Graduate Student Research Topics

Graduate Students

Jhashnath (Subin) Adhikari (Advisor:  Professor Luis Smith)
"Determination of Electric Field Gradients in Niobates Using Density Functional Theory"

Yun Cao (Advisor:  Professor Donald Crampton)
"Mitochondrial Helicase Interaction with Nucleic Acids"

Xi (Clara) Chen (Advisor:  Professor Frederick Greenaway)
"Structure and Function of Lysyl Oxidase"

Xiaorui (Sean) Chen (Advisor:  Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
"Phase Separation Behavior of Multifunctional Charge Conducting Polymers"

Robert Doyle (Advisor:  Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
"Backbone Effects on Polymer Charge Conduction"

Jue Fan (Advisor:  Professor Shuanghong Huo)
"Protein Folding and Misfolding"

Shuqui (Sue) Han (Advisor:  Professor Noel Lazo)
"Solution and Solid-state NMR Studies of Human Amylin in Membranes"

Gai (Grace) Liu (Advisor:  Professor Noel Lazo)
"Diffusion and Segmental Motion in a Nanocomposite"

Hanzhong (Fido) Liu (Advisor:  Sharon Huo)
"Protein-protein Ineraction"

Ting Liu (Advisor:  Professor Luis Smith)
"Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic-Organic Composite Solid Electrolytes"

Yan (Ricky) Meng (Advisor:  Professor Luis Smith)
"Dynamics in a PEO/PMMA – Ionomer Blend"

Kai Peng (Advisor:  Professor Frederick Greenaway)
"Inhibitors Study of Lysyl Oxidase"

Kevin Robbins (Advisor:  Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
"Using NMR Detected Ligands to Probe the Structure of IAPP"

Jamie Towle (Advisor:  Professor Donald Crampton)
"The Characterization of the Zinc Binding Domain of Mitochondrial Helicase"

Xuefeng Wang (Advisor:  Professor Luis Smith)
"Local Structure in Mesoporous Oxides"

Hao (Howard) Wu (Advisor:  Professor Shuanghong Huo)
"Monte Carlo Simulations of Protein Aggregation"