary complex
Youssef Elias
Structural and Biochemical studies of DNA/RNA modifying enzymes
Evan Graves
Cooperative force production by multiple molecular motors
Rajarsi Gupta
Non-invasive monitoring of cerebral hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation in the cortical brain with near-infrared spectroscopy
Hanneli Hudock
Simulation of UV-induced dimer formation in DNA

Matthew Levengood
Investigation of the Substrate Specificity of Lacticin 481 Synthetase and Utilization in Peptide Engineering Applications
Ulai Noomnarm
Pressure Jump Induced Relaxation Kinetics of Nucleic Acids
Jonathan Silvestre
Microfluidic platforms for the investigation of integrin-cadherin
synergies in human breast cancer
Aaron Virshup
Mechanisms of environmental control over photochemistry
using first-principles quantum dynamical simulations of photochemical
reactions
John-Paul Yu
Crystallographic studies of signal transduction proteins