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 UMD (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) |
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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 |
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Afsa Khawar North County High School (STEM Program, 2022) Research Topics Afsa learn how to run molecular dynamics simulations of model bacterial membrane and provide details on the structure and function of these complex membranes. Placement Duke University (Biology) |