Mark Bathe Samuel A. Goldblith Assistant Professor of Applied Biology
Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Postdoctoral Associates
Jun He, Ph.D. Brown University
Research interests: Cytoskeletal dynamics of contractile ring assembly and contraction in fission yeast.
Do-Nyun Kim, Ph.D. MIT
Research interests: Cryo-EM-based structure determination of conformationally flexible molecules and cytoskeletal polymer dynamics.
Aprotim Mazumder, Ph.D. National Center for Biological Sciences, TIFR
Research interests: Single-cell transcriptional and translational dynamics under environmental stress.
Kirill Titievsky, Ph.D. MIT
Research interests: Image analysis and inverse modeling of cytoskeletal dynamics mediating chromosome transport during oocyte meiosis.
Graduate Students
Philip Bransford Biological Engineering
Co-advised by R.D. Kamm
Research interests: Sequence analysis and high-content screening for determination of cadherin specificity.
Nilah Monnier Harvard Biophysics Program
Research interests: Actin-based chromosome transport and cytoskeletal dynamics of wound healing.
Adrian Randall Computational and Systems Biology Rotation Student
Research interests: Computational modeling of synthetic circuits in yeast.
Reza Sharifi Sedeh Mechanical Engineering
Co-advised by K.J. Bathe
Research interests: Evolutionary sequence conservation and numerical methods for simulation of large-scale macromolecular assemblies.
Undergraduate Students
Alexandra Manick Materials Science & Engineering
Research interests: Computational design of DNA-based nanostructures and machines.
Cong-Tri Nguyen Visiting Student, Nanyang Technological University
Research interests: Integration of protein structure and conservation data for inference of protein-protein networks.
Erik Olague Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Research interests: Computational design of DNA-based nanostructures and machines.
Parama Pal Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Research interests: Computer vision and hierarchical clustering techniques for analysis of chromosome dynamics during cell division.
Brianna Petrone Biology
Research interests: Unsupervised learning and classification techniques for characterization of F-actin network structure and dynamics.
Arvind Thiagarajan Intended major: Biological Engineering and Physics
Research interests: Computational design of DNA-based nanostructures and machines.