Ph.D. Students

Ewy Mathe, GMU, 2000-2005
Research topic: "Computational Approaches to Study Functional and Structural Effects of Single Point Mutants"

Vadim Ravich, GMU, 2000-2005
Research topic: "Computational Studies of Structure and Function of HIV Reverse Transcriptase"

Todd Taylor, GMU, 2000-2006
Research topic: "Large Scale Analysis of Real and Model Protein Structures using Delaunay Tessellation"

Majid Masso, GMU, 2000-2006
Research topic: "Functional Analysis of HIV-1 Protease Using Statistical Geometry"

Gregory Reck, GMU, 2000-2006
Research topic: "Adaptation and Use of Four-Body Statistical Potential to Examine Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Protein Precursors Leading to the Formation of Amyloid Fibrils"

Andrew Carr, GMU, 2000-2006
Research topic: "A Computational Geometry Machine Learning Approach as Applied to Protein Structure and Function"

Tariq Alsheddy, GMU
Research topic: "A Computational Geometry Approach to the Analysis of the Structure-Function Relationship in b Proteins"

Yonas Mehari, GMU

Yan Ding, GMU

Bill Zhang, GMU

Yong Luo, GMU

Addepalli Kanaka Durga, GMU
 
 

Ph.D. Rotation Students

David Bostick, UNC, 1999
Research topic: "A New Topological Method to Measure Protein Structure Similarity based on the Delaunay Tessellation"

Ruchir Shah, UNC, 1999
Research topic: "Computational Geometry Analysis of Protein Structure"

Xiang Deng, UNC, 1999
Research topic: "Computational Geometry Study of Inhibitor Complexes with HIV-1 Proteases"

Hrishikesh Deshmuk, GMU, 2002
Research topic: "Residues encoded by complimentary codons in three-dimensional protein structures"

Chun-Lung Wang, GMU, 2004
Research topic: "Development of a Web Interface for the Delaunay Based Computational Geometry Applications"

Prabhu Raman, GMU, 2004
Research topic: "Evidence of Influence of Mekler-Idlis Pairing on Intraprotein Residue-Residue Contacts"

Sunita Kumari, GMU, 2004
Research topic: "Structural Analysis of Y Family of DNA Polymerases"

Mark Porter, GMU, 2004
Research topic: "Residue Clustering in Three-Dimensional Protein Structures Studied using Delaunay Tessellation and Distance-Based Methods"

Yong Luo, GMU, 2005
Research topic: "Topological and Structural Changes in Protein in the Course of Molecular Dynamics Simulation"
 

M.S. Students

Bo Zheng, UNC, 2000
Research topic: "Statistical Geometry Analysis of Protein Structure using Delaunay Tessellation"

Wes Wiggins, GMU, 2002
Research topic: "Structural Analysis of TP53 Tumor Suppressor Protein Mutants"

Glenda Wilson, GMU, 2003
Research topic: "Protein Secondary Structure Assignment Based on a Simple Topological Descriptor"

Narendra Kambam, GMU, 2003
Research topic: "Computational Geometry Study of HIV-1 Protease-Inhibitor Complexes"

Aruna Tibriwal, GMU, 2003
Research topic: "Prediction of Active-Sites and Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity in Proteins using Computational Geometry Approach"

Jiang Qiao, GMU, 2004
Research topic: "Comparison of Ordered and Disordered Regions in Proteins: A Statistical Geometry Approach"

Zhong Yin, GMU, 2005
Research topic: "Computational Geometry Study of SARS Coronavirus Main Protease"

Aruna Muthuluru, GMU, 2005
Research topic: "Blocking the anthrax protective antigen transmembrane pore using small molecules"

Yonas Mehari, GMU, 2005
Research topic: "Preparing and Optimizing -Cyclodextrin Derivative for CoMFA and Docking Studies"

Saraswathi Rajamani, GMU, 2005
Research topic: "Computational Geometry Study of Structural Properties of Ordered and Disordered Regions in Proteins"
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Margarita Rivera, UNC, 1999-2000
Research topic: "Residue Hydrophobicities Measures and Protein Secondary Structure Assignment Based on a Simple Topological Descriptor"

Zhibin Lu (visiting scientist), UNC, 1999-2000
Research topic: "Algorithm and Program Development for Protein Tessellation and Study of Computational Mutagenesis"