Max participated in our 2020 Summer Program for the literature review. He was also the current member of the Liang Lab. He double-majors in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory. Max’s projects with the Liang Lab included developing an effective way of solubilizing membrane protein and characterizing its structure through single-particle cryo-EM.
Undergraduate Student: May 2020 - August 2020
Inesh Gooneratne
Inesh participated in our 2020 Summer Program for the literature review. He was the existing member of the Liang Lab. He studies Chemistry and Biology at Emory. Besides working with the Liang Lab, Inesh volunteers at the Winship Cancer Institute.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - Aug. 2020
Cristopher Mera
Cris participated in our 2020 Summer Program for the literature review. He was also the current member of the Liang Lab. He majors in Biology at Emory. He joined the Liang Lab to work on the literature review. In addition, Cris serves as a Family Head Mentor of Emory’s QuestFAM program and the fundraising coordinator for MEDLIFE.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - August 2020
Jollin Tran
Jollin is a Vietnamese-American born and raised in GA. She majored in Biology and minored in Computer Science at Georgia State University (GSU). Jollin was also the secretary of the Undergraduate STEM Research Society while she was participating in our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - July 2020
Alexandria Jefferson
Alexandria is originally from Snellville, GA. She studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia (UGA). Prior to joining our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review, Alexandria conducted cancer biology research in Dr. Harold T. Spencer’s laboratory at Emory University’s Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Department.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - July 2020
Madeleine Stoffle
Madeleine is from Johns Creek, GA. She studied Chemistry at the University of Georgia. She previously worked as a chemistry lab teaching assistant and had been researching the effects of point mutations on the structure and activity of Homo Sapiens kynureninase at UGA. She joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - Aug. 2020
Clyde Schmidt
Clyde was an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia (UGA). He joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - Aug. 2020
Hewitt Mesfin
Hewitt joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - Aug. 2020
Misha Ul-Islam
Misha is originally from Monroe, LA. She double-majored in Biology with an emphasis in Neuroscience and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia (UGA). Back in her high school, she conducted secondary research on Bcl-2 protein, found in many cancers, as well as protein F, found in Nipah Virus. Misha joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
Undergraduate Intern: May 2020 - Aug. 2020
Aayush Patel High School Intern
Aayush is originally from Austin, TX. He was a rising junior from Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) when he joined the Liang Lab. He also won a first-place ribbon in his school for his experiment on the Next-Generation Sequencing. Aayush returned to the 2020 Program after joining the 2019 Summer Program to work on literature review.
High School Intern: June 2020 - July 2020
Callie is from the Atlanta-metro area. She was a rising junior from Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) when she joined the Liang Lab. She was awarded the Academic Excellence in both Engineering and Literature. She returned to the 2020 Program after joining the 2019 Summer Program to work on NRNA and M2-1 protein.
High School Intern: June 2020 - July 2020
Sebastian Horbulewicz
Sebastian was born and raised near Lawrenceville, GA. He was a junior at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) when he joined our 2020 summer program to work on literature review. Before joining us, he competed in Science Olympiad and the 2020 Gwinnett Regional Science Fair and ultimately won bronze and silver medals at both events.
High School Intern: June 2020 - July 2020
Ambika Manjunath
Ambika is from Atlanta, GA. She was a rising junior at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GSMST). Prior to joining us, Ambika completed an individual research study on the physicochemical properties of antibiotics and presented her research at Georgia State Science Fair. Ambika joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
High School Intern: June 2020 - July 2020
Yuri Park
Yuri was a rising junior at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GSMST) when she joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review. She has various engineering-based research projects prior to joining the Liang Lab.
High School Intern
Olivia Kim
Olivia is originally from South Korea. She was a junior at Peachtree Ridge Highschool when she joined our 2020 summer program to work on literature review. Olivia also participated in various chromatography methods for protein purification and cloning at the Liang Lab.
High School Intern: June 2020 - Aug. 2020
Jack Wang
Jack joined our 2020 summer program to work on the literature review.
