People

• 
  Lance Denes, PhD
  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  Hi, I’m Lance. I like to surf and ride my bike. Most days I think about science. I trained with Eric Wang at the University of Florida College of Medicine for my PhD, where we discovered that RNA molecules can’t move in muscle cells. I did my postdoctoral research with Timothee Lionnet and Liam Holt at the NYU School of Medicine, where we discovered that disordered protein function doesn’t require linear sequence. I’m applying for faculty positions, where I hope to connect biophysics and genetics using generative design of disordered proteins with biophysical assays and quantitative phenotypes in stem cell and animal models.

  PhD, Biomedical Science, University of Florida (2021)
  BS, Chemistry, University of Florida (2015)
  lance dot denes at nyulangone dot org
  @lancetdenes
  @lancedenes.bsky.social
  ORCID 0000-0003-1763-3325

Current mentees

• 
  Nongyun Wang
  PhD candidate, NYU Tandon

  MSc, NYU Tandon
  2021–present

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  Devi Chirumamilla
  Undergraduate, NYU Tandon

  2023–present

Past mentees

• 2023–2025Rashmi Mohotti, MSc NYU Tandon · now PhD candidate, UVA
• 2021–2023Siddhi Bhutada, MSc NYU Tandon · now PhD candidate, U Manchester
• 2021–2023Finnegan Clark · now MD student, Vanderbilt
• 2021–2023Angelina Ziarno · now MD student, Penn
• 2019–2021Zhuangyue Li, PhD · now postdoc, UC Irvine
• 2019–2021Leanne Adams, research assistant
• 2017–2021Kiril Poukalov, PhD · now postdoc, UT Southwestern
• 2017–2021Juan Arboleda, PhD · now postdoc, UC Irvine