gatic (at) pennmedicine.upenn.edu

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3693-7009

Google Scholar: Citations

BlueSky: @gati.bsky.social

Twitter: @CorneliusGati

CV: CV-Gati

Cornelius performed his PhD work in the group of Henry Chapman at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY, Germany. The focus of his PhD was the development of the technique of serial crystallography at modern X-ray light sources, namely third generation synchrotrons and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers.

After his PhD he moved on to do a PostDoc in the lab of Sjors Scheres at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where he learnt everything about single particle cryoEM. From 2018-2020 he was an independent group leader at SLAC National lab and the Stanford School of Medicine.

In 2021, Cornelius joined USC as an Assistant Professor for Biological Sciences. He also holds a joint appointment with the Departments of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacological Sciences, and Quantitative and Computational Biology.

In 2026, the lab is relocating to the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Graduate Student

ast_803 (at) usc.edu

Twitter: @803Ast

Aaliyah obtained a B.S. in Biochemistry from Loyola Marymount University in 2022. During her time at Loyola Marymount University she joined the group of David Moffet to study protein aggregation in the context of type 2 diabetes. In his lab, she participated in the lab’s efforts of screening  molecules to identify inhibitors of IAPP. Upon completing her undergraduate studies in 2023, she joined the Chemistry program at USC and subsequently the Gati lab. In the Gati lab she will complete her graduate research using cryoEM to investigate GPCR structure at the atomic scale to gain insight on the connection between their interactions with ligands and signaling partners and the pharmacological properties of these receptors.

Graduate Student

Houming received his Bachelor degree at Southern University of Science and Technology(SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. His undergraduate work focused on a very unique subfamily of G protein-coupled receptor(GPCR): Adhesion GPCR. His work aimed to investigate the biochemical and structural characterization of BAI3-C1QL1 interaction for selecting single-winner climbing fiber. During his time at SUSTech, he learned experimental skills regarding molecular cloning, cell culture, protein expression, protein purification and protein interaction. Also, he has experience on crystal screening and negative staining EM for structural studies. Houming was admitted into the MCB PhD program at USC and joined Dr. Gati’s lab in August 2023. He will continually study the structural basis of several synaptic transmission related GPCR for his graduate thesis.

Graduate Student

mranjbar (at) usc.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0395-8260
Google Scholar: Citations

Mohsen received his PharmD degree from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2016. His thesis was the synthesis of benzoxazole derivatives as antimicrobial and antifungal agents. Additionally, he worked on homology modeling for the H2 receptor. He got his master’s degree in chemistry and chemical biology from the University of New Mexico in 2023, where he worked with Dr. Elaine Bearer on using machine learning and data mining to identify genes that could be important in autophagy machinery. After completion of his studies at UNM, he joined PhD program in chemistry at USC in August 2023.

Graduate Student

PostDoc

Ravi Yadav (2022-2025), Postdoc in Mchaourab Lab - Vanderbilt University

Omar Salah (2023-2024), now graduate student at CalTech

Anthony Chen (2022-2023), now graduate student at Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP)

Tristan Mitchell (2022-2024)

Zenia Motiwala (2021-2024), now Senior Scientist at Amgen

Nanda Aduri (2019-2022), now Senior Scientist at Janssen R&D

Xinyu Xiang (2018), now graduate student at Stanford University

Jesse Coe (2018-2020), now Senior Scientist at KBI Biopharma