People

Oliver Polachini
Class of 2026
Centrifugal Force Microscopy
opolachini26@amherst.edu

David Brown
Class of 2025
Histone Replacement
dbrown25@amherst.edu

Jonathan Xing
Class of 2025
DNA Folding
jxing25@amherst.edu

Jai Dreher
Class of 2025
Histone Replacement
jdreher25@amherst.edu

Karen Lee
Class of 2025
Histone Replacement
kslee25@amherst.edu

Melanie Huq
Class of 2025
Centrifugal Force Microscopy
mhuq25@amherst.edu

Isabel Hardy
Class of 2024
Histone Replacement
ihardy24@amherst.edu

Daniel Oo
Class of 2024
DNA Folding
doo24@amherst.edu

Michael Liu
Class of 2024
DNA Folding
mliu24@amherst.edu

Gigi Golden
Class of 2024
DNA Folding
ggolden24@amherst.edu

Alejandra Velasquez
Class of 2024
Histone Replacement
avelasquez24@amherst.edu

Audrey Orlowski
Class of 2023
Centrifugal Force Microscopy
aorlowski23@amherst.edu

Jake Kim
Class of 2023
DNA Folding
jjkim22@amherst.edu

Vietta Kuntz
Class of 2023
Histone Replacement
vkuntz23@amherst.edu

Oliver Polachino • Physics and Math, Class of 2026
(January 2023-present) • opolachino26@amherst.edu

David Brown • , Class of 2025
(Summer 2022-present) • dbrown25@amherst.edu

Jonathan Xing • BCBP and Anthropology, Class of 2025
(January 2023-present) • jxing25@amherst.edu

Jai Dreher • Physics and Math, Class of 2025
(January 2023-present) • jdreher25@amherst.edu

Jai Dreher • BCBP and English, Class of 2025
(Summer 2022-present) • kslee25@amherst.edu

Melanie Hur • Physics and LJST, Class of 2025
(Summer 2022-present) • mhuq25@amherst.edu

Gigi Golden • Undeclared, Class of 2024
(Summer 2021-Summer 2022) • ggolden24@amherst.edu

Isabel Hardy • Undeclared, Class of 2024
(January 2021-present) • ihardy24@amherst.edu

Michael Liu • Undeclared, Class of 2024
(January 2021-2022) • mliu24@amherst.edu

Alejandra Velasquez • BCBP, Class of 2024
(January 2022-present) • avelasquez24@amherst.edu

Jake Kim • Neuroscience, Class of 2023
(January 2022-present) • jjkim22@amherst.edu

Audrey Orlowski • BCBP and Math, Class of 2023 (January 2022-present) • aorlowski23@amherst.edu

Vietta Kuntz • Physics and BCBP, Class of 2023
(Summer 2020-present) • vkuntz23@amherst.edu

Joanna Idrovo • BCBP, Class of 2023
(Summer 2020-Summer 2021) • jidrovo23@amherst.edu

Genaro Torres • BCBP, Class of 2022
(Summer 2020-Spring 2022) • gtorres22@amherst.edu

Lynn Fu • BCBP, Class of 2022
(January 2019-Spring 2022) • lfu22@amherst.edu

Andrea Boskovic • Math and Statistics, Class of 2021
(Summer 2018- Summer 2021) •
Andrea is currently in Stats graduate school at University of Washington.

Kate Jones • BCBP, Class of 2021
(Summer 2018-Summer 2021) • kmjones21@amherst.edu
Kate is currently at Yale to work as a postbac in the Lucas Lab. He plans to do a MD/PhD in 2 years.

Donna Roscoe • BCBP and Psychology, Class of 2021
(January 2019 – Summer 2021) • droscoe21@amherst.edu
Donna is currently a graduate student at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Youna Choi • Neuro, Class of 2022
(January 2019) • ychoi22@amherst.edu
Youna is currently a graduate student at Brown, working at the NIH.

Yilikal Sarka • BCBP, Class of 2021
(Summer 2017) • ysarka19@amherst.edu
Yilikal is planning on heading back to Ethiopia.

Ryan McMillan • BCBP and Physics, Class of 2020
(January 2017-Summer 2020) • rmcmillan20@amherst.edu
Ryan won a Fulbright Fellowship and will work in the Dietz Lab in Germany next year. He also won an NSF Fellowship as an undergraduate and will start at Harvard Biophysics the following Fall.

Emily Ma • BCBP, Class of 2020
(Summer 2017-Summer 2020) • yuma20@amherst.edu
Emily will be a Q Fellow at Amherst College before heading off to medical school.

Ruth Mosunmade • BCBP, Class of 2020
(Summer 2017-Spring 2020) •
Ruth is planning on attending medical school after a postbac year at Elms College.

Ndukwo (Biafra) Okoronkwo • Asian Studies and Global Health, Class of 2020
(Fall 2019-Spring 2020) •
Biafra will be doing contract tracing in the coronavirus pandemic after graduating. He is planning on going to graduate school to get a Masters in Public Health in about 3 years.

Peter Cho • BCBP, Class of 2019
(Summer 2016-Summer 2019) •
Peter is currently at Biomedical Engineering graduate school at Duke.

Ashwin Balaji • BCBP, Class of 2019
(January 2018-Summer 2019) •
Ashwin is currently in the Biophysics graduate program at Stanford.

Hilary Bediako • BCBP, Class of 2019
(Summer 2016-Summer 2019) •
Hilary is currently at medical school at Penn.

Moumita Dasgupta • Teaching Fellow while at Amherst
(Summer 2016-Summer 2018) •
Moumita went to Smith for a Visiting Assistant Professorship after Amherst. She is now an Assistant Professor at Augsberg University in Minnesota.

Bishop Grimm • Physics, Class of 2018
(Summer 2016-Spring 2018) •
Bishop is in materials science graduate school.

Obinna Ukogu • BCBP and Math, Class of 2018
(January 2015-Summer 2018) •
After leaving Amherst, Obinna took a financial research position with Capstone Research. He is planning to go to Math graduate school in Fall 2020 at University of Washington.

Adam Smith • BCBP, Class of 2017
(Summer 2015-Summer 2017) •
Adam worked for a year as a legal intern at McAndrews, Held, and Malloy in DC. Now he is in law school at Stanford and is also getting a Masters in Bioengineering there.

Luka Devenica • BCBP and Physics, Class of 2017
(Summer 2014-Summer 2018) •
Luka is currently in physics graduate school at Emory.

Elizabeth White • BCBP, Class of 2017
(Summer 2014-Summer 2017) •
Elizaeth is currently in biophysics graduate school at University of Chicago and is working in the Scherer Lab.

Matt Woop • Physics, Class of 2016E
(Summer 2014-Spring 2015) •
Matt is currently a data engineer with iSentium in Miami, FL.

Ji Hoon Lee • Physics, Class of 2016
(Summer 2013-Spring 2014) •
Ji Hoon did a theory thesis with Professors Loinaz and Jagu. After studying at Cambridge for a year and then working at McGill, Ji Hoon is currently at the Perimeter Institute for physics graduate school.

Eileen Troconis Gonzalez • Biology, Class of 2015
(Spring 2015) •
Eileen did her thesis with Joe Trapani in Biology in collaboration with the Carter Lab. She then went to Cambridge for a year and is now at Cornell doing a VMD/PhD.

Terri-Anne Hultum • Physics, Class of 2015
(Summer 2012 – Summer 2013) •
After Amherst, Terri went to computer science graduate school at NC State.

Clay Contee • Physics, Class of 2014 (Hampshire College)
(Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) • clay.contee@gmail.com
After graduating, did a one year Bridge program at University of Massachusetts, then a Masters at Illinois Institute of Technology before heading to Penn for physics graduate school.

Matt Kurek • Physics, Class of 2014
(Summer 2013 – Fall 2014) •
Currently a programmer at Rockstar Games in Massachusetts.

Raysa Cabrejo • Chemistry, Class of 2014
(Spring 2013) •
Raysa went to medical school at Yale and graduated in 2019 with an MD/MHS. She did a 1-year surgery internship at Yale New Haven Hospital and will be continuing her residency next year at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in their plastic and reconstructive surgery program.

Shahzad Anwar • BCBP, Class of 2014
(Summer 2012) •
After Amherst, Shahzad went to chemical engineering at Columbia. He interned for Boeing and is currently working at Amazon.

Marco Catipovic • BCBP, Class of 2014
(Summer 2012 – Summer 2014) •
Currently a graduate student in Harvard’s Biophysics program working in the Rapoport lab. Marco got his PhD in 2020!

Paul Tyler • Biology, Class of 2014
(Fall 2011-Spring 2012) •
Currently at Harvard graduate school working in the Dougan Lab at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and studying cancer immunology using mouse models.

Robert Flynn • Physics and Music, Class of 2013
(January 2012) •
After graduating he took a position as the Orchestral Graduate Associate here at Amherst College. Currently working in Boston, MA.

Cheyenne Teng • Physics, Class of 2013
(January 2012) •
Currently in Electrical Engineering graduate school at Princeton working in Gerard Wysocki’s lab on laser spectroscopy.

Robert Schwab • BCBP, Class of 2013
(Fall 2011-Spring 2013) • robert.d.schwab@gmail.com
After graduating he worked at UPenn Medical School in the June lab doing HIV and Leukemia research. He graduated from medical school at UPenn in 2019 and is a resident at Hospital UPenn (HUP).

Fan Feng • Chemistry and Economics, Class of 2013
(Spring 2011) •
Currently doing energy trading with DC Energy located in Vienna, VA.

Frederick Shipley • Physics and BCBP, Class of 2013
(Summer 2010-Spring 2013) • frshipley@gmail.com
After graduating he worked in the Leifer Lab at Princeton doing research in neuroscience using optogenetics. Currently he is a graduate student in Harvard’s Biophysics program and is working in the Lehtinen Lab.

Ysabel Woody • Black Studies, Class of 2012
(Summer 2010) • ysabel.woody@gmail.com
After graduating she worked in alumni and parent programs at Amherst College. Currently she is working in Washington DC at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is thinking about physics graduate school and energy research

Robot Team 2019

Eva Lau ’19, Lynn Fu ’22, Mina Lee ’22
Josh Burns ’22, Ajay Sarathy ’21, Flanagan Waldherr ’22

Robot Team 2018

Devin Epstein ’21, Ingrid Shu ’20, Donna Roscoe ’21,
Allan Phillips ’20, Abdoulaye Sanogo ’19, Ellen Mutter ’18