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Varun Mandalaparthy
Graduate Student Highlight: Varun Mandalaparthy

In this installment of our highlight series, we are featuring Varun Mandalaparthy, a fifth-year student in the Noid group. Varun’s work focuses on trying to understand how small molecules, such as salts and neutral molecules, affect surface tension and protein folding. 

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Dayna Patterson.

In this installment of our highlight series, we are featuring Dayna Patterson, a fifth-year student in the Weinert group. Dayna’s research focuses on characterizing a class of heme proteins called globin-coupled sensors (GCS). 

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Graduate Student Highlight: Dayna Patterson