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
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
Tom Acton
Senior Research Scientist
email: actont@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
Namita Dube
Research Scientist
email: duben@rpi.edu
Amit Gaur
Research Scientist
email: gaura@rpi.edu
Anna De Falco
Research Scientist
email: defala@rpi.edu
Keith Fraga
Postdoctoral Research Associate
email: fragak2@rpi.edu
Ben Shurina
Postdoctoral Research Associate
email: shurib2@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
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
Tiburon Benavides
Graduate Student – Biochemistry and Biophysics
email: benavt@rpi.edu
Kassie Hooker
Project Administrator
B.S. in Health Promotion and Education focused in Public and Community Health from the University of Cincinnati in 2016. M.S. in Clinical and Translational Research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2021.
Research Interests : Translational research, biomedical applications of natural sciences, regulatory policies and procedures involving academia and sponsored-research.
email: hookek@rpi.edu
Reena Caplan
Undergraduate Researcher
Majoring in Biochemistry and Biophysics. RPI Class of 2025
email: caplar@rpi.edu
Suren Zakian
Undergraduate Researcher
Majoring in Biology. Class of 2025.
email: zakias@rpi.edu
