PhD Students
Email: slu3@wpi.edu
I am a Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program and my advisor is Dmitry Korkin. My research focus is on modeling complex systems. My dissertation work is on modeling protein physical interactome for various biological systems. My research also involves uncovering mechanisms of complex diseases including depression and cancer with different modalities of data by machine learning.
Email: smadha@wpi.edu
I am a PhD student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, advised by Dmitry Korkin. My research work will be focused on alternative splicing analysis. Prior to starting at WPI, I earned my BS from Rochester Institute of Technology, where I did research on positional protein motifs. After RIT, I worked at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, focused on the analysis of mouse intestinal epigenetic and transcriptomic data.
Email: hsun2@wpi.edu
I am a Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology under the joint mentorship of Scarlet Shell and Dmitry Korkin. My research focuses on addressing questions relating to gene regulation and mRNA metabolism in mycobacteria with focus on refined understanding of mRNA degradation mechanism.
Email: jtourtellotte@wpi.edu
Jocelyn is a BCB PhD Candidate in the Grunwald Lab at the RTI at UMMS as part of the WPI/UMMS Joint Program. Her focus is NPCs, mitochondria and intergenomic communication. She also studies lab-based Lyme Disease surveillance methods for the MDPH. She earned an MPH concentrated in epi/biostats, studying MIIS data fidelity for childhood immunization rates. As an undergrad, she studied math and philosophy at BC. ...