Curriculum Vitae


Alan Selewa

selewa@uchicago.edu

Education

Ph.D., Biophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
2016 - Present

B.Sc., Physics
with Honors
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009 - 2014

Honors & Awards

Undergraduate Research Symposium Award
Shell Scholar Undergraduate Research Award
Robert A. Stein Award

Publications

[ 1 ] S. Banerjee, K. Lo, M.K. Daddysman, A. Selewa , T. Kuntz, A.R. Dinner, N.F. Scherer, “Crossover in the dynamics of cell growth controls Caulobacter division times,” Nat. Microbiol. 2, 17116 (2017).

[ 2 ] T. Huynh, M.K. Daddysman, Y. Bao, A. Selewa , A. Kuznetsov, L.H. Philipson, N.F. Scherer, “Correlative imaging across microscopy platforms using the fast and accurate relocation of microscopic experimental regions (FARMER) method,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 88, 15. (2017).

Invited Talks

“Volumetric Image Reconstruction in Multi-focal Microscopy,” Argonne National Laboratory, June 6th, 2016.

Research Experience

Graduate Researcher
Department of Human Genetics
University of Chicago
PI: Xin He
2017 (Rotation)

Evaluating gene functional constraint using new and existing codon substitution models. Emperical amino acid substitution matrices.

Research Specialist
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago
PI: Norbert Scherer
2015 - 2016

Development of multi-focal microscopy. Image analysis and reconstruction using maximum likelihood.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant
ECE 340 - Semiconductor Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2014