Lab Members
Our Staff
Section Chief
James (Dusty) Baber, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Next to carrying out NMR and EPR research, Dusty also maintains most of the shared NMR instruments in the groups headed by Drs. Bax and Clore
Yang Shen, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Yang Shen is the principal person behind many of the widely used NMR software, including SPARTA, TALOS, POMONA, CS-ROSETTA and other programs
Staff Scientist
Next to managing the 900 MHz facility, Jinfa is focusing on software development, in particular for non-uniformly sampled data
Dennis A. Torchia, Ph.D.
Scientist Emeritus
Our Fellows
Ashley Barnes, Ph.D.
IRTA Fellow
Angus Robertson, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
Work focusing on amyloid and SARS-CoV-2 Main protease
Sai Chaitanya Chiliveri, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
Joseph Courtney, Ph.D.
IRTA Fellow
Work focuses on real-time study of protein folding.
Tayeb Kakeshpour, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
Research focus is on early events in amyloid formation of Alzheimer’s peptide and alpha-synuclein
Venkatraman Ramanujam, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
Tsega Solomon, Ph.D.
IRTA Fellow
Tsega’s focus is on protein folding and the effect of mechanical force on solution NMR spectra of proteins
Group Photos
Group photo 2016
The Bax group around 2010
The Bax group prior to a rafting trip in 2003
Taking advantage of some heavy rainfall, the Bax group rafted down the Shenandoah River