
Our interdisciplinary team stretches across the entire United States, spanning three jurisdictions – Idaho, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The researchers are equipped with expertise in computational protein modeling, diverse biological systems, measurement of protein biophysical properties, and mathematical modeling. The group is comprised of talented faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students and staff.
Meet the team
The RII Track-2 FEC research team consists of researchers and scientists from across the country.

Nearly 35 researchers and scientists gathered for the first time in May of 2018.

Brian Cleveley
University of Idaho
Senior Instructor
Virtual Technology & Design
Protein
Employing Augmented Reality to explore proteins through the interplay of interactive 3D virtual and physical models.

Jean-Marc Gauthier
University of Idaho
Associate Professor
Virtual Technology & Design
Dynamic virtual protein: visualization, interaction patterns, collaboration with virtual agents, evaluation of user experience.

Brent Lockwood
Co-PIUniversity of Vermont
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Enzyme assays, fluorescence anisotropy, confocal fluorescence microscopy, reverse genetics.

Chris Marx
University of Idaho
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Craig Miller
Co-PIUniversity of Idaho
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
phiX174 and related bacteriophage, their capsid proteins, and their interactions with host bacteria.
Deep mutational scanning, one-pot mutagenesis, golden gate genome assembly, epistasis, statistical modeling.

Tanya Miura
University of Idaho
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Fusion (F) glycoprotein.
Reverse genetics/recombinant virus production, virus inhibition assays, virus evolution experiments, flow cytometry, antibody production and purification, mammalian cell culture and transfection, microscopy, cell fusion assays, mutant library design and expression cloning.

Mandar T Naik
Brown University
Assistant Professor
Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology

Brandon Ogbunu
Co-PIBrown University
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jagdish Patel
University of Idaho
Research Assistant Professor
Molecular Modeling

Melissa Pespeni
University of Vermont
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology

Paul Rowley
University of Idaho
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Brenda Rubenstein
Brown University
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry

Andreas Vasdekis
University of Idaho
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics

Daniel Weinreich
Co-PIBrown University
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Computational Molecular Biology

Holly Wichman
University of Idaho
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Marty Ytreberg
PI University of Idaho
Professor
Department of Physics