Maggie, Mankun, Moon, Sam, Sho, Tatum, and Smriti
Group 2026
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 Post-docs (NOW!) and graduate students interested in applying theory, modeling, and computation (including ML/AI) 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 Sam Foley
Postdoc
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Moon Ying
PhD Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Smriti Chhibber
PhD Student, Biophysics
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Sho Takeshita
PhD Student, Biophysics
121 Mergenthaler
[email protected]
Tatum Marye
Undergraduate Applied Math/Biophysics
Daanish Bassi
Undergraduate Chem BE
Urnabati Roy
Undergraduate Biophysics
Ezra Greenberg
Undergraduate Applied Math/Biophysics
Group Alumni
| Trainee name | position in lab | years in lab | current position |
| GRAD STUDENTS | |||
| Mankun Sang | grad student, Biophysics | 2021-2025 | postdoc, Prof J Higgins Harvard MGH |
| Jonathan Fischer | grad student, Biology | 2021-2025 | industry |
| Adip Jhaveri | grad student, Biophysics | 2020-2025 | postdoc, Prof Greg Bowman UPenn |
| David Holland | grad student, BME | 2013-2017 | data science, Axle informatics |
| POST DOCS | |||
| Dr. Sikao Guo | post-doc | 2020-2025 | Research engineer, Inria, France |
| Dr. Yiben Fu | post-doc | 2018-2023 | Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, South China University of Technology |
| 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 | |||
| Yijia Guo | MS, Chem BE | 2024-2025 | JHU |
| 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 | |||
| Ezra Greenberg | undergrad, Applied Math & biophysics | 2023-2025 | Jewish studies, Israel |
| Denys Vasyutyn | undergrad, Amgen scholar | 2025 | NYU |
| Sofia Floody | undergrad, biophysics & CS | 2025 | MS CS, JHU |
| Arif Zempalle | undergrad, ChemBE | 2024-2025 | JHU |
| 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 |
| 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, Baylor College Medicine |
| 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
Congratulations to Dr. Adip Jhaveri on your PhD!! Good luck on your postdoc at UPenn! May 2025
Congrats and best wishes to our awesome (former!) undergrad researchers, Achyuth, Gabe, and Hassan! May 2025
Lab photo with undergrads, Fall 2024
Spring 2023, Group Photo
