Assistant Professor of Biophysics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Missouri, Columbia
Contact: ckcassidy [at] missouri.edu
Office: Physics Building 218
Postdoc University of Oxford (Computational Biochemistry)
Ph.D. & M.Sc. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Physics)
B.Sc. University of Arkansas (Physics)
Graduate Students
John Miles, Physics
Joined Fall 2023
Mechanisms of CheA signaling and regulation
Ashan Gunarathna, Physics
Joined Spring 2025
Protein-lipid interactions in low-density lipoprotein
Fahmida Rahmen, Physics
Joined Fall 2025
Lipid binding by exchangeable lipoproteins
Undergraduate Students
Tricia Denn (Physics B.Sc., Spring 2025)
Joined Fall 2024
Cadidalysin oligomerization and clustering
Peyton Kruger, Biomedical Engineering
Joined Fall 2024 (BioFLARE)
Chemoreceptor-lipid interactions
Hanoch Koshy, Physics
Joined Fall 2025
ATP binding and hydrolysis in CheA