Alumni
Over 180 people have graduated from The Biophysics Graduate Program since its formation. Our alums are now working all over in the world in both the public and private sector as educators, researchers, lawyers, scientists, and everything in between.
If any alumni want to connect with the program, connect with us on LinkedIn or email us at biophysics@osu.edu.
Graduation Year
Benedict Hui
Advisor: Xiaolin Cheng
Mia Kordowski
Advisor: Natalia Higuita Castro
Mohamed Mohssen
Advisor: Matthew Sullivan
Parth Pardeshi
Advisor: Kristin Stanford
Zachary Smith
Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor
Kaarthik Abhinav Balakrishnan
Advisor: Martin Haesemeyer
Current Position: Research Scientist at Eightsix Science
Thesis: A Systematic Study of Zebrafish Thermoregulation
Bryan Gemler
Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh
Current Position: Biological Data Scientist III at Battelle
Thesis: Prokaryotic Translation: Studies of Ribosome Biogenesis and Regulation
Harper Smith
Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor
Current Position: Postdoc at University of Chicago
Emily Chan
Advisor: Comert Kural & Jonathan Song
Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
Thesis: Mechanical Regulation of Endocytosis in Cancer: From Adhesion Dynamics to Cell Death
Christian O'Neil
Advisor: Christopher Jaroniec
Abhjeet Bhullar
Advisor: Peixuan Guo
Current Position: Physicist at the Department of the Air Force
Thesis: RNA Detection Enables Precise Exosome Engineering for Enhanced Therapeutic Outcomes
Paige Bowling
Advisor: John Herbert
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Diana Lopez
Advisor: Carlos Castro
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Chicago
Thesis: Exploring Structure and Mechanics of Molecular Sensors and DNA-based Nanodevices
Maria Angelica Rincon-Benavides
Advisor: Natalia Higuita Castro
Sarah Sturgill
Advisor: Mark Ziolo
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University
Thesis: Speckle Tracking Echocardiography to Characterize Canonical and Noncanonical Models of Heart Disease
Wei-Hsiang Weng
Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Chicago
Austin Cool
Advisor: Steffen Lindert
Current Position: Computational Chemist at Corteva Agriscience
Thesis: Investigation of Cardiac Troponin Dynamics by Enhanced Sampling Methods
Eric Hantz
Advisor: Steffen Lindert
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California San Francisco
Ariel Robbins
Advisor: Michael Poirier
Current Position: Research Scientist at UES
Thesis: Cooperative Control of a DNA Origami Force Sensor
Elakkiya Tamilselvan
Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor
Current Position: Associate Scientist/Postdoctoral Fellow at Merck
Komla Gnona
Advisor: Igor Jouline
Current Position: Scientist I at Sensorium Therapeutics
Thesis: Topics in Computational and Statistical Genomics
Gregory Jameson
Advisor: Rafael Bruschweiler
Current Position: Law Student at Cornell Law School
Collin Nisler
Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Chicago, Szostak Lab
Kevin Walsh
Advisor: Gunjan Agarwal
Current Position: Microscopy and Imaging Lead at Proctor and Gamble
Thesis: Magnetic Characterization of Biological and Synthetic Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles
Ruiqi Wu
Advisor: Dongping Zhong
Current Position: Decision Analytics Associate Consultant at ZS
Thesis: Ultrafast Catalytic Mechanism and Molecular Dynamics of Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase
Patrick Houston
Advisor: Dongping Zhong
Current Position: Technology Development Chemist at Franklin International
Thesis: Ultrafast Collective Dynamics of Water-Protein Interactions
Stephanie Kim
Advisor: Steffen Lindert
Current Position: Computational Scientist at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Aparna Unnikrishnan
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, San Francisco
Thesis: Investigation of Protein Structure and Dynamics by NMR Spectroscopy
Jack Wellmerling
Advisor: Estelle Cormet-Boyaka
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Thesis: Expression and stability of the ion channel CFTR in inflammatory lung diseases
Keyton Clayson
Advisor: Jun Liu
Current Position: Senior Clinical Project Coordinator at Medpace
Benjamin Donovan
Advisor: Michael Poirier
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at NIH-NCI National Cancer Institute
Thesis: Nucleosome Regulation of Transcription Factor Binding Kinetics: Implications for Gene Expression
Joshua Johnson
Advisor: Carlos Castro
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Thesis: Control of DNA Origami from Self-Assembly to Higher-Order Assembly
Stephen Pearson
Advisor: James Cowan
Current Position: Scientist at Abbott
Thesis: Glutathione Coordinated Iron-Sulfur Cluster Transport via a Mitochondrial ABC Transporter
Maximillian Westphal
Advisor: Anil Pradhan
Current Position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
Ata Ahmet Akatay
Advisor: Richard Fishel
Current Position: Research Scholar at Tubitak Ulusal Metroloji Enstitusu
Thesis: High Resolution Fluorescence Imaging to Study Dynamics of Clathrin-Coated Structures
Balasubramani Hariharan
Advisor: Ross Dalbey
Current Position: Research Scientist at UCB Pharma
Thesis: Structure-Function and Substrate-Specificity Studies of Escherichia coli YidC.
Sarah Hulbert
Advisor: Hojjat Adeli
Current Position: Associate Manager Advanced Analytics at Meijer
Carol Huseby
Advisor: Jeff Kuret
Current Position: Assistant Research Professor at ASU Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Thesis: Molecular Neuropathology in Alzheimer's Disease
Avinash Jaiganesh
Advisor: Marcos Sotomayor
Current Position: Scientist at Xtal BioStructures, Inc.
Thesis: Cadherin-23 Structure, Function, and Nanomechanics in Hearing and Deafness
Jenny Le
Advisor: Carlos Castro
Current Position: Lab Manager at iBio, Inc
Thesis: Tunable Nanocalipers to Probe Structure and Dynamics in Chromatin
Jack Tokarsky
Advisor: Zucai Suo
Current Position: Research Scientist, Center for Childhood Cancer at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Thesis: Title Analysis of Human Y-Family DNA Polymerases and PrimPol by Pre-Steady-State Kinetic Methods
Dengke Zhao
Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh
Thesis: Quantitative Modeling of Protein - Nucleic Acid Interactions
Tingyang Zhou
Advisor: Li Zuo
Thesis: Molecular Roles of ROS in Mouse Respiratory Skeletal Muscle
Mithila Agnihotri
Advisor: Sherwin Singer
Current Position: Data Scientist at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Thesis: Dynamics of biomolecules: Dielectric spectrum of DNA and assembly of peptide fibrils
Nathan Jones
Advisor: Richard Fishel
Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist at Vaccine Production Program/VRC/NIAID/NIH
Thesis: Single Molecule Analysis of DNA Interactions
Pearson Maugeri
Advisor: Hannah Shafaat
Current Position: TD Module and Integration Yield Engineer at Intel Corp.
Thesis: Applications of resonance Raman spectroscopy to the study of bioinorganic macromolecules
Sidharth Mohan
Advisor: Thomas Magliery
Current Position: Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson
Nishanthi Panneerselvam
Advisor: Thomas Magliery
Current Position: Analyst at Acidophil LLC
Insiya Fidai
Advisor: James Cowan
Current Position: Technical Program Manager, AI Infrastructure at Google LLC.
Thesis: Metals in Biology: From Metallotherapeutics to Cofactor Assembly and Trafficking
Tang-Yu Liu
Advisor: Janet Best
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Michigan
Thesis: A Mathematical Model for the Luteinizing Hormone Surge in the Menstrual Cycle
Xiaoli Liu
Advisor: Michael Knopp
Current Position: Data Scientist, Assistant Vice President at Citizens Bank
Thesis: Redefining Dynamic PET to Improve Clinical Feasibility
Bobo Shi
Advisor: Sherwin Singer
Current Position: Research Scientist at Facebook
Jalal Khalid Siddiqui
Advisor: Jonathan Davis
Current Position: Post Doctoral Researcher at Ohio State University
Thesis: Modeling the response of troponin C to calcium in increasingly complex systems
Jeffrey Tonniges
Advisor: Gunjan Agarwal
Current Position: Senior Research Associate at Ohio State University Main Campus
Thesis: Regulation of Collagen Fibril Structure and Function by DDR1 in the Murine Aorta
Shane Walton
Advisor: Jonathan Davis
Current Position: Senior Medical Writer at ApotheCom
Thesis: Engineering an Anti-arrhythmic Calmodulin
Meng Zhang
Advisor: Dongping Zhong
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University
Thesis: Redox Tuning of Flavin and Ultrafast Electron Transfer Mechanisms in DNA Repair by Photolyases
Nicholas Callahan
Advisor: Thomas Magliery
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Maryland
Thesis: Bioinformatics-Driven Enzyme Engineering: Work On Adenylate Kinase
Elihu Ihms
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Data Science & Automation at VPPL/VRC/NIAID/NIH
Thesis: Integrative Investigation and Modeling of Macromolecular Complexes
Yi Luo
Advisor: Michael Poirier
Current Position: Scientist at Illumina, Inc
Thesis: Nucleosome regulation of transcription factor binding dynamics: a single molecule study
Kruthika Sundaram
Advisor: Mark Wewers
Current Position: Research Scientist at The University of Edinburgh
Thesis: Expression And Function Of Human IkappaBzeta In Lung Inflammation
Cai Chen
Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh
Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist at Admera Health
Thesis: Quantitative studies of RNA editing and nucleosomal DNA-protein interactions
Sara Lim
Advisor: Anil Pradhan
Current Position: Junior Medical Physicist at Pacific Crest Medical Physics
Thesis: Low Energy X-ray Radiosensitization Activated with High-Z Elements
Brian Maxwell
Advisor: Zucai Suo
Current Position: Staff Scientist at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
Ryan Pavlovicz
Advisor: Chenglong Li
Current Position: Scientist at Cyrus Biotechnology
Carlos Torres
Advisor: Paul Janssen
Current Position: Consultant at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Thesis: On the Role of Heart Rate Variability and Pyruvate on Cardiac Contractility
Katherine Binzel
Advisor: Nathan Hall
Current Position: Research Scientist at The Ohio State University
Thesis: Biophysical Considerations in the Precision of Quantitative 18F-FDG PET/CT
Lucas Citro
Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy
Current Position: Intelligence analyst at Federal Bureau of Investigation, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
Thesis: High-field Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Small Animal Models of Cardiovascular Disease
Hsiang-Ting Ho
Advisor: Sandor Gyorke
Current Position: Senior Scientist at Icagen
Thesis: The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Arrhythmogenicity of Cardiac Glycoside
Rick Layman
Advisor: Michael Knopp
Current Position: Associate Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Huyen Nguyen
Advisor: Michael Knopp
Current Position: Research Scientist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Thesis: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI and Diffusion-Weighted MRI for the Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer
Kelsey Schafer
Advisor: Jeff Kuret
Current Position: Co-Owner at Fullbody Fitness Club
Thesis: Targeting Tau Aggregation for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimers Disease
Lifei Tang
Advisor: Mark Ziolo
Wenbo Wei
Advisor: Michael Knopp
Current Position: Medical Physicist at Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Thesis: Knee Osteoarthritis: gagCEST MR Imaging of Articular Cartilage
Sverre Aune
Advisor: Mark Angelos
Current Position: Senior Clinical Specialist at MERGE
Thesis: The role of reactive oxygen species in post-ischemic low flow in the myocardium
Katryna Cisek
Advisor: Jeff Kuret
Current Position: Bioinformatician at 4D Pharma PLC
Thesis: Rational Optimization of Small Molecules for Alzheimers Disease Premortem Diagnosis
Adam Davis
Advisor: William Ray
Current Position: Director of Manufacturing at Abeona Therapeutics
Jiwei Huang
Advisor: Ronald Xu
Current Position: Hardware Test Engineer at Google
Thesis: Multispectral Imaging of Skin Oxygenation
Huameng Li
Advisor: Chenglong Li
Current Position: VP Java Applications Developer Lead at JP Morgan Chase & Co
Ravindra Amunugama
Advisor: Richard Fishel
Current Position: Scientist II at Vor Biopharma
Veer Bhatt
Advisor: Peng Wang
Current Position: Post-doc Researcher at Texas A&M;
Thesis: Non-lectin type protein-carbohydrate interactions
Angela Blissett
Advisor: Gunjan Agarwal
Current Position: Associate Director, Electron Microscopy at The Ohio State University
Thesis: Regulation of extracellular matrix remodeling and bone morphology by discoidin domain receptors
Shareef Dabdoub
Advisor: William Ray
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Iowa University, Department of Periodontics, College of Dentistry
Thesis: Applied visual analytics in molecular, cellular, and microbiology
Yashaswini Kannan
Advisor: Mark Wewers
Current Position: Scientific Investigator at GSK
Thesis: Functional characterization of human IkappaBzeta in modulating inflammatory responses
Ian Kleckner
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Cancer Control Division: University of Rochester Medical Center
Tanping Li
Advisor: Dongping Zhong
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University
Xin Li
Advisor: Michael Chan
Current Position: Scientist at Impossible Foods Inc.
Thesis: Development and application of chemical and structural biology approaches to probe protein function
Hassan Borteh
Advisor: Derek Hansford
Current Position: Data Scientist at PNC
Thesis: Micropatterning of functional inorganic materials with benign chemistry using peptide catalysts
Ali Hassanali
Advisor: Sherwin Singer & Dongping Zhong
Current Position: Researcher at The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Thesis: Water at molecular interfaces: structure and dynamics near biomolecules and amorphous silica
Sarah Javaid
Advisor: Richard Fishel
Current Position: Associate Director at MSD
Thesis: Nucleosome remodeling by hMSH2-hMSH6
YuKay Law
Advisor: Bern Kohler
Current Position: Associate Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University East
Thesis: Relationship Between the Kinetics of Thymine Dimer Formation and the Excited State Dynamics of DNA
Bin Liu
Advisor: Jonathan Davis
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Florida, Department of Human Nutrition
Michelle Monasky
Advisor: Paul Janssen
Current Position: Cardiac Physiologist at Policlinico San Donato, Italy
Thesis: The Role of the Myofilaments in the Relaxation of Cardiac Myocardium
Zoee Perrine
Advisor: Richard Sayre
Current Position: Research Scientist III at AB Biotek
Thesis: Modulating Energy and Electron Transfer Processes in Photosystem II of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Nirut Pussadee
Advisor: Derek Hansford
Ting-Yuan Yeh
Advisor: Mark Angelos
Current Position: Assistant Director at Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Simi Chacko
Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy
Current Position: Scientific Writer at Cactus Communications - Medical Communications
Marianne Lee
Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thesis: A two-pronged approach to improve distant homology detection
Haiyan Liu
Advisor: John Enyeart
Current Position: Registered Patent Agent at Saliwanchik Lloyd & Eisenschenk
Thesis: Hormonal control and pharmacology of bTREK-1 K+ channels in bovine adrenal zona fasciculata cells
Scott Oliver
Advisor: Thomas Clanton
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Jian Zhang
Advisor: Jeffrey Bartlett
Current Position: NCH
Thesis: HIV 1 SIV Neutralizing Antibody Gene Delivery: A Novel Vaccination Approach
Carlos Amero
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
Thesis: Protein Function Study by NMR Spectroscopy
Seongjin Choi
Advisor: Petra Schmalbrock
Current Position: Senior Research Analyst at University of Maryland Baltimore
Thesis: Proton NMR and MRI studies of sub-millimeter sized biological objects
Natalia Goldberger
Advisor: James Dalton
Current Position: Sr. Medical Science Liaison-Oncology at EMD Serono, Inc.
Emilia Iscru
Advisor: Michael Zhu
Current Position: Statistician at European Commission
Aditi Kulkarni
Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy
Current Position: Independent Biotechnology Professional
Soojin Lee
Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai
Anjali Mahajan
Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai
Current Position: Founder at CRAMbridge
Cosmin Mihai
Advisor: Gunjan Agarwal
Current Position: Director, Cell Biology at Moderna Therapeutics
Thesis: Role of Oligomerization in Discoidin Domain Receptors - Collagen Type I Interaction
Manoj Nair
Advisor: Donald Dean
Current Position: Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Hatice Ozer
Advisor: William Ray
Current Position: Postdoc at The Ohio State University
Thesis: Residue Associations In Protein Family Alignments
Weihong Qiu
Advisor: Dongping Zhong
Current Position: Associate Professor of Physics at Oregon State University
Thesis: Ultrafast Protein Hydration Dynamics Investigated by Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Sudarshan Seshadri
Advisor: Mark Wewers
Current Position: Analytical Method Validation Scientist at Cytovance Biologics
Thesis: Role of IkappaBzeta and Pyrin as Modulators of Macrophage Innate Immune Function
Deepti Vikram
Advisor: Periannan Kuppusamy
Current Position: Quality Assurance Analyst at Jewelry Television
Rui Xiao
Advisor: Michael Zhu
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Florida
Thesis: Activation and regulation of TRP channels
Xiangyu Yang
Advisor: Michael Knopp
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Medical Physicist at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Thesis: Quantitative Approaches in MRI with Clinical Applications
Catalina Alionte-Norman
Advisor: Jack Rall
Current Position: MD at Endocrine Center of Cape Cod, Cape Cod HealthCare
Hari Kamadurai
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: Associate Principal Scientist at Kymera Theraputics
Wei Liu
Advisor: Martin Caffrey
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
Georgeta Mihai
Advisor: Petra Schmalbrock
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
Thesis: Methods for brain iron evaluation in normal aging: T2 and phase measurements at 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla
Tennille Presley
Advisor: Govindasamy Ilangovan
Current Position: Professor of Physics at Winston Salem State University
Rakhi Rajan
Advisor: Charles Bell
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma
Thesis: Structural and functional studies of the bacterial RECA protein
Chaitanya Saxena
Advisor: Dongping Zhong
Current Position: CEO at Shantani Proteome Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
Thesis: Ultrafast dynamics of energy and electron transfer in DNA-photolyase
Arun Sridhar
Advisor: Cynthia Carnes
Current Position: Director & Head of Disease Biology at Galvani Bioelectronics
Thesis: Regulation of cardiac voltage gated potassium currents in health and disease
Balbir Thomas
Advisor: David Terman
Thesis: A model of mitochondrial calcium induced calcium release
Guoning Hu
Advisor: DeLiang Wang
Current Position: Principal Research Engineer at Lithium Technologies
Thesis: Monaural speech organization and segregation
Rinku Jain
Advisor: Michael Chan
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Guang Jia
Advisor: Michael Knopp
Current Position: Associate Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University
Thesis: MR imaging biomarkers for benign prostatic hyperplasia pharmacotherapy
Hyun Lee
Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai
Current Position: Research Associate Professor at University of Illinois, Chicago
Thesis: Structural and functional characterization of the yeast DUN1 FHA domain
Yuheng Li
Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh & Mario Lauria
Current Position: Principal Clinical Database Developer at Covidien Medtronic
Thesis: Searching for remotely homologous sequences in protein databases with hybrid PSI-blast
Yohann Reynold Misquitta
Advisor: Martin Caffrey
Current Position: Scientist II at Adimab, LLC
Sathish Rajamani
Advisor: Richard Sayre
Current Position: Senior Project Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thesis: Small molecule signaling and detection systems in protists and bacteria
Madalina Tivarus
Advisor: David Beversdorf
Current Position: Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences and Neuroscience at University or Rochester Medical Center
Thesis: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of language processing and its pharmacological modulation
Kun-Yun Yang
Advisor: Richard Swenson
Current Position: Fellow Researcher at Caltech
Praveen Mahadev Bahadduri
Advisor: James Dalton
Current Position: Principal Scientist at Sanofi
Cheng Chang
Advisor: Peter Swaan
Current Position: Associate Director at Pfizer, Inc.
Thesis: In silico approaches for studying transporter and receptor structure-activity relationships
Esmael Haddadian
Advisor: Elizabeth Gross
Current Position: Associate Instructional Professor at University of Chicago
Thesis: Brownian dynamics study of cytochrome f / Rieske interactions with cytochrome c6 and plastocyanin
Shawn Hamidinia
Advisor: Douglas Pfeiffer
Current Position: Patent Attorney at Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
Thesis: Lead transport properties of carboxylic acid and synthetic ionophores
Clara Isaza
Advisor: Michael Chan
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Ponce Health Sciences University
Thesis: Biochemical and structural characterization of novel metalloprotein sensors and carboxypeptidases
Srisunder Subramaniam
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: CEO at VentureStudio, Ahmedabad University
Carmen Chirita
Advisor: Jeff Kuret
Current Position: Lead Business Analyst at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Thesis: Clarification of tau fibrillization pathway in vitro implications to Alzheimers disease
Theresa Kannanayakal
Advisor: Jeff Kuret
Current Position: Project Manager-Contractor at Janssen Research & Development, LLC
Thesis: Casein kinase 1 isoforms in degenerative disorders
Mihaela Necula
Advisor: Jeff Kuret
Current Position: Director of Program Management at Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP)
Chastity Shaffer-Whitaker
Advisor: Petra Schmalbrock
Current Position: Patent Attorney at U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Law Office, Intellectual Property Division
Thesis: Evaluation of Hahn, CPMG, and combined spin echo analysis at 8 Tesla MRI
Antara Banerjee
Advisor: Peter Swaan
Current Position:Associate Director, Immunology Research and Group Leader at Immuno Biologics, Takeda
Surasak Siripornadulsil
Advisor: Richard Sayre
Current Position: Khon Kaen University Department of Microbiology (Medicine)
Junpeng Deng
Advisor: M. Sundaralingam
Current Position: Professor at Oklahoma State University
Thesis: X-ray crystallographic studies on RNA Tetraplexes and duplexes containing double bulges
Paul Klawitter
Advisor: Thomas Clanton
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University
Thesis: The role of antioxidants in cardiac and skeletal muscle during conditions of energy deficit
Li Zuo
Advisor: Thomas Clanton
Current Position: Associate Professor at University of Maine, Presque Isle Campus
Thesis: Molecular Mechanisms of Stress-induced Reactive Oxygen Species Formation in Skeletal Muscle
Cristian Dumitrescu
Advisor: Ruth Altschuld
Current Position: Product Line Manager at Avery Dennison Printer Solutions Division
Thesis: Excitation-contraction coupling and mechanical restitution in normal and failing rat hearts
Brian Palmer
Current Position: Director of Data Science at Gardner Business Media, Inc.
Thesis: Effects of low dose ACE inhibition with benazepril on myocardial beta-adrenergic function and profile in canine long term tachypacing-induced heart failure
Eun-Young Choi
Advisor: Charles Hille
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at NIH
Thesis: Studies on the reaction mechanism of the reductive half-reaction of Xanthine Oxidase
Hee-Jung Kim
Advisor: Mark Foster
Current Position: Chemical Abstracts
Jack Mullen
Advisor: Elizabeth Gross
Current Position: Research Associate Agricultural Biology at Colorado State University
William Ray
Advisor: Charles Daniels
Current Position: Principal Investigator/Associate Professor at Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University
Svetlana Tikunova
Advisor: Ruth Altschuld
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Yong Xiong
Advisor: M. Sundaralingam
Current Position: Professor Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University School of Medicine
Thesis: X-ray crystallographic studies on DNA-RNA hybrids and duplexes containing single bulges
Shumin Bian
Advisor: James Cowan & Elizabeth Gross
Current Position: Associate Research Scientist at Yale Medical School
Thesis: Fe-S proteins: cluster assembly and degradation
Fu-Chung Chang
Advisor: Richard Swenson
Current Position: Biotechnology Professional
Douglas Pearson, Jr.
Advisor: Elizabeth Gross
Current Position: Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Tusculum University
Allen Mitchell Phelps
Advisor: James Dalton
Current Position: Associate Professor Director, Pharmacoanalytical Shared Resource Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemist at The Ohio State University
Alexander Nikolay Starodub
Advisor: Jackie Wood
Current Position: Oncologist, MD at Riverside Peninsula Cancer Institute and Infusion Center
Oscar Alzate
Advisor: Donald Dean
Current Position: Science Writer at Grant Engine
Chi-Fon Chang
Advisor: Ming-Daw Tsai
Current Position: Research Specialist at Academia Sinica
Baocheng Pan
Advisor: M. Sundaralingam
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-sen University
Thesis: X-ray crystallographic studies on oligonucleotide structures containing non-watson-crick base pairs
Mahesh Narayan
Advisor: Lawrence Berliner
Current Position: Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Texas at El Paso
Exing Wang
Advisor: Douglas Pfeiffer
Current Position: Associate Director, Optical Imaging Facility and Associate Professor/Research in Cell Systems and Anatomy at UT San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Thesis: Multilinear analysis in fluorescence & ion transport by ionophores
Jonathan Davis
Advisor: Jack Rall
Current Position: Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology at The Ohio State University, College of Medicine
Prakash Narayan
Advisor: David Johnson
Current Position: VP, Preclinical Research
Thesis: Mechanical Alternans and The Force-Frequency Relationship in Failing Rat Hearts
Kapila Ratnam
Advisor: Charles Hille
Current Position: Partner at Newspring Capital
Thesis: Spectroscopic and Kinetic Characterization of Oxomolybdenum Enzymes
Justin O'Donnell
Advisor: Pierre-Marie Robitaille
Current Position: Associate Professor at Univ. Illinois, Chicago
Thesis: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Bioenergetics and Intermediary Metabolism
Jonathan P. Barley
Advisor: Carl Ingling
Current Position: Chief at the Ohio Department of Medicaid, Bureau of Health Research and Quality improvement
Thesis: Nonlinear B-cone input to the R-G channel explains the Abney, Tyndall and Guth effects
Sungjo Park
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic Medical School
Philip Wahr
Advisor: Jack Rall
Thesis: Determinants of the kinetics of force development and relaxation in skeletal muscle
Rama Kasturi
Current Position: Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Cincinnati
Thesis: Kinetics of calmodulin binding to its smooth muscle target proteins
Mark Pflieger
Current Position: Senior Scientist at Cortech Solutions, Inc.
Thesis: A theory of optimal event-related brain signal processors applied to omitted stimulus data
Lorraine Mary Rellick
Advisor: WJ Becktel
Thesis: Local packing densities and surface roughness of proteins
Stewart Durell
Advisor: Elizabeth Gross
Current Position: National Cancer Institute
Scott Grigsby
Advisor: Carl Ingling
Current Position: Director, Dayton Area Operations at PAR Government
Thesis: The phase shift between red- and green-sensitive mechanisms
Michael Higgins-Luthman
Advisor: Carl Ingling
Current Position: Resident Engineer at Joyson Safety Systems
Thesis: Chromatic masking of luminance contrast
Choon-Hwan Lee
Advisor: Elizabeth Gross & Robert Ross
Current Position: Professor at Pusan National University
Thesis: Multilinear analysis of fluorescence spectra of photosynthetic systems
Qian Li
Advisor: Brad Stokes
Current Position: Independent Health, Wellness and Fitness Professional
Thesis: Myocyte calcium dynamics and intracellular energy depletion
Vincent Billock
Advisor: Carl Ingling
Current Position: Lead Scientist, Physics at General Dynamics, Inc,US Air Force Research Laboratory
Thesis: Hue luminance multiplexing in type I r-g cells
John Mills
Advisor: David Johnson
James E. Draheim
Advisor: Joseph Cassim
Thesis: Structural analysis of the purple membrane using absorption and circular dichroism spectra
Eugenio Martinez
Advisor: Carl Ingling
Current Position: Senior Color Scientist at Hewlett-Packard
Thesis: Spatial temporal and spectral model of the X channel in human vision