Lab Members

Dr. Thurber received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then did postdoctoral research at the Army Research Laboratory and the Navy Research Laboratory before joining the Laboratory of Chemical Physics of NIDDK in 2005. His work includes experimental and theoretical aspects of dynamic nuclear polarization as well as micron-scale magnetic resonance imaging.

Dr. Yau received his B.S. in pharmacy from National Taiwan University, his M.S. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from West Virginia University. He did postdoctoral research in the Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics of NIAAA before joining the Laboratory of Chemical Physics of NIDDK in 2002. His work includes synthesis of isotopically labeled peptides for solid state NMR studies, synthesis of novel oligoradical compounds for dynamic nuclear polarization, and protein expression.

Dr. Jeon received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Central Florida. His current work involves the development of methods for freeze-trapping protein folding intermediates on the millisecond time scale and structural investigations of these intermediates by low-temperature solid-state NMR with dynamic nuclear polarization.

Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University. His current work focuses on micron-scale magnetic resonance imaging at low temperatures and with dynamic nuclear polarization.

Dr. Wilson received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His current work involves the development of new rapid temperature-jump methods for initiating protein folding processes and the application of these methods in time-resolved studies of protein folding by solid-state NMR with dynamic nuclear polarization.

Dr. Lee received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current work focuses on molecular structures of amyloid-like fibrils formed by low-complexity protein sequences, using both cryo-electron microscopy and solid-state NMR methods, as well as molecular dynamics within these fibrils and the relationship between liquid-liquid phase separation and fibril formation.

Michigan State University

University of British Columbia, Canada

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Luleå University of Technology

CIC bioGUNE, Spain

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

University of Missouri at Kansas City

University of Toronto, Canada

Georgia Institute of Technology

University of Central Florida

Binghampton University (State University of New York)

Shanghai Tech University, China

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

University of Puerto Rico

University of California at Davis

Yenepoya Research Center, India