David Baker, PhD
Director, Institute for Protein Design
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Genome Sciences, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Washington
Mohamad Abedi
Postdoc
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Woody Ahern
Grad Student
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Green Ahn
Postdoc
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Han Raut Altae-Tran
Postdoc
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Linna An
Postdoc
linnaan
Linna An developed ML-based small molecule binding and sensing pipelines.
Milorad Andjelkovic
Visitor
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Pooja Bandawane
Grad Student
banda14
Magnus Bauer
Postdoc
magnusb
Magnus is exploring the design of kinases and protein-based inhibitors to decode and manipulate cellular logic.
Neville Bethel
Staff
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Riti Biswas
Grad Student
ritib
Riti is working on antibody design to accelerate biologic therapeutics R&D.
Yang Bo
Postdoc
yangbo
Yang is designing proteins for tissue-specific drug delivery.
Julia Bonzanini
Grad Student
jbonz
Julia is making proteins that can specifically bind to peptide-MHC molecules for cancer immunotherapy.
Adam Broerman
Grad Student
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Adam is designing motions, mechanics, and kinetics of dynamic protein assemblies.
Adam Chazin-Gray
Grad Student
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Wei Chen
Postdoc
wchen108
Wei is designing proteins to modulate gene expression
Yvonne Chen
Visitor
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David Chmielewski
Postdoc
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Hojun Choi
Postdoc
lepionce
Hojun is interested in designing protein tools to sense and control endogenous signaling events.
Hojae Choi
Grad Student
hojaec
Rishabh Chowhan
Staff
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Jung Ho Chun
Postdoc
jhchun
Jungho is designing proteins that modulate immune cells to differentiate into specific cell stages and elicit desired immune responses.
Alexis Courbet
Staff
acourbet
Alexis is a protein nanomachine designer and AI-based protein design researcher, exploring the field from first principles to translation.
Brian Coventry
Staff
bcov
Brian is trying to understand the forces that stick proteins together
Wenzhao Dai
Visitor
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Cullen Demakis
Grad Student
cdemakis
Cullen is designing protein motors that cycle between multiple well-defined states under power.
Abishai Ebenezer
Staff
abishai
Abishai works on improving generative machine learning models for designing new proteins.
Nathan Ennist
Staff
ennist
Nate is designing proteins for artificial photosynthesis with the long-term goal of producing renewable fuel.
Declan Evans
Postdoc
dme5188
Declan is designing enzymes for reactions not observed in Nature
Marc Exposit
Grad Student
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Andrew Favor
Grad Student
afavor
Andrew is developing deep learning models to design complexes containing both proteins and nucleic acids.
Mariana Garcia Sanchez
Staff
marigs
Jacob Gershon
Grad Student
jgershon
Cameron Glasscock
Staff
cjg263
Matthias Gloegl
Postdoc
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Inna Goreshnik
Staff
ig1983
Nathan Greenwood
Staff
forest77
Nathan is designing protein binders to target cancer and increase our understanding of biology.
Laura Guerrero
Grad Student
lgue26
Zhichun Guo
Postdoc
zcguo
Ella Haefner
Grad Student
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Hannah Han
Staff
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Nikita Hanikel
Postdoc
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Stephanie Hanna
Grad Student
hannas1
Florence Hardy
Postdoc
fjhardy
Florence is designing light activated enzymes using noncanonical amino acid photosensitisers.
Luca Herrmann
Visitor
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Derrick Hicks
Staff
drhicks1
Donald Hilvert
Visitor
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Shingo Honda
Postdoc
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Yang Hsia
Staff
yhsia
Yang is interested in designing protein and protein-adjacent bio-materials across different length scales (nano- to macro-scale).
Tim Huddy
Staff
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Ian Humphreys
Postdoc
ianhumph
Ian is using deep learning and coevolution to predict proteome-wide protein interactions
Andrew Hunt
Postdoc
ach94
Andrew is designing enzymes and developing high-throughput assays.
Abbas Idris
Grad Student
aidris1
Marouane Jaakik
Visitor
mj84
Shruti Jain
Grad Student
sjain2
Jihun Jeung
Grad Student
jeung
David Juergens
Postdoc
davidcj
Indrek Kalvet
Staff
ikalvet
Indrek is designing new enzymes based on catalytic cofactor binding.
Sebastian Kenny
Postdoc
skenny97
Kenny is designing minibinder proteins to perform targeted protein degradation for novel therapeutic applications.
Ryan Kibler
Postdoc
rdkibler
Ryan is designing proteins for lanthanide separation
Chan Johng Kim
Postdoc
chanjkim
Paul Kim
Grad Student
ptkim
Paul is working on generative models for design of DNA-binding-proteins, with the eventual goal of optimizing for specificity.
David Kim
Staff
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Donghyo Kim
Postdoc
donghyo
Donghyo is designing de novo enzymes using deep learning methods.
Yakov Kipnis
Staff
yak
Yakov is working on computational enzyme design.
Steffen Klein
Postdoc
sklein89
Steffen is working on the development of novel protein tags for cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM).
Owen Henry Knight
Undergrad
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Rohith Krishna
Grad Student
rohith
Aditya Krishnakumar
Grad Student
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Andrew Kubaney
Grad Student
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Paul Kwon
Grad Student
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Anna Lauko
Grad Student
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Gyu Rie Lee
Staff
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David Lee
Grad Student
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Mauriz Lichtenstein
Visitor
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Mauriz is a visiting Masters student from the FU Berlin and working on redesigning TCRs and cytokines to target cancers.
Michelin Lin
Staff
hl0320
Caixuan Liu
Postdoc
lcx425
Yulai Liu
Grad Student
ylliu15
Bingxu Liu
Postdoc
bxliu
Peik Lund-Andersen
Grad Student
peikl
Sagardip Majumder
Postdoc
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Simon Mathis
Visitor
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Clara McCurdy
Grad Student
cmccurdy
Clara is designing proteins to edit the epigenome and stabilize blood vessels for therapeutics.
Ryan McHugh
Grad Student
rpmchugh
Ryan is training machine learning models specialized for predicting the structure and specificity of DNA-binding proteins.
Nora McNamara-Bordewick
Grad Student
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Ljubica Mihaljevic
Postdoc
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Lukas Milles
Staff
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Joe Min
Grad Student
joemin
Joe is interested in developing methods to redesign native proteins to combat the effects of climate change.
Uma Mitchell
Undergrad
umam3
Oliver Morell
Visitor
omorell
Oliver is exploring how protein design models can generate cross-reactive and/or specific binders by considering multiple targets
Amir Motmaen
Grad Student
amotmaen
Amir is working on using protein design to program and direct T cell for immunotherapy applications targeting solid tumors.
Edin Muratspahic
Postdoc
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Robert Pecoraro
Grad Student
robpec
Robert is working on the computational design of proteins that bind specific DNA sequences.
Sam Pellock
Staff
spellock
Sam is interested in designing enzymes that go fast.
Annika Philomin
Grad Student
aphilo
Arvind Pillai
Postdoc
apillai1
Yuliya Politanska
Grad Student
ypolit
Harley Pyles
Staff
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Jason Qian
Postdoc
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Xiangli Qu
Postdoc
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Riley Quijano
Grad Student
rnquijan
Robert Ragotte
Postdoc
ragotte
Rob is designing proteins that neutralize pathogens and alter cell signalling pathways
Nicole Roullier
Staff
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Shayan Sadre
Grad Student
ssadre
Shayan is interested in designing binders to modulate protein homeostasis.
Saman Salike
Grad Student
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Stephanie Sansbury
Postdoc
ssans
Isaac Sappington
Grad Student
ikesapp
Isaac is developing methods to solve protein-protein interface design, enabling the creation of de novo protein therapeutics and cytokines
Amijai Saragovi
Postdoc
amijais
Christina Savvides
Grad Student
savvides
Christina is interested in designing immunomodulators to treat autoimmune diseases.
Thomas Schlichthaerle
Postdoc
thomschl
DeJenae See
Grad Student
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Enisha Sehgal
Grad Student
esehgal
Shajesh Sharma
Grad Student
shajesh
Shajesh is designing small molecule sensors to optimize engineered metabolic pathways.
Will Sheffler
Staff
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Kathryn Shelley
Postdoc
ks427
Kathryn is designing proteins that undergo light-driven conformational change.
Hao Shen
Postdoc
shenh2
Alexander Shida
Grad Student
ashida
Hojeong Shin
Postdoc
hojshin
Ellen Shrock
Postdoc
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Jeremiah Sims
Postdoc
simsjn
Abhishek Singh
Postdoc
as393
Abhishek is creating catalysts inside evolving nanostructures formed through de novo protein self-assembly.
Zihao Song
Grad Student
zhsong
Zihao is interested in designing a synthetic proteome
Ria Sonigra
Grad Student
rias04
Ria is working on de novo design of nanopores for biosensing applications
Kiera Sumida
Grad Student
khsumida
Kiera is designing enzymes for plastic degradation.
Eric Sun
Grad Student
suneric
Avi Swartz
Grad Student
azswartz
Avi is designing new photosystems for artificial photosynthesis
Mia Switzer
Undergrad
miaswit
Kirsten Thompson
Grad Student
kathomps
Tuscan Rock Thompson
Grad Student
tuscant
Long Tran
Grad Student
lhtran
Dionne Vafeados
Staff
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Preetham Venkatesh
Grad Student
preetham
Preetham is designing next-generation therapeutics for chronic pain and metabolic disorders
Shunzhi Wang
Staff
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Xinru Wang
Staff
xinruw7
Yujia Wang
Postdoc
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Roni Weissman
Grad Student
ronimw
Roni is working on designing new nanocage modalities for delivery.
Will White
Postdoc
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Jonas Wilhelm
Postdoc
jonaswil
Jonas is designing enzymes that catalyze new-to-nature reactions
Max Witwer
Undergrad
mwitwer
Seth Woodbury
Grad Student
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Seth is designing de novo (metallo)enzymes from transition state theozymes for diverse catalytic and photocatalytic applications.
Kejia Wu
Grad Student
kejiawu
Kejia is on methods development for peptides/intrinsically disordered regions binding.
Jinwei Xu
Postdoc
jinweixu
Fanglei Xue
Visitor
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Wei Yang
Postdoc
wyang12
Wei Yang is designing de novo binders for immune modulation.
Tracy Yu
Postdoc
tracyy2
Tracy is working on developing bone-mimetic materials via controlled biomineralization using designed fibrous proteins.
Jason Zhang
Postdoc
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