People

Fengbin Wang (Jerry)

Principal Investigator
Ph.D.: UW-Madison -> Rice University (George Phillips Jr.)
Postdoc: University of Virginia (Ed Egelman)
Email: jerrywang at uab.edu


Ayisha Zia

Researcher V
Research interests: structural and computational biology
Email: ziaa at uab.edu


Jessie Fields

Graduate student (Micro)
Research Interests: Bacterial physiology and pathogenesis
Email: jfields4 at uab.edu


Shane Rich-New

Graduate student (BSB)
Research interest: peptide material and self-assembly
Email: srichnew at uab.edu


Gunnar Eastep

MSTP student (CMDB)
Research interest: Macromolecular complexes and their assembly
Email: gunnar99 at uab.edu


Holly Petersen

Graduate student (BSB)
Research interest: Protein structural role on drug discovery
Email: hpeterse at uab.edu


Lauren Fielding

Graduate student (BSB, primarily mentored by Dr. Volpicelli-Daley
Research interest: Neurodegenerative disease
Email: lfieldin at uab.edu


Tomasz Osinski (Tomek)

Computing Consultant
Email: osinski at usc.edu


Ella

Volunteer
Research Interest: bird migration


Alumni and/or previous trainees

Lana Egorova

Rotation student (CMDB)
Research interest: Fancy Genetics
Email: megorova at uab.edu


Leti Beltrán

Current: Postdoc (Institut Pasteur)
Previous: Graduate student (UVA)
Email: leticia.beltran at pasteur.fr
"Feel free to reach me if you have questions about Jerry as a mentor or mentoring style!" -Leti


Nathan Bellis

Rotation student (BSB)
Research interest: Fancy structure biology
Email: nfbellis at uab.edu


Nhi Nguyen

Rotation student (BSB)
Research interest: How proteins interact with other molecules Email: nnguyen3 at uab.edu


Chibuzo Nwokafor

Rotation student (Micro)
Research interest: Fancy microbiology
Email: nwokafor at uab.edu


Sajal K. Halder

Rotation student (BSB)
Research interest: Drug design, Chemical biology, Biochemistry, Cancer biology.
Email: shalder at uab.edu


Joey Olmos

Graduate student (Rice)
Email: joseluisolmosjr at gmail.com 


Eileen Brady

Undergraduate (Rice)
Email: Ebrady at uw.edu 
Current: MD/PHD student, University of Washington


What we do

Use cryo-EM to understand and design large assemblies

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