Vakser Lab|Research

CURRENT MEMBERS

llya Vakser

Head of Lab, Professor

vakser@ku.edu

Petras Kundrotas

Deputy Head, Assosciate Research Professor

pkundro@ku.edu

Amar Singh

Assosciate Researcher

amar.singh@ku.edu

Matthew Copeland

Research Engineer

matthew@ku.edu

Vineeth Kumar Ambati

Graduate Research Assistant, Master Student

vineethkumarambati@ku.edu

Keeley Collins

Graduate Student

kcollins24@ku.edu

Sai Dev Madupuri

Graduate Research Assistant, Master Student

saidev.madupuri@ku.edu

Kamila Yunas

Graduate Student

kamilayounis6@gmail.com

Visiting Professors

Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University (2016, 2018)
Sergei Grudinin, Institut de Biologie Structurale, INRIA, France (2019)
Dukka KC, North Carolina A&T State University (2017)
Shiyong Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (2014)
Francisco Siles Canales, University of Costa Rica (2017-2018)

Former Members

Name	Position	Time Period
Ian Kotthoff	Research Assistant	2023
Ryan Brice	Graduate Student (on leave)	2022-2023
Tevin Niang-Trost	Research Assistant	2022
Samuel Lim	Rotation Graduate Student	2021
Maria Elisa Ruiz	Postdoctoral Researcher	2020-2021
Giacomo Fernandez	Research Assistant	2020
Michael Perry	Research Assistant	2019
Sana Akhter	Rotation Graduate Student	2019-2020
Amar Kumar	Rotation Graduate Student	2019
Shristi Pawnikar	Rotation Graduate Student	2018
Sherman Choi	Research Assistant	2018-2019
Apurba Bhattarai	Rotation Graduate Student	2017
Ricardo Roman Brenes	Visiting Graduate Student	2017-2018
Derrick Perry	Research Assistant	2017-2018
Nathan Jenkins	Graduate Student	2016-2023
Devlina Chakravarty	Postdoctoral Fellow	2016-2019
GW McElfresh	Rotation Graduation Student	2016
Huijing Wang	Rotation Graduate Student	2015
Anna Hadarovich	Research Assistant	2014-2020
Taras Dauzhenka	Associate Researcher	2014-2021
Deepak Singla	Postdoctoral Fellow	2014-2015
Hongjing Ma	Rotation Graduate Student	2013
Shipra Malhotra	Rotation Graduation Student	2013
Madhurima Das	Postdoctoral Fellow	2013-2017
Saveliy Belkin	Graduate Student	2011-2019
Varsha Dave Badal	Graduate Student	2011-2018
Kawaljit Kaur	Rotation Graduate Student	2010-2011
Mallika Veeramalai	Postdoctoral Fellow	2010-2011
Jiaqin Li	Rotation Graduate Student	2009
Subina Karakkeel	Rotation Graduate Student	2009
Yuri Grushetsky	Visiting Graduate Student	2008
Tatsiana Kirys	Research Assistant	2008-2012
Alex Garrett	Research Assistant	2007-2008
Jagtar Hunjan	Postdoctoral Fellow	2006-2007
Rohita Sinha	Graduate Student	2006-2011
Ying Gao	Postdoctoral Fellow	2005-2008
Dominique Douguet	Postdoctoral Fellow	2003-2004
Cheri Chen	Rotation Graduate Student	2003-2004
Noha Lim	Graduate Student	2003-2004
Mandeep Sawhney	Graduate Student	2003-2004
Amina Sharaf	Undergraduate Student	2003-2004
Camille Gozdziewski	Assistant	2002-2003
Lei Wang	Undergraduate Student	2002-2003
Sohae Chung	Visiting Graduate Student	2002
Sharadha Sambasivan	Research Associate	2001
George Nicola	Graduate Student	2000-2001
Nicholas O'Toole	Postdoctoral Fellow	2000-2001
Yuri Peterson	Rotation Graduate Student	1999
Christopher Wells	Graduate Student	1998-2001
Andrey Tovchigrechko	Research Scientist	1998-2007
Fabian Glaser	Visiting Graduate Student	1998
Dayong He	Postdoctoral Fellow	1998-1999
Victor Jiang	Postdoctoral Fellow	1998-2001

Contact Us

Center for Computational Biology
Multidisciplinary Research Building
2030 Becker Drive,Lawrence, KS 66047
Bus Route: 42

vakser@ku.edu
compbio@ku.edu
785-864-1057