TCB Hands-on Workshop in Urbana
Participant Profile

There were 51 participants in the workshop, comprised of 25 participants who applied and were accepted by TCBG, and 26 participants from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy (or neighboring schools) and selected by workshop co-organizer Dr. Steve Harvey, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Each TCBG participant applied for a seat, and was selected from a pool of 109 applicants.  A distribution of education is provided in Table 1 and of industry in Table 2, while Table 3 lists participant names, institutions, and current level of education.

Education      Number
Doctorate 2
Postdoctoral Associate 23
Graduate Student 22
BA/BS Degree 4
Total 51

Table 1: Breakdown of Participants and their current educational standing.
Location Number
Academic 46
Corporate 4
Government 1

Table 2: Distribution of types of participant work locations.

Table 3: Participant Names, Institutes, and Education
Name Institute Education
Thomas Albers State University of New York Postdoctoral Associate
Shreyas Athavale Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Rodney Averett Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Yasin Bakis Abant zzet Baysal University PhD
Mustafa Burak Boz Geogia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Brian Cafferty Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Paul Cardenas-Lizana Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Michael Chen Georgia Institute of Technology Undergraduate
EunKyung Cho Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Renee Cottle Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Luke Czapla University of California Postdoctoral Associate
Tanay Desai Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Urmi Doshi Georgia State University Postdoctoral Associate
Christopher Edmonds Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Denise Enekwa Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Bradley Feuston Merck Research Laboratories PhD
Eli Fine Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Justin Flatt Vanderbilt University PhD Student
Andrew Foo Georgia Institute of Technology Undergraduate
Devadoss Fredrick University of Konstanz PhD Student
Xuefeng Gao University College Cork PhD Student
Jerome Golebiowski Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis Postdoctoral Associate
Marianne Grant Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Associate
Eliezer Hershkovits Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Pavel Klimovich University of New Orleans PhD Student
Tim Lenz Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Sukrit Mukhopadhyay Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Gungor Ozer Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Jesper Pallesen Columbia University Postdoctoral Associate
Laxman Pandey Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Theodoros Papadopoulos Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Massimiliano Porrini University of Edinburgh Postdoctoral Associate
Thanawadee Preeprem Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Kazi Shefaet Rahman Georgia Institute of Technology BA/BS Degree
Aravind Rammohan Corning Incorporated Postdoctoral Associate
Chad Risko Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Sean Ryno Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Benjamin Samudio University of California Davis PhD Student
Amandeep Sangha University of Tennessee Postdoctoral Associate
John Sears Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Sivakumar Sekharan Emory University Postdoctoral Associate
Han Shen Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Suresh Singh Vitae Pharmaceuticals Postdoctoral Associate
Guergana Terzieva Georgia Institute of Technology Undergraduate
Jeremie Topin Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis PhD Student
Wade Van Horn Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral Associate
Lucas Viani Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Yao Xin Georgia State University Postdoctoral Associate
Lilian Yamasaki Centers for Disease Control PhD Student
Yingying Zeng Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Student
Yajun Zheng Vitae Pharmaceuticals Postdoctoral Associate