
Gaetano T Montelione
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Constellation Chair in Structural Bioinformatics
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.
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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:
email: huangy26@rpi.edu

Theresa A. Ramelot
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cornell University in 2000.
Research Interests: Protein structure, function, and dynamics studies by NMR and other biophysical analytical techniques including ITC, MS, EPR, and DLS
email: ramelt2@rpi.edu

Roberto Tejero
Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, University of Valencia
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University University of Valencia in 1984.
Research Interests: Computational aspects of physical and biophysical chemistry
email: roberto.tejero@uv.es

Khushboo Bafna
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ph.D. in Computational Molecular Biophysics from University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2019
Research Interests and Expertise: Studying protein structure-function-dynamics integrating computational biology and structural biophysics.
email: bafnak@rpi.edu

Rebecca Greene-Cramer
Graduate Student – Chemistry and Chemical Biology
B.A. in Chemistry, Biochemistry Option; minor in Biology from Western Connecticut State University in 2011. M.P.H. from Boston University in 2013.
Research Expertise and Interests: Public Health, International Health and Infectious Disease, Antivirals for Pathogenic Organisms
email: greenr9@rpi.edu

Tom Acton
Senior Research Scientist
email: actont@rpi.edu

G.V.T. Swapna (Swapna Gurla)
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

Allison Martin
Research Specialist
M.Eng. in Materials Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Structural bioinformatics and computational biology, analyzing protein structure and function using analytical methods and techniques
email: martia21@rpi.edu

Ben Shurina
Postdoctoral Research Associate
email: shurib2@rpi.edu

Laura Spaman
Graduate Student – Chemistry and 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 Expertise and Interests: Secondary education, Cancer Biochemistry, Protein Structure/dynamics involved in oncogenic and tumorigenic pathways.
email: spamal@rpi.edu

Laura Klang
Research Specialist
Research Interests:
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Christopher Damone
Web Design and Scientific Programmer
B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, expected graduation in 2022
Research Interests: Computational chemistry/chemical engineering
email: damonc@rpi.edu

Monali Ardeshna
Undergraduate Researcher
B.S. in Biology (Accelerated Physician/Scientist Program) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, expected graduation in 2024
Research Interests: Structural Biology
email: m.ardeshna02@gmail.com