Members of the Lab
High School
Allen Cheng Poolesville High School in the Science, Math, and Computer Science magnet program (June 2011) Research Topics First, worked on develping a GUI-based program for obtaining gas hydrate phase diagrams with the Klauda/Sandler fugacity-based model. Then, studied asphaletene aggregation with model compounds. Placement B.S. UMD (Materials Science and Engineering) |
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Josh Nichols Eleanor Roosevelt High School in the Science and Technology (S/T) program (June 2013) Research Topics Investigated the accuracy of the CHARMM36 lipid force field as a funciton of temperture for PC lipids. Placement B.S. UMD (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) |
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Michael Lu Eleanor Roosevelt High School in the Science and Technology (S/T) program (June 2014) Research Topics Investigated the accuracy of the CHARMM36 lipid force field for a ceramide lipid. Placement B.S. UMD (Undecided Engineering) |
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Anna Ou Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD Research Topics Anna focused on MD simulations of PUFA lipids (18:2 and 18:3 chains) with modeling of soybean plasma membranes. Placement B.S. UC-Berekely (Molecular Biology-Premed) |
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Michelle Marsandi Eleanor Roosevelt High School in the Science and Technology (S/T) program (Fall 2016-Spring 2017) Research Topics Michelle focused on chemical stress on bacterial membranes. Placement UMD |
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Andrew Selvadoss Poolesville High School in the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science magnet program (June 2018) Research Topics Andrew studied the effects of ethanol and a dual bilayer setup to mimic the cellular membrane concentration profile. Placement TBD |
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Muhamad Zakaria Al-Huda School in College Park, MD Research Topics Muhamad probed the effects of octanoic acid on model E. coli membranes to better understand bacterial tolerance to chemical production.. Placement TBD |
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Alan Li Montgomery Blair High School: Science, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program Research Topics Alan researched the ion channel alpha-hemolysin and studying its conductance as a function of the membrane environment. Placement TBD |
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Leslie Wang Marriotts Ridge High School Research Topics Leslie learned about bacterial membranes and how to run simulations. She focused on antimicrobial peptides produced by frogs. Placement TBD |