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Nov 17, 2017 (from left to right: Cihan Kaya, Luca Ponzoni, Mary Cheng, James Krieger, Ivet Bahar, Lauren Zufall, Hongchun Li, Fen Pei, John Zhang and Yan Zhang).

Other Alumni

Sophie Liu

Undergraduate researcer
Undergraduate, B.S. in Computational Biology at CMU
Research Interests: Structural biology, protein dynamics, comp bio

Behrgen Smith

TECBio Student
Undergraduate, Biomolecular Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Research Interests: Structural biology, drug discovery, comp bio

Anna Reinhard

Bahar Lab Administrator, Assistant to the Chair
BA Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Duties: Provides project management and research administration support to the Bahar Lab.

Zakaria L.Dahmani

Pre-doctoral Researcher
Masters' in Bioinformatics for Drug Design, Universities of Paris, Strasbourg and Milan
Research Interests: Prot struct dynamics, Conformation sampling algorithms, Data science applied to drug dev, Cryo-EM model.

Fangyuan Chen (Chelsea)

Visiting Scholar
8-year MD Program of Tsinghua University, China
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, genomics and molecular dynamics.

Shann-Ching Chen

Senior Scientist, Compal, San Francisco
PhD in Biomed Eng, CMU
Research: Comp Bio, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics

Jocelynne Dorotan

Undergraduate
Current Pitt student with a double major in Molecular Biology and Spanish.
Research Interests: Protein structure and dynamics and protein-ligand interactions.

Yan Gu

China U of Sci & Tech
PhD Cand in Comp Biol, China U of Sci & Tech
Research: Mol dynamics sim sampling methods; Free energy calculations; Elastic network model.

Feizhuo Kaitlyn Hu

PhD student in Pharmacology, Tsinghua University
BS in Pharmacy, Tsinghua U
Research: Computer-aided discovery of druggable allosteric sites.

Dr. Guang Hu

Associate Professor, Center for Sys Biol, Soochow U
PhD in Phys Chem, Lanzhou U, China
Research: DNA topology, Network analysis of proteins, Meta-analysis of 'omic' data.

Chang Liu

Product Manager, Facebook
Co-Founder, Moment Dating

Integrative Mol Biol, U of Pittsburgh
Research: Computational aided drug discovery.

Wenzhi Mao

PhD student in Pharmacology, Tsinghua University
BS in Pharmacy, Tsinghua U
Research: Development and integration of software tools for modeling protein-drug interactions.

Enrique Marcos

Ramon y Cajal Researcher, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB, Department of Structural Biology
PhD in Comp Chem, U of Barcelona
Research: Sequence-structure-function of NAGK proteins; ANM dynamics.

Zuhal Ozcan

PhD Student at U of Texas, Health Science Center, Department of Integrative Biol & Pharmacol, Houston
Research: Mol dynamics, struct bioinformatics, ubiquitin, GPCRs.

Dr. Ana Ligia Scott

Associate Professor III, CMCC-Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição, UFABC - LBCB, Brazil
PhD in Mol Biophys, UNESP, Brazil
Research Interests: Bioinformatics and mol modeling.

Qingya Shi (Hannah)

Visiting Scholar
8-year MD Program of Tsinghua University, China
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, modeling, quantitative systems pharmacology

Dr. Mustafa Tekpinar

PhD in Phys, U at Buffalo, NY
Research: Enzyme dynamics, molecular motors, GPU programming.

Dr. Guangya Zhang

Dept of Bioeng & Biotech, Huaqiao U
PhD in Biochem Eng, Huaqiao U, China
Research: Sequence/structure analysis and design of enzymes.

Awishi Mondal

Masters Summer Intern
M.Sc. in Biophys and Molec Bio, Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta
Research Interests: Finding structure-function relationship of proteins using computational tools, Protein-Protein Interactions