Welcome
The Baker Lab develops protein design software and uses it to create molecules that solve challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability. By iterating between computation and laboratory experiments, we continually improve our protein design methods.
We believe in open collaborative science, and we’re always looking for new people to join our efforts.
Research Areas
Latest
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Congrats Helen!
Now a 2024 Curci PhD Fellow, grad student Helen Eisenach is using computational methods to advance vaccine development and drug delivery.
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Morphing protein assemblies by design
Inspired by dynamic molecules found in cells, these tiny objects change shape when exposed to effector molecules.
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Congrats Jason!
Postdoc Jason Zhang, PhD, has received a K99 award from the National Institutes of Health. He’s building tools to understand how cancer cells learn…
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Designing synthetic smell receptors
“When we started with this idea a few years ago, many people thought it was impossible.”
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Congrats Shunzhi!
Postdoc Shunzhi Wang, PhD, has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund career award. He’s designing new tools for drug delivery.
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Congrats Green!
Postdoc Green Ahn, PhD, has been named a 2024 Jane Coffin Childs-HHMI Fellow. She’s probing biology in new ways to build tomorrow’s cancer treatments.
Transitions
| August 2024 | • Congratulations to grad students Susana Vazquez Torres, Ian Humphreys, and Jeremiah Sims on defending their PhD theses. |
| July 2024 | • Welcome new postdoc Zhichun Guo and visitors Luca Herrmann, and Fanglei Xue. • Welcome visiting scholar Yvonne Chen, professor in the department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at UCLA. |
| June 2024 | • Congratulations to postdoc Lukas Milles who will be starting his own a lab this summer as an Emmy Noether Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and University of Munich. • Congratulations to graduate students Pascal Sturmfels and David Juergens on defending their PhD theses. • Welcome new postdoc Tracy Yu; new graduate students Hojae Choi, Riley Quijano, Tuscan Rock Thompson, Shayan Sadre, Enisha Sehgal, Eric Sun, and Roni Weissman; and new rotation students Stephanie Adaniya and Peter Young. • Welcome visiting scholar Don Hilvert, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich. |
| May 2024 | • Welcome new postdoc Florence Hardy and visitor Milorad Andjelkovic. |
| April 2024 | • Welcome new postdoc Steffen Klein and visitor Wenzhao Dai. • Congratulations to grad student Will White on defending his PhD thesis. |