Group 2024
Margaret E. Johnson
Principal Investigator
Johns Hopkins University
School of Arts & Sciences
121C Mergenthaler
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
phone: 410-516-2376
email: [email protected]
Positions
We have positions available for graduate students interested in applying theory, modeling, and computational approaches to understanding dynamical systems in cell biology, control and design of self-assembly for living systems, and protein-driven membrane remodeling.
Post-doc applicants must have programming experience.
Current Group Members
Dr Sikao Guo
Postdoc
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Dr Sam Foley
Postdoc
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Mankun Sang
PhD Student, Biophysics
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Moon Ying
PhD Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Jonathan Fischer
PhD Student, Cell, Mol, Dev Biol and Biophysics
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Smriti Chhibber
PhD Student, Biophysics
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Yijia Guo
Master’s Student, Chem and Biomolecular Engineering
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Sho Takeshita
PhD Student, Biophysics
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Tatum Marye
Undergraduate Biophysics
Ezra Greenberg
Undergraduate Applied Math
Denys Vasyutyn
Undergraduate Amgen Scholar
Sofia Floody
Undergraduate Biophysics
Arif Zempalle
Undergraduate Chem BE
Group Alumni
| Trainee name | position in lab | years in lab | current position |
| GRAD STUDENTS | |||
| Adip Jhaveri | grad student, Biophysics | 2020-2025 | post-doc |
| David Holland | grad student, BME | 2013-2017 | data science, Axle informatic |
| POST DOCS | |||
| Dr. Yiben Fu | post-doc | 2018-2023 | Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, South China University of Technology |
| Dr. Sikao Guo | post-doc | 2020-2025 | Research engineer, Inria, France |
| Dr. Bhavya Mishra | post-doc | 2019-2021 | post-doc, York University |
| Dr. Matthew Varga | post-doc | 2017-2019 | Ambry Genetics |
| Dr. Osman Yogurtcu | post-doc | 2013-2017 | Senior scientist, FDA |
| Dr. Dariush Mohammadyani | post-doc | 2016-2018 | Applied Biomath, R&D |
| Dr. Sewwandi Rathnayake | post-doc | 2016-2019 | Vaxcyte |
| MASTERS STUDENTS | |||
| Zixiu (Hugh) Liu | MS, Chem BE | 2021-2022 | Industry |
| Adip Jhaveri | MS, Chem BE | 2019-2020 | see above. |
| Yasmin Moghadamnia | MS, Biophysics | 2018-2020 | PhD Student, Delaware |
| Benjamin Shapiro | MS, Applied Math | 2016 | MD |
| HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS | |||
| Hasini Sade | high school intern | 2023-2024 | high school |
| Ian Herzog-Pohl | High school honors project | 2023 | undergrad, U Pitt |
| Nevonah Darden | BRBT intern | 2019 | |
| Taqeeya Cason | BRBT intern | 2018 | |
| Mekhi Closson | BRBT intern | 2017 | undergrad, Howard Univ |
| UNDERGRADUATES | |||
| Gabe Au | undergrad, biophysics | 2022-2025 | PhD student, MIT Biology |
| Achyuth Parola | undergrad, biophysics | 2022-2025 | MS student, Harvard |
| Hassan Sohail | undergrad, biophysics | 2023-2025 | postbac, Rockefeller |
| Hannah Roscom | undergrad, NIH MARC U* | 2024 | PhD program, Univ Alabama |
| Atahan Akdeniz | undergrad, Chem BE | 2023-2024 | JHU |
| Samia Balogun | undergrad, biophysics | 2023-2024 | JHU |
| Ezra Greenberg | undergrad, Applied Math | 2023-2024 | JHU |
| Yufeng Du | undergrad, biophysics | 2022-2024 | JHU |
| Kazi Saad | undergrad, biophysics | 2022 | JHU |
| Livia Huang | undergrad, biophysics | 2022 | JHU |
| Samantha Camp | undergrad, biophysics | 2021-2022 | Medical School |
| Millie Lewis | undergrad, Amgen Scholar | 2021 | PhD program |
| Adam Nachurski | undergrad, biophysics | 2021 | MS program |
| Jackie Chang | undergrad, biophysics | 2020-2022 | finance |
| Spencer Loggia | undergrad, comp sci | 2018-2021 | PhD, neuroscience, Brown |
| Yian Qian | undergrad, applied math | 2020-2023 | PhD, Applied Math, Brown |
| Nomongo Dorjsuren | undergrad, biophysics | 2019-2021 | |
| Nandan Kulkarni | undergrad, math | 2019-2022 | PhD, Math, NYU |
| Meretta Hanson | undergrad, Amgen Scholar | 2019 | PhD, neuroscience, OSU |
| Jack Simone | undergrad, biophysics | 2019-2020 | |
| Wilson Hu | undergrad, biophysics | 2019-2020 | |
| Noah Lu | undergrad, BME | 2019-2020 | |
| Dhruw Maisuria | undergrad, biophysics | 2018-2020 | MD, MUSC |
| Christopher Leung | undergrad, biophysics | 2018-2020 | MD, Georgetown Univ |
| Daisy Duan | undergrad, biophysics | 2016-2019 | PhD, Yale Univ |
| Benjamin Shapiro | undergrad, applied math | 2014-2016 | MD, Brown Univ |
| Athena Chen | undergrad, biophysics | 2015-2017 | PhD, JHU. Now Data scientist, Gate Bioscience |
| Pei Xue | undergrad, biophysics | 2014-2015 |
Group Photos
Spring 2023, Group Photo
