Emily received her BS in Chemistry at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Following graduation she worked as a Research Scientist in Medicinal Chemistry at Curia where she worked on the synthesis of potential drug candidates. In 2023 she joined the Chemistry PhD program at the University of Michigan where she is now learning about the role of riboswitches in gene regulation.

I am working on the META-SiM model and looking into expanding the website to enable users to perform individual smFRET data analysis steps such as accepting or rejecting traces. I am also hoping to develop predictive models for hybridization kinetics of DNA and RNA molecules.

I did my bachelor's majoring in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta, followed by a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. My undergrad project was primarily focused on measuring the solvation dynamics of protein in the crowded milieu using TCSPC and trying to correlate the associated water structure with the stability and activity of protein. On a side project, I also used Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) to track the aggregation of proteins at the nanomolar concentration range.

Emily is a first year graduate student in the biophysics program. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Mississippi State University. During her undergraduate degree, she worked in Dr. Nicholas Fitzkee’s laboratory on a project aimed at understanding the interactions between Staphylococcal Autolysin domains and polystyrene surfaces. (Member since 2021)