Sack & Yarov-Yarovoy Lab People

Celine Cheng

Undergraduate Student, BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Davis

Research Interests: Pain medicine and analgesics, synthetic biology and pharmaceutical research, pharmaceutical development

Hobbies: Baking, cooking, snowboarding, painting, swimming, traveling

Noah Cylich

Undergraduate Student, Wissahickon High School, Ambler, PA

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence modeling for voltage-gated ion channels, transformers, & RNNs

Hobbies: Tennis, Piano, & CS-side projects

Adriana Hernández González

PhD Student, Biophysics Graduate Group
BSc Basic Biomedical Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Research Interests: Computational Methods for Protein Science

Hobbies: Cooking, Non-fiction books and movies

Geir Hareland Jr.

PhD Student, Biophysics Graduate Group
BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, 2018
Colorado Department of Public Health – Whole Genome Sequencing Scientist (workflow optimization, robotic protocol automation, real-time variant surveillance, sample repository management) 2020-2022
Soundbridge Academy – Music Production Certification 2020-2021

Research Interests: Geir is interested in designing peptide biologics using computational insights to create novel pharmaceutical treatments using applied synthetic biology, testing their viability using electrophysiology techniques.

Hobbies: Composing Music, Yoga, Exploring Nature, Running, Climbing, Diving, Philosophy, Literature, Art, Graphic Design, Symbolism, and Typography.

Brandon Harris

PhD Student, Biophysics Graduate Group
MS Biology, University of Wisconsin La Crosse (2020)
BS Physics, University of Wisconsin La Crosse (2016)
Minors: Mathematics

Research Interests: computational peptide design, molecular modeling, ion channels, ligand docking and virtual drug screening

Academic Interests: Biophysical Society Student Chapter at UC Davis, science communication for general audiences

Hobbies: Hiking, cooking, martial arts, walking puppies

Cameron Larson

PhD Student, Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Group
BS Biology, Brigham Young University-Idaho 2018

Research Interests: Protein engineering, gene circuits, metabolic engineering, crowdfunded research

Hobbies: Reading, DIY plant tissue culture, aquascape, cycling, carnivorous plants

Matthew James Marquis

PhD Candidate, Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Group
BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Santa Cruz 2016

Research Interests: The relationship between structure and function in proteins, electrical properties of living things, mathematical modeling

Hobbies: Reading, camping, fishing, fencing, heavy metal, and watching boxing

Diego Lopez Mateos

PhD Student, Biophysics Graduate Group
BS Biotechnology, Technical University of Madrid, 2017
MS Biophysics, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2018

Research Interests: Structural Biology & Computational Biology: Peptide and antibody design for pain treatment

Hobbies: Reading, videogames, hiking, piano, travelling and language and culture learning

Kush Narang

Undergraduate Student, BS Computational Biology, UC Davis

Research Interests: Computational drug design, protein structure and stability, and clinical medicine

Hobbies: Rock climbing, tennis, and reading

Anish Prakriya

Undergraduate Student, BS Computer Science, UC Los Angeles

Research Interests: Computational structural biology, protein structure prediction, reinforcement learning

Hobbies: Wushu, Anime, Weightlifting, Violin/Guitar

Simoun Raga

Undergraduate Student, BS Microbiology, UC Davis

Research Interests: Hearing and pain signaling, and possible therapeutics that target them; recombinant genomes

Hobbies: Baking, journaling, architecture, journaling, playing games

Amogh Sukhthankar

Undergraduate Student, BS Biology, San Jose State University
Minor: Chemistry

Research Interests: I am interested in drug discovery and design, signal transduction, and chronic pain therapies.

Hobbies: Swimming, weightlifting, reading, playing and teaching chess, watching scary movies