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Steve Bonilla
Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2012
BioAs a researcher in the Herschlag lab at Stanford, I am working towards the development of a quantitative and predictive model of RNA folding. For this purpose, I use single-molecule fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, and other experimental tools to dissect the structural and dynamic properties of RNA three-dimensional motifs. These 3D motifs are like LEGOS that build diverse and complex functional RNA machines such as the ribosome. The goal is to develop a general model of RNA folding from the understanding of the energetic properties of small recurring building blocks or motifs. Recently, I joined an ongoing collaboration between the Greenleaf and the Herschlag labs that uses next-generation high-throughput sequencing for the characterization of RNA structural motifs. This powerful high-throughput approach developed in the Greenleaf lab allows dissection of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of thousands of 3D motifs in parallel.
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Julie A. Fogarty
Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2013
BioJulie is currently at Stanford University pursuing her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering where she works for Prof. James R. Swartz on developing a modular virus-like particle based vaccine platform. Her current focus is on developing novel vaccines for HIV and Zika. She is also pursuing work related to further development of a potentially broadly protective flu antigen, as well as work to design a scalable process for manufacturing this antigen. Julie has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and is excited by the biological applications of chemical engineering.
Julie spent two years working for Dr. Jennifer A. Maynard at the University of Texas at Austin in the Chemical Engineering Department. Her project focused on phage display using coat protein p8 variants as a means for engineering low affinity protein-protein interactions. This work could provide a platform for engineering T-cell receptors (a largely under-exploited immune molecule) to create better therapeutics for a number of different diseases.
She has past research experience working with miRNA at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics under the supervision of Dr. George A. Calin. She also has experience working with pH responsive hydrogels at the University of Texas at Austin in the Chemical Engineering Department under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas A. Peppas. Finally, Julie interned with Merck in their Manufacturing Division for two summers and was a Merck Engineering and Technology Fellow.
She was formerly the President of the Stanford Chemical Engineering Graduate Action Committee and has served on many of their student committees.
As an undergraduate, she served as the Vice President External for the UT Chapter of AIChE for two years and the Service Chair of the organization for one year. In addition, Julie served as President, Vice President, and Service Chair for the Epsilon Chapter of Omega Chi Epsilon. -
Emma del Carmen Gonzalez Gonzalez
Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a Ph.D. student in the Chemical Engineering Department. My research interests include colloidal systems, complex fluids, and rheology. My current project aims to improve understanding of intracellular mechanical transport utilizing our group’s newly developed and evolving computational model, where confinement and particle shape, size, and interactions are aimed toward rigorous modeling of the key transport processes in a model eukaryotic cell.
