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Robinson Laboratory, 2015 Kwame Heyward Devesh Radhakrishnan Chris O'Brien Melissa St. Amand Anne Skaja Robinson Patrick McNeely Nikki Ross Anvar Samadzoda Andrea Natalia Naranjo Erazo

 




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Graduate Students



Claire McGraw

Phone: 504-314-2921
Email: cmcgraw1@tulane.edu

Education:
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2012

Research:
Understanding the role of membrane cholesterol in expression, trafficking and downstream signaling of G-Protein coupled receptors.
Claire McGraw


Danny Oseid

Phone: 504-314-2921
Email: doseid@tulane.edu

Education:
B.S., Neuroscience, University of St. Thomas, 2014

Research:
Understanding the impact of oxidative stress on tau phosphorylation and aggregation in the context of neurodegeneration.

Danny Oseid


Abhinav Jain

Phone: 504-314-2921
Email: ajain6@tulane.edu

Education:
B.Tech Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2010
MChE Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2013


Research:
Development of an in vivo GPCR – G-protein functional coupling and activity assay.

Abhinav Jain


Kirsten Swonger

Phone: 504-314-2921
Email: kswonger@tulane.edu

Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2012

Research:
Determining ligand binding kinetics and thermostability for a variety of wild-type and mutated adenosine receptors as expressed in yeast.

Kirsten Swonger


Evan Wells

Phone: 504-314-2921
Email: ewells4@tulane.edu

Education:
B.A., Chemistry, East Carolina University, 2013
B.S., Biochemistry, East Carolina University, 2013

Research:
Characterizing the stability and aggregation propensity of human IgG1 Fc.


Gülsüm Meriç

Phone: 504-314-2921
Email: gmeric@udel.edu

Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, John Hopkins University

Research:
Rational design of non-native aggregation resistant protein variants/ mutants using various computational conformational stability and intrinsic aggregation propensity change prediction tools. Expression and extensive biophysical characterization of these variants.

Gülsüm was a visiting student from University of Delaware (August 2015-August 2016)
Co-Advised by Chris Roberts
Gulsum Meric


Christopher O'Brien

Email: cjobrien@udel.edu

Education:
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010

Research:
Studying the non-native aggregation of multi-domain proteins, with a particular interest on understanding the role of protein properties such as interface contacts in aggregation resistance during biopharmaceutical storage.

Co-advised by Chris Roberts
(At University of Delaware)
Christopher O'Brien


Anvar Samadzod

Phone: 302-831-6642
Email: aanvars@udel.edunvars@udel.edu

Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2007)

Research:
Characterization of protein-detergent complexes (PDCs) of a GPCR, the A2a receptor (hA2aR). The objective is to leverage prior studies of the Lenhoff group on phase behavior and crystallizability and findings of the Robinson lab on overexpression of hA2aR and PDC characterization for further identification of parameters governing PDC structure and interactions in the hA2aR system.

Co-advised with Bramie Lenhoff
(At University of Delaware)
Anvar Samadzod

PostDoctoral Fellows

 

Undergraduate Students

                • Sierra Lear ('18)
                • Annie Tir ('18)
                • Chris Aubin ('18)

PostDoctoral Fellows 




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