Laboratory Members
Gaetano T. Montelione
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Constellation Chair in Structural Bioinformatics
Earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University in 1987.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Research Interests: Protein structure, function, and dynamics. Computational methods are used together with data from NMR, SAXS, X-ray crystallography, and other biophysical analytical techniques.
Email: monteg3@rpi.edu
Yuanpeng Janet Huang
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Computational Molecular Biology and Biophysics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2001; M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1997
Research Interests: Structural bioinformatics, data science, automated protein structure analysis by NMR
Ben Shurina
Research Scientist & Laboratory Manager
Ph.D. in Chemistry & Biochemistry from Miami University in 2021
Research Interests: Protein structure, function, and dynamics studies
Email: shurib2@rpi.edu
Anna De Falco
Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Chemistry from Pontifical Catholic University in 2017
Master’s Degree in Public Health from the National School of Public Health Fiocruz in 2013
Email: defala@rpi.edu
Thomas Acton
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics from Rutgers University in 1997
Email: actont@rpi.edu
Swapna Gurla (GVT Swapna)
Senior Research Scientist
Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) Hyderabad, India in 1993. M.Phil. in Theoretical Chemistry from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 1987
Research Interests: NMR and computational studies to understand cellular processes through structural biology, structure and dynamics of proteins and protein complexes.
Email: swapna.gurla@gmail.com
Roberto Tejero
Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, University of Valencia
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Valencia in 1984.
Research Interests: Computational aspects of physical and biophysical chemistry
Email: roberto.tejero@uv.es
Namita Dube
Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from University of Cambridge in 2018
Research Interests: Protein modeling and engineering
Email: duben@rpi.edu
Laura Spaman
Graduate Student – Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S. in Chemistry, minor in Biology from The College at Brockport in 2012. M.S.Ed. from The College at Brockport in 2015. M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Saint Joseph in 2021.
Research Interests: Secondary education, Cancer Biochemistry, Protein Structure/dynamics involved in oncogenic and tumorigenic pathways.
Email: spamal@rpi.edu
Tiburon Benavides
Graduate Student – Biochemistry and Biophysics
B.S. in Bioinformatics & Molecular Biology; B.S. in Computer Science from RPI in 2021.
Email: benavt@rpi.edu
Dana Li
Undergraduate Researcher
Majoring in Biology (BS/MD). RPI Class of 2028
Email: lid28@rpi.edu