Professor Collin M. Stultz
cmstultz@mit.edu | RLE Bio | RLE Video

Professor Collin M. Stultz is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the W. M. Keck Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at MIT.  Professor Stultz conducts research to understand conformational changes in macromolecules and the effect of structural transitions on common human diseases. His research group employs an interdisciplinary approach that utilizes techniques drawn from computational chemistry, signal processing, and basic biochemistry.

Professor Stultz received the AB from Harvard College in 1988, and the MD from Harvard Medical School as well as a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard in 1997. An alumnus of the Harvard-MIT program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Professor Stultz is on the faculty of both HST and MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Among his honors are being a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences and the James Tolbert Shipley Prize.

Sophie Walker, RLE

walkers@MIT.EDU

Sophie is a postdoctoral associate in the Computational Biophysics Group. Her research is focused on elucidating the conformational states of intrinsically disordered proteins, with particular focus on α-synuclein and tau. She is also interested in protein aggregation and the mechanisms underlying the formation of amyloid fibrils.

Ramon Salsas-Escat, CSBI
ramon12@mit.edu

Ramon is a student from the Computational and Systems Biology (CSBi) phD program. His research focuses on biophysical studies of protein structure with a combination of experimental (crystallography, circular dichroism and computational methods (molecular dynamics). In particular, his primary research interest revolves around the study of collagen degradation.

Ramon was born in Barcelona in 1980, country of Catalunya, part of the Spanish state. He majored in chemistry at the Institut Quimic de Sarria (Barcelona) and obtained an MS degree in chemistry before coming to MIT for his PhD research. He enjoys playing basketball, Spanish food (pork products in particular), paella, and traveling.

Elaine Gee, Harvard Biophysics
gee@fas.harvard.edu

Elaine is a third year graduate student in the biophysics program at Harvard. Under joint advisorship in the Stultz and Ingber labs, she is pursuing research that thinks outside of the cell.  She is interested in the formation of the scaffolding that surrounds cells in tissues with particular focus on extracellular matrix proteins, such as fibronectin.  Elaine hopes to understand the molecular mechanisms of fibronectin oligomerization through a combination of steered molecular dynamics modeling coupled with experimental analysis.

Paul Nerenberg, MIT Physics
psn@mit.edu

Paul is a third-year graduate student in Physics at MIT.  His research interests include computational and experimental investigations into protein structure and dynamics, as well as incorporating more physics (e.g. quantum mechanics) into computational simulations because that's what physicists like to do.  On the computational side, he is exploring the use of umbrella sampling and weighted histogram analysis (WHAM) to examine protein conformations normally absent from MD simulations due to large energy barriers. One day he hopes to learn how to play with powerful magnets and do some in-house NMR experiments.

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