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August 2025 (above, from left, International Spy Museum, DC): Joel Gallardo, Augustine and his wife Augustina, Rutika, Sharon, Prisca, and Tania
Principal Investigator
Sharon M. Loverde
Professor, Chemistry, College of Staten IslandGraduate Center, Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and PhysicsCUNY, College of Staten Island 2800 Victory Blvd, 6S-238Staten Island, NY10314 Phone: 718-982-4075Fax: 718-982-3910sharon.loverde@csi.cuny.edusloverde@gc.cuny.eduPostdoctoral Fellow in Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 - 2012Mentors: Dennis E. Discher and Michael L. KleinNIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) F32 FellowPhD in Materials Science of Engineering at Northwestern University, 2007Adviser: Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Graduate Students
Augustine Chimezie OnyemaPhD Biochemistry expected 20252023-2024 MolSSI Software Fellow, CUNY Dissertation Fellowship
Projects
MD Simulations of the Oncogenic Mutations in NucleosomeImplementation of Methods to Characterize Allostery in Protein Complexes
Rutika Patel (Rosemary O' Halleran Scholarship, partially supported by CUNY MMA), Flatiron Institute Fellow Summer 2024
PhD Biochemistry expected 2025
Projects
MD Simulations of PTMs in Histone TailsMarkov State Modeling of Histone Tails
Tania Rajpersaud (Rosemary O'Halleran Scholarship Fall 2022, NanoBioNYC Fellow, starting January 2023)PhD Biochemistry expected 2026
Projects
Simulations of Polyelectrolyte ComplexesCoarse-Grained Modeling of Liquid Liquid Phase Separated PeptidesScreening a Large Peptide Database Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Joel GallardoNanoBioNYC Fellow, PhD expected 2028
Projects
Molecular Self-Assembly
Prisca Baah (Rosemary O'Halleran Scholarship Fall 2025)PhD Biochemistry expected 2029
Projects
Nucleic Acids in Varying Complexes
Undergraduate Students
Santos HanaMajor: BiologyProject: Biophysical Methods to Characterize the NCPSummer 2023, Fall 2024
Mohammad MoussaMajor: BiochemistryProject: Effect of Mutations in Histone Tails on NCPSummer 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024
High School Students
Veronica KrukStaten Island Technical SchoolSummer 2024Joshua ChungHunter College High SchoolSummer 2024
Alumni
Alumni
Graduate Students
Dr. Chris DiForte (co-advised with Prof. Sebastien Poget, partially supported by CUNY MMA)PhD, CUNY Biochemistry, June 2025Now, Scientist, Thermo Fisher
Dr. Phu K. TangPhD , CUNY Biochemistry, June 2021Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, now OpenEye Scientific
Dr. Anjela Manandhar (partially supported by Rosemary O' Halloran scholarship, 2014-2018)PhD, CUNY Biochemistry, June 2019Postdoc with Michael L. Klein, Temple University, now Computational Chemist, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Dr. Michaela Drenscko (recipient of CUNY Dissertation Year scholarship)PhD, CUNY Physics, 2017
Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow
Abhik Ghosh Moulick (now postdoc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))PhD Soft Matter Physics, S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, IndiaWebsite Projects
Coarse Grained Models of Polyelectrolyte ComplexesFree Energy Methods to Sample Structure and Stability of the NCP
Dr. Prabir Khatua (now Assistant Professor, GITAM Institute of Technology)PhD, IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Kaushik Chakraborty, (2015 - 2019)CubeBioAI, now Schrodinger, India
Dr. Myungshim Kang, 2013 - 2018 (partially supported by Rosemary O' Halloran scholarship-2014,2015,2016)Adjunct Assistant Professor at College of Staten Island
Undergraduate Students
Nadzeya FliahaMajor: Computer Science , Macauley Honors CollegeSummer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023Project: Development of a Peptide Modeling PipelineChukwuebuka DikeochaMajor: Computer ScienceProject: C/C++ Code to Calculate Translational Order Parameter, Python Code to Calculate H Bond Autocorrelation FunctionSummer 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023
Alice MensahMajor: BiochemistryProject: Oncogenic Mutations in the NCPSpring 2022, Summer 2022
Ekaterina Grebenshchikova Major: ChemistryFall 2021
Tania Rajpersaud (now PhD student)Major: Computer ScienceSpring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Summer 2021
Project: Atomistic Simulation of Oppositely Charged Polypeptides
Vidhi Patel (now Rutgers Pharmacy)Major: BiochemistryFall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Project: Atomistic Simulation of Viroporins
Jennifer ModiMajor: ChemistrySpring 2021
Robert ValmontMajor: ChemistrySpring 2021
Chukwurado UmeakaMajor: Computer ScienceSpring 2018 - Summer 2018, Spring 2019
Gizelle RapistaMajor: Biochemistry, visiting from University of Santo TomasSummer 2018
Ekaterina Grebenshchikova Major: ChemistryFall 2021
Mohamed Al SharifMajor: BiologySummer 2015 - Fall 2017, CUNY CSTEP Program (now Rutgers medical school)
Susannah O'SheaFort Hamilton High School, Brooklyn, STEM teacherSummer 2016, Summer 2017
Larisa SolovyovaMajor: Chemistry/PsychologySpring 2014 (graduated)
Mirna AbdelsayedMajor: Psychology/ChemistryFall 2012 - Summer 2013, Spring 2014
Dennis LamMajor: BiochemistryFall 2012 - Spring 2016 (now CUNY Biochemistry PhD student)
Tei MansroMajor: ChemistrySummer 2016, CUNY CRSP Program
Soukaina Chyat Major: ChemistrySummer 2016, CUNY CRSP Program
High School Students
William Hu, Hunter High School (now Harvard)Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021Summer Intern DESRES 2022
Project: Stability of the Nucleosome Core Particle at High Salt Concentrations
Forrest Bicker, Hunter High School (now Harvey Mudd)Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021
Project: Coarse Grained Mapping and Code DevelopmentGithub: https://github.com/forrestbicker/CoarseGrainScrips
Vivian Cong, Staten Island Tech (now Columbia)Fall 2018
Serina HuHunter High SchoolSummer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017 (now Harvard)
Eugene ReznikovStuyvesant High SchoolSummer 2013 (now NYU)
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