Tiffany Chung
Radiology
Profs. Jianghong Rao (Radiology) and Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Bioengineering, Radiology)

Tiffany designed small molecule probes for in vivo imaging of apoptosis. Because apoptosis takes place through activation of caspases, she will develop a bioluminescence imaging system that can directly image the activation of the caspases in vivo.

Sergey Solomatin
Chemistry
Profs. Steve Chu (Physics, Applied Physics) and Daniel Herschlag (Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering)

Sergey’s research will involve the use of single-molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (sm-FRET) to explore the folding dynamics of RNA. In the Herschlag and Chu labs, Sergey is using synthetic and characterization techniques to determine distance changes between labeled sites on a ribozyme molecule.