Ph.D. Trainees

Kathy Chaurasiya

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Department: Physics
Advisor: Mark Williams

Collaborators: Penny Beuning

Kathy studied at Simmons College for her B.S. in Physics and Chemistry, and she is currently a Ph.D. student in the Physics Department at Northeastern University. She works in the Williams Laboratory, using optical tweezers to investigate DNA-protein interactions.

Projects

• Investigating Quantum Dot Toxicity by Quantifying DNA Polymerase Activity with Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy