Evan Rheaume

Graduate Student

Education

Physics PhD Student Georgia Institute of Technology: August 2022 -- Present
Physics and Astronomy B.S. California State University, Long Beach: August 2018 -- May 2022

• Student Leadership: Student Present Council President of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in 2021-2022

Honors & Awards

• InQuBATE Training Grant, 2023-2025
• Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship, 2022-2026
• CSU Long Beach, Richard D. Green Dean Award, 2022
• Google Summer Research Assistantship, 2021
• Edison STEM-NET Student Research Fellowship Program, 2021
• CSULB University President's List, 2018-2022

Research

The Physics of Living Systems

Current Research: Dynamics of multiple pacemaker regions in sea squirts (tunicates). Development of a cross-platform, camera independent Optical Mapping Application.

Previous Research: Analysis of topologically linked catenanes from kinetoplast DNA using nanopore technology

Papers

Nanopore Translocation of Topologically Linked DNA Catenanes

Talks & Presentations

• SIAM Mathematics of Data Science 2024: Using Phase Space for Defibrillation in Cardiac Tissue
• SIAM Annual Meeting 2024: A Modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model that Reproduces the Action Potential and Dynamics of the ten Tusscher et. al Cardiac Model in Tissue and Comparison to Human Tissue
• International Physics of Living Systems Conference 2024: \textit{Spatially Distributed Alternans in Human Heart Failure Patient}
• APS March Meeting 2024: A Modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model that Reproduces the Action Potential and Dynamics of the Ten Tusscher et. al  Cardiac Model in Tissue
• Computing in Cardiology 2023: A Modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model that Reproduces the Action Potential and Dynamics of the Ten Tusscher et. al  Cardiac Model in Tissue
• APS March Meeting 2022: Translocations of topologically linked rings from kinetoplast DNA through a solid-state nanopore
• CSUPERB: 2022 CSU Biotechnology Symposium: Nanopore translocation of topologically linked rings from kinetoplast DNA 
• CECAM Nanopore Translocation and Nanochannel Confirned Biopolymers 2021: bridging theory and experiments: Nanopore translocation of topologically linked rings from kinetoplast DNA
• Edison STEM-NET Student Research Fellowship Program Sympossium 2021: Nanopore Spectroscopy of Complex DNA Structures
• CSU Long Beach, Physics & Astronomy Department Week of RSCA 2021: Identification of Kinetoplast DNA through Nanopore Electrical Signals

Theses

Proposal: (Coming Soon) Optical Mapping of the Tunicate Heart and Software Development

Works in Progress

Defibrillating Cardiac Tissue Through Phase Space Perturbations