People
Neel S. Joshi
Principal Investigator
Neel Joshi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and an affiliate in Bioengineering at Northeastern University. He completed his PhD at UC Berkeley in the lab of Matt Francis and a postdoc at Boston University in the lab of Mark Grinstaff before starting his independent academic career at Harvard University and then moving to Northeastern in January 2020. He is broadly interested in topics related to biologically inspired materials, protein engineering, self-assembly, biomanufacturing, and biointerfaces. His group works at the intersection of biomaterials science and synthetic biology.
Email: ne.joshi@northeastern.edu
PhD Students
Hui Yan (Jen) Kuang
PhD Candidate
Program: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(B.S. Boston University)
Email: kuang.hu@northeastern.edu
Shanna Bonanno
PhD Candidate
Program: Bioengineering
(B.S. Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Email: bonanno.sh@northeastern.edu
Petit Pierre
PhD Candidate
Program: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(B.S. Northeastern University)
Email: pierre.p@northeastern.edu
Hann Tu
PhD Candidate
Program: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
(B.S. Simmons College)
Email: tu.han@northeastern.edu
Shohreh Vanaei
PhD Candidate
Program: Bioengineering
(B.S., M.S. University of Tehran)
Email: vanaei.s@northeastern.edu
Undergraduate Students
Ezri Abraham
Program: Biology
Email: abraham.ez@northeastern.edu
Rebecca Salerno
Program: Biochemistry
Email: salerno.re@northeastern.edu
Darren Kim
Position
Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
Email: dar.kim@northeastern.edu
Past Members
Research staff and Research Scientists:
- Avinash Manjula-Basavanna
- Peter Q. Nguyen
Postdoctoral fellows:
- Rong Chang
- Mert Vural
- Anna Duraj-Thatte
- Anton Kan
- Junling Guo
- Miguel Suástegui
- Noémie‐Manuelle Dorval Courchesne
- Martin Nussbaumer
- Glenna Meister
PhD students:
- Ilia Gelfat
- Daniel Birnbaum
- Pichet Bom Praveschotinunt
- Giorgia Cannici
- Pei Kun Richie Tay
- Zsofia Botyanszki
- Rajiv Desai
- Daniel Rubin
Visiting researchers:
- Eneko Axpe
- Arjirios Sourlis
- Franziska Bahl
- Ilona den Hartog
- Chaochen Lu
- Ahmed Sami Helal
Masters students:
- Michelle Isaac
- Itishree Sahoo
- Teena Ramu
- Shriya Verenkar
- Bismay Hota
- Arjun Rajesh
- Rutvi Sheta
- Pranav Mundada
- Balasubalakshmi Balasubramanian
- Swaralee Avinash Kulkarni
- Rucha Sanket Deshpande
Undergraduate students:
- Stephanie Chun
- Shayla Tran
- Zachary Kim
- Eli Avraamides
- Solomon Sakakeeny-Smith
- Abichael Belizaire
- Brian Cho
- Himanshu Patanker
- Mohammed Alwelyee
- Sam Lim
- Grace McNally
- Timothy Storms
- Jade Law
- Coulter Giem
- Sivaram Emani
- Vanessa Moody
- Octavio Lopez
- Amy Zhou
- Jessica J. Kim
- Jarod Rutledge
- Trevor Nash
- Frederick Ward