Members of the Lab
Research Assistant Professor
Michael Kio Ph.D. Cranfield University, United Kingdom (2015) Research Topics Dr Kio’s current research focuses on developing enhanced fouling release coating formulation. His research interests also include surface wettability and nanoparticle interaction with lipid bilayers for studies of drug delivery implementing molecular dynamics. |
Postdoctoral
Min-Kang Hsieh Ph.D. Columbia University (2018) Research Topics Min-Kang's research focuses on two areas of interest. He is doing research on some COVID-19 associated proteins that form oligomers that are important for the virus infection and he is probing the mechanism and structure in collaboration with Dr. Berger's lab at UVA. Min-Kang is also doing work on lipid membrane asymmetry with a focus on the inner membrane of Gram Negative bacteria. |
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Sharmistha Karmakar Ph.D. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, Inida (2019) Research Topics Sharmistha's research focuses on studies of Osh4 binding to anionic membrane models to probe the formation of membrane contact sites and how lipid composition influences protein binding. |
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Kyle Kihn Ph.D. Univeristy of Maryland - Baltimore Research Topics Kyle is a postdoc in Dr. Tina Brelidze's lab at Georgetown University and is part of the lab in this joint experimental and computational postdoc focusing on ion channel research and machine learning of these channels. |
Graduate Students
Tejaswi Tammareddy Ph.D. Student at University of Maryland-College Park (2019-) Research Topics
Tejaswi is interested in using simulations to probe biotech applications. Her current research is on CDK5 with its importance to neurological diseases. She is working with Dr. Cardone (NIST) on investigating inhibotors of the toxic p25 cleaved product of CDK5. | |
Jiyeon Min Ph.D. Student at University of Maryland-College Park (Biophysics; 2019-) Research Topics
Jiyeon is working as a co-advised student in Dr. Brooks' Lab at NIH. She is currently a biophysics student in my lab focused on measuring the free energy of binding of inositol molecules to model Arg peptides. Our goal is to compare with ITC experiments and adjust the force field if necessary. | |
Jessica Bodosa Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park (Biophysics, 2020-) Research Topics
Jessica has been a Biophysics rotation student in the lab focusing on the dimerization of the EmrE protein. She will also be starting research on metal ion binding to cell membranes. | |
Joshua Lucker M.S./Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park (Biophysics, 2020-) Research Topics
Joshua is working on extending the CHARMM36UAr model to sphingolipids and testing this force field with bilayer mixtures containing cholesterol. | |
Anthony Pane Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park (Biophysics, 2021-) Research Topics
Anthony is co-Advised by Dr. Richard Pastor (NIH/NHLBI) and is working on optimizatation of the phosphoserine lipid force field as his first project. | |
Kinjal Mondal Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park (Biophysics, 2022-) Research Topics
Kinjal started as a rotation student Fall 2022 and has joined the Klauda lab in Spring 2023. His work focuses on developing data on Lyase proteins to understand how these are involved in bacterial infections and how these can be used to reduce feed stock to produce chemicals. His work utilizes molecular simulation and machine learning for enzyme design. |
Undergraduate Students
Dai-Bao Van B.S. Chemistry (May 2021) Research Topics
Dai-Bao is working on modeling archeal membranes with ether-branched lipids as well as simulating AQP0 and its cataract forming mutants | |
Sasha Coates-Park B.S. Biochemistry (May 2022) Research Topics
Sasha is researching a plant hormone interacting with model plant membranes. | |
Joseph Kutza Materials Science and Engineering Research Topics
Joseph is investigating TLR receptors and sugar binding. He also is involved in work on FGF and tramatic brian injury. | |
Vincent Zhao Computer Science Research Topics
Vincent is focusing on developing membranes with Ladderane lipids for an interesting class of organisms that live in extreme conditions. | |
Sukrit Mangla Computer Science Research Topics
Sukrit is finishing up his training and will be starting on a project associated with CDK5 under the advisement of Tejaswi. | |
Nicholas Dadzie Biochemistry Research Topics
Nicholas has been working on modeling cell membranes with a future research project TBD | |
Nida Shah Bioengineering Research Topics
Nida is finishing up her training and will be starting on a project associated with CDK5 under the advisement of Tejaswi. This is part of the BIOE honor's program. | |
Tanya Budhiraja Bioengineering Research Topics
Tanya has been finishing up her training and has started working on a research project involving an accessory protein of SARS-CoV-2 and studying how it localizes to certain parts of the host cell. This is part of the BIOE honor's program. | |
Yash Porwal Physiology and Neurobiology Research Topics
Yash has been starting training on the computational tools used in the lab. | |
Abhi Senthikumar Chemical Engineering Research Topics
Abhi initially worked on simulations of cancer cell membranes with Dr. Kio. He has sense focused on membrane-active peptides in collaboration with Prof. Karlsson | |
Emily Davies Computer Science Research Topics
Emily is currently learning how to simulate and analyze cell membrane models | |
Anjola Akintoba Bioengineering Research Topics
Dan is currently learning how to simulate and analyze cell membrane models | |
Daniel Erickson Bioengineering Research Topics
Anjola is currently learning how to simulate and analyze cell membrane models | |
Neelay Sachdevan Bioengineering Research Topics
Neelay is currently learning how to simulate and analyze cell membrane models | |
Sho Sniderman Takeshita Computer Science and Biology Research Topics
Sho is focused on developing models membranes of microgilia towards interest in interactions with the Abeta-peptide and Alzheimer's Disease. |
High School Students
Mehul Goyal Montomergy Blair High School (Math/Science/CS Magnet Program) Research Topics
Mehul is learning how to run to run simulations of simple membrane models. He will then be working on studying the action of antimicrobial peptides produced by frogs. |