PhD Projects Academic Year 2015-16

Abraham, Nathan

  • Advisor: Shirts
  • Project Title: Understanding and predicting the thermodynamics of crystalline materials

Andreson, Alex

  • Advisor: Bowman/Bryant
  • Project title: Biological uptake and behavior of click nucleic acid polymers

Barnhill, Cody

  • Advisor: Holewinski
  • Project Title: Design of electrocatalysts for total oxidation of liquid organics in fuel cells

Bull, David

  • Advisor:
  • Project title: ÌýIn Progress

Chaparro Sosa, Andres

  • Advisor: Kaar/Schwartz
  • Project title: Single-Molecule Characterization of Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics on Material Surfaces

Childress, Kimberly

  • Advisor: Stansbury
  • Project title: Simultaneous UV-Vis/FT-NIR analysis of photo-initiation and polymerization

Chowdhury, Partha Pratim

  • Advisor: Nagpal/Chatterjee
  • Project title: Research in Nanobio sequencing and therapeutics

Coscia, Benjamin

  • Advisor: Shirts/Gin/Noble
  • Project title: Modeling Transport through nanoporous liquid crystal polymer membranes

Daniels, Austin

  • Advisor: Randolph
  • Project title: Computational approaches for analyzing subvisible particles in therapeutic protein solutions

Delluva, Alexander

  • Advisor: Holewinski
  • Project title: Development of reversible air electrodes for lithium-air batteries

Dunn, Collin

  • Advisor: Noble/Gin
  • Project title: CO2 separation from CH4 using mixed matrix membranes

Falatach, Rebecca

  • Advisor: Kaar/Schwartz
  • Project title: Single-Molecule Characterization of Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics on Material Surfaces

Goodrich, J. Taylor

  • Advisor: Bowman
  • Project title: Smart, Responsive Materials Based on Covalent Adaptable Networks

Harris, Alexander

  • Advisor: Cha/Goodwin
  • Project title: Catalytic Synthesis of High-Value and High-Energy Products from Bacterial Metabolites

Hjortness, Michael

  • Advisor: Fox
  • Project title: Health: Enzymatic Evolution of Therapeutic Inhibitors

Hongdusit, Akarawin

  • Advisor: Fox
  • Project title: Photoswitchable Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases for Optical Control of Intracellular Signaling

Kanhaiya, Krishan

  • Advisor: Heinz
  • Project title: Understanding corrosion of Ni-Cr-Al and Mo-Si-B alloys in 3D atomic resolution

Korshoj, Lee

  • Advisor: Chatterjee/Nagpal
  • Project title: Single cell, single molecule sequencing for infectious diseases using Quantum Molecular Sequencing

Manubay, Bryce

  • Advisor: Shirts
  • Project title: Reconceptualizing force field creation though a novel probabilistic framework

Mark, Lesli

  • Advisor: Medlin
  • Project title: Catalyst Design for Selective Deoxygenation of Biomass-derived Oxygenates

McGrath, Michael

  • Advisor: Noble/Gin
  • Project title: Modification of nanoporous lyotropic liquid crystal polymer membranes for the separation of low-molecular-weight organic solutes in aqueous mixtures

Mishra, Ashutosh

  • Advisor: Medlin
  • Project title: Catalyst Design for Selective Deoxygenation of Biomass-derived Oxygenates

Mishra, Ipsita

  • Advisor: Hrenya
  • Project title: Using Solid Particles as Heat Transfer "Fluid"

Richardson, Benjamin

  • Advisor: Anseth
  • Project title: Biomaterial Matrices to Promote Tissue Regeneration

Ruppe, Alexander

  • Advisor: Fox
  • Project title: Energy: Engineering Flux in Biosynthetic Pathways for Fuels and Chemicals

Saleh, Leila

  • Advisor: Bryant
  • Project title: The foreign body response in tissue engineering

Smyth, Ryan

  • Advisor: Randolph
  • Project title: Protein stabilization

Wang, Shiyi

  • Advisor: Heinz
  • Project title: Design ofÌýnanoalloy Pt-MÌýcatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction and electrode materials