The Molecular Biophysics Training Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
MBTG Students
 Mark Arcario
marcar2@illinois.edu
Biophysics and Computational Biology/MSP
Ross Bodnar
ybodna2@illinois.edu
Biophysics and Computational Biology
Emmanuel Chanco
chanco1@illinois.edu
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Mary Clay
clay3@illinois.edu
Chemistry
 Helen Hwang
hhwang21@illinois.edu
Bioengineering
Paween Mahinthichaichan
mahinth1@illinois.edu
Biochemistry
Taejin Min
tmin3@illinois.edu
Physics
David Papke
dpapke@illinois.edu
Neuroscience/MSP
Kenneth Tussey
tussey1@illinois.edu
Biophysics and Computational Biology

Past MBTG Students

Jeffrey Brown
Utilization of electrophysiological techniques to study how the mechanics of an animal's environment and morphology dictate its neural organization
Won-tak Choi
Studies of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor and its interactions with chemokines and novel synthetic peptides
Sharlene Denos
Sub-microsecond folding dynamics of protein folding on membranes and in the presence of macromolecular crowders
John Eargle
Bioinformatics and molecular dynamics of the EF-Tu:GTP:aa-tRNA ternary complex
Youssef Elias
Structural and Biochemical studies of DNA/RNA modifying enzymes

Bradley Evans
Using FT-ICR mass spectrometry as a tool in the engineering and discovery of nonribosomal peptide synthetase

Sharon Fluss
Evan Graves
Cooperative force production by multiple molecular motors
Rajarsi Gupta
Non-invasive monitoring of cerebral hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation in the cortical brain with near-infrared spectroscopy
Melinda Hoffman
Single Molecule FRET Measurements of MscL (Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance) Conformatinoal Changes
Matthew Levengood
Investigation of the Substrate Specificity of Lacticin 481 Synthetase and Utilization in Peptide Engineering Applications

Andrew Nieuwkoop
Protein Structure Determination with Solid State NMR would be mine

Ulai Noomnarm
Pressure Jump Induced Relaxation Kinetics of Nucleic Acids
Christopher Salnave
Jonathan Silvestre
Microfluidic platforms for the investigation of integrin-cadherin
synergies in human breast cancer
Lindsay Sperling
Biological Solid-State NMR
David Tanner
Aaron Virshup
Mechanisms of environmental control over photochemistry
using first-principles quantum dynamical simulations of photochemical
reactions
John-Paul Yu
Crystallographic studies of signal transduction proteins