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ELIZABETH BERRIGAN
berri104@mail.chapman.edu
http://elizabethberrigan.wordpress.com/
EDUCATION:
Oxford University Study Abroad Program, Oxford, England, September 2013-December 2013
Chapman University, Orange, CA
Bachelor of Science, Major: Physics, December 2013
Bachelor of Science, Major: Biochemistry, May 2013
University Honors Program
GPA: 4.0/4.0
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Chancellor’s List, 2009-Present
Chancellor’s Scholarship, 2009-Present
Departmental Honors in Physics, 2013
Departmental Honors in Biochemistry, 2013
CRC Award for Excellence in Chemistry, 2013
Outstanding Senior in Physics, 2013
Outstanding Senior in Biochemistry, 2013
Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention, 2013
Golden Key Honors Society, 2012-2013
FASEB MARC Travel Award, 2012
Mortar Board Honors Society, 2012
Grant for Research in Cellular Electromagnetism from Chapman University Honors Program,
2012
Gamma Beta Phi Honor’s Society, 2010
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
 Holography
 Quantum many-body physics
 Entanglement
 Topological order
 More generally: quantum field theory and string theory
PUBLICATIONS:
Lawless, N., Blacklock, K., Berrigan, E. and Verkhivker, G. “Structural Bioinformatics and
Protein Docking Analysis of the Molecular Chaperone-Kinase Interactions: Towards
Allosteric Inhibition of Protein Kinases by Targeting the Hsp90-Cdc37 Chaperone
Machinery,” Pharmaceuticals 2013, 6, 1407-1428
Akahoshi,L., Berrigan,E., Boone,M., Chesne,R., James,C., Lawless,N., Punton,S., Singh,H.,
Swinford,N., Zylstra,A. and Rowland-Goldsmith,M. (2011) Jacaranda mimosifolia
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC-1) gene, partial cds.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/JF440302.1
PRE-PRINT:
Berrigan, E., Lobo, A., Ribiero, C., Tollaksen, J, “Weak Values, Modular Variables and the
Quantum Phase Space,” 2013.
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UNDERGRADUATE THESES:
Chapman University, Physics Major and University Honors Program:
Direct Advisor: Prof. Augusto Lobo
“Schwinger’s Finite Quantum Kinematics and Aharonov’s Dynamical Non-locality Concept,”
2013.
Chapman University, Biochemistry Major:
Advisors: Dr. Alexandra Naba, Prof. Richard Hynes
“Elucidating the Role of Cell Adhesion and Metastasis of SNED1 Extracellular Matrix
Protein,” 2013.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
MIT Summer Research Program, Physics Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Researcher/Intern, June 2013-August 2013
Research Advisor: Prof. Hong Liu
 Studied time evolution of entanglement entropy using the holographic principle in a
system approaching equilibrium to understand how different quantum subsystems are
correlated over time.
Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Student Researcher, September 2012-Present
Research Advisors: Prof. Augusto Lobo, Prof. Jeff Tollaksen, and Prof. Yakir Aharonov
 Constructed periodic phase space of modular variables in the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Student Researcher, September 2011-November 2012
Research Advisor: Prof. Gennady Verkhivker
 Created a novel model of HSP90 with co-chaperone CDC37 and client kinase protein
CDK4 using the experimental restraints gathered from the literature incorporation with
HADDOCK molecular docking program.
MIT Summer Research Program in Biology, Koch Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Researcher/Intern, June 2012-August 2012
Research Advisors: Prof. Richard Hynes and Dr. Alexandra Naba
 Constructed, expressed and extracted human and mouse constructs of a novel prometastatic protein of the extracellular matrix.
Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Student Researcher, August 2011-February 2011
Research Advisor: Prof. Eric Minassian
 Explored interdisciplinary area of electromagnetism in biological and chemical reactions.
 Built private library concerning electromagnetism and its effects on cells and cell
processes.
Crean School of Health and Life Sciences, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Student Researcher, September 2010-January 2011
Research Advisor: Prof. Rowland-Goldsmith
 Extracted Jacaranda mimosifolia GAPC gene. Assembled and annotated gene sequence
using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. Successfully submitted sequence to GenBank.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Evolution of Entanglement in Holographic Systems,” APS March Meeting, Denver, Colorado,
March, 2014.
“Evolution of Entanglement in Holographic Systems,” Conference for Undergraduate Women in
Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, January, 2014.
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“Experimentally-Guided Modeling of HSP90 interactions with Protein Kinase Clients using
HADDOCK Molecular Docking Program, ” Annual Biomedical Research Conference for
Minority Students, San Jose, CA, November, 2012.
“Elucidating the Role of Cell Adhesion and Metastasis of SNED1 Extracellular Matrix Protein,”
MIT Summer Research Program Poster Presentation, Cambridge, MA, August, 2012.
Co-author: “Organizing Molecular Principles of the Molecular Chaperone Dynamics and
Regulatory Interactions” International Conference of Computational Biology, Long Beach,
CA, July, 2012.
Co-author: “Organizing Molecular Principles of the Molecular Chaperone Dynamics and
Regulatory Interactions” International Biophysics Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2012.
“War: An Abomination by Man, or an Illness. An Existential Analysis of Les Chemins De La
Liberté” Western Regionals Honors Council Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April
2012.
“Women in Love through a Nietzschean Lens: An Analysis Tracing the Character’s Paths through
the Novel,” Western Regionals Honors Council Conference, Park City, Utah, March, 2011.
“Assembling Contiguous Sequences Using Automated CAP3 Sequence Assembly Program: An
Attempt to Sequence the Novel GAPC Gene in Jacaranda mimosifolia,” Chapman Student
Research Fair, Orange, CA, March 2011.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
Chapman University Tutoring Center, Orange, CA
General Physics Private Tutor, September 2011- May 2013
 Regularly met with students taking introductory physics courses to review material and
practice problems. (4-6 tutees per week)
General Physics Supplemental Instructor, September 2011- March 2012
 Regularly attended general physics lectures.
 Guided group tutoring sessions. (2-5 tutees per group, held bi-weekly and on request)
 Lectured class review sessions (20-30 students on average, 4 hours per week).
Statistics and General Chemistry Tutor, January 2010-May 2011
 Assisted students enrolled in statistics and chemistry in understanding the material (2-4
tutees per week).
Friendly Center, Orange, CA
Tutor, January 2010-November 2010
 Aided elementary through high school children with homework, organizational skills and
preparation for college (20 hrs/week).
RELEVANT SKILLS:
Computer: Mathematica, LaTeX, Python, Linux, Molecular Modeling programs: VMD, Pymol,
HARLEM, HADDOCK
Language: Fluent in Spanish
SOCIETIES:
Association for Women in Physics
American Physical Society
Society for Physics Students