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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Mohamad is designing proteins to understand and manipulate cell signaling networks
Woody Ahern
Grad Student
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Green Ahn
Postdoc
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Green is designing proteins to modulate cellular processes involved in cancer.
Ali Alattar
Undergrad
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Ali is designing phosphorylation-inducible heterodimers.
Han Raut Altae-Tran
Postdoc
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Han is studying nucleic acids and design methods
Linna An
Acting Instructor
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Linna An developed ML-based small molecule binding and sensing pipelines.
Pooja Bandawane
Grad Student
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Roman Barth
Postdoc
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Roman is designing novel enzymatic molecular motors.
Magnus Bauer
Postdoc
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Magnus is exploring the design of kinases and protein-based inhibitors to decode and manipulate cellular logic.
Riti Biswas
Grad Student
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Riti is working on antibody design to accelerate biologic therapeutics R&D.
Yang Bo
Postdoc
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Yang is designing proteins for tissue-specific drug delivery.
Julia Bonzanini
Grad Student
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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.
Giona Cattaneo
Visitor
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Adam Chazin-Gray
Grad Student
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Wei Chen
Postdoc
wchen108
Wei is designing proteins to modulate gene expression
Anqi Chen
Postdoc
achen918
Anqi is interested in generating very specific proteases.
Ganyu Chen
Postdoc
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Elizaveta Chernova
Visitor
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Hojun Choi
Postdoc
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Hojun is interested in designing protein tools to control and sense endogenous signaling events.
Hojae Choi
Grad Student
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Rishabh Chowhan
Staff
rchowhan
Rishabh is designing de novo protein binders to modulate cell signaling for various medical applications.
Meehyun Jennifer Chun
Undergrad
mchun1
Jennifer is designing heterodimers that undergo conformational changes upon sensing phosphorylation to control downstream cellular functions
Jung Ho Chun
Postdoc
jhchun
Jungho is designing proteins that modulate immune cells to differentiate into specific cell stages and elicit desired immune responses.
Nathaniel Corley
Grad Student
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Nate is developing deep-learning methods for enzyme design and activity prediction
Alexis Courbet
Acting Instructor
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Alexis is a protein nanomachine designer and AI-based protein design researcher, exploring the field from first principles to translation.
Brian Coventry
Staff
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Brian is trying to understand the forces that stick proteins together
Cullen Demakis
Grad Student
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Cullen is designing protein motors that cycle between multiple well-defined states under power.
Kristin Ding
Undergrad
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Rose Duong
Undergrad
rduong1
Rose is designing proteins which undergo light-induced conformational change.
Helen Eisenach
Grad Student
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Nathan Ennist
Acting Instructor
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Nate is designing proteins for artificial photosynthesis with the long-term goal of producing renewable fuel.
Declan Evans
Postdoc
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Declan is designing enzymes for reactions not observed in Nature
Marc Exposit
Grad Student
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Samir Faruq
Undergrad
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Samir is designing mini-binders as potential therapeutics to combat infections associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Andrew Favor
Grad Student
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Andrew is developing deep learning models to design complexes containing both proteins and nucleic acids.
Timo Fluegel
Postdoc
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Jonathan Funk
Visitor
jfunk21
Jonathan is a visiting PhD student
Mariana Garcia Sanchez
Staff
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Jacob Gershon
Grad Student
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Matthias Gloegl
Postdoc
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Matthias is designing de novo antagonists and agonists for treatment of autoinflammatory disease and cancer.
Inna Goreshnik
Staff
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Nathan Forest Greenwood
Staff
forest77
Nathan is designing protein binders to target cancer and increase our understanding of biology.
William Grubbe
Postdoc
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Will is designing conditionally active, smart protein therapeutics.
Laura Guerrero
Grad Student
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Laura is designing peptide-MHC scaffolds to enable the understanding of peptide-specific disease associations.
Zhichun Guo
Postdoc
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Zhichun is developing deep learning methods to enhance the prediction of protein binding interactions
Ella Haefner
Grad Student
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Nikita Hanikel
Postdoc
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Nikita is working on the design of de novo metalloproteins
Stephanie Hanna
Grad Student
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Florence Hardy
Postdoc
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Florence is designing light activated enzymes using noncanonical amino acid photosensitisers.
Derrick Hicks
Acting Instructor
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Stephanie Hoang
Undergrad
shoang14
Shingo Honda
Postdoc
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Shingo is designing asymmetric protein assembly aided by a peptide scaffold.
Yang Hsia
Staff
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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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Andrew Hunt
Postdoc
ach94
Andrew designs enzymes and develops methods for collecting and using large amounts of data to improve design outcomes.
Abbas Idris
Grad Student
aidris1
Marouane Jaakik
Visitor
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Shruti Jain
Grad Student
sjain2
Joy Jang
Undergrad
yewonj
Jihun Jeung
Grad Student
jeung
Pengfei Ji
Visitor
jpf92
Indrek Kalvet
Staff
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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 purifying non-biological compounds of industrial interest
Chan Johng Kim
Postdoc
chanjkim
Chan is designing cytokine mimics to boost anti-cancer immunity with fewer side effects, activating only in tumor-specific environments
Paul Kim
Grad Student
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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.
Owen Henry Knight
Undergrad
ohknight
Rohith Krishna
Grad Student
rohith
Rohith is developing neural networks for structure prediction and design.
Aditya Krishnakumar
Grad Student
aditya20
Andrew Kubaney
Grad Student
akubaney
Paul Kwon
Grad Student
pkwon2
Paul is working on biomineralization and DNA binding.
Seulhoo Lee
Postdoc
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David Lee
Grad Student
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Michelin Lin
Staff
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Michelin is using transmembrane beta-barrel proteins as nanopores to advance DNA and protein sequencing technologies.
Caixuan Liu
Postdoc
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Caixuan is doing protein design of IDP
Yulai Liu
Postdoc
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Bingxu Liu
Postdoc
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Bingxu is working on transforming living system evolution logic from try-and-error to rational design.
Beau Lonnquist
Undergrad
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Beau is designing de novo transcription factors to regulate gene expression.
Peik Lund-Andersen
Grad Student
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Peik is designing redox enzymes and electron transport proteins for artificial photosynthesis
Meg Lunn-Halbert
Grad Student
mlunn1
Meg is a BPSD graduate student in the King and Baker labs. She is working to improve vaccine efficacy using de novo protein design.
Sagardip Majumder
Postdoc
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Sagardip is interested in engineering membrane proteins akin to natural ones and using protein design for nanopore applications.
Clara McCurdy
Grad Student
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Clara is designing proteins to edit the epigenome and stabilize blood vessels for therapeutics.
Ryan McHugh
Grad Student
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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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Ljubica is solubilizing native membrane proteins using de novo protein design and making transmembrane proteins from scratch
Joe Min
Grad Student
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Joe is interested in developing methods to redesign native enzymes to combat the effects of climate change.
Uma Mitchell
Undergrad
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Raktim Mitra
Postdoc
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Raktim is designing Nucleic Acid binding proteins.
Amir Motmaen
Grad Student
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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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Edin is working on de novo design of binders targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)
Molly Park
Undergrad
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Hazel Patro
Undergrad
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Kiana Pavlovic
Undergrad
kpav17
Robert Pecoraro
Grad Student
robpec
Robert is working on the computational design of proteins that bind specific DNA sequences.
Sam Pellock
Acting Instructor
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Sam is interested in designing enzymes that go fast.
Annika Philomin
Grad Student
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Annika is designing transmembrane beta barrel proteins for small molecule sensing by improving deep learning methods
Arvind Pillai
Postdoc
apillai1
Arvind is working on the design of allosterically switchable enzymes, with the aim of building useful protein sensors and nanomachines.
Yuliya Politanska
Grad Student
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Harley Pyles
Staff
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Harley is designing and characterizing proteins to control the formation of minerals
Jason Qian
Postdoc
jq01
enzyme design
Nathen Qing
Undergrad
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Xiangli Qu
Postdoc
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Xiangli is interested in designing protein binders to modulate the function of membrane proteins like GPCRs
Riley Quijano
Grad Student
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Riley is using both DNA-binder design and enzyme design to make de novo nucleases capable of cutting new recognition sites.
Robert Ragotte
Postdoc
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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
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Steph is engineering nanoparticle-compatible designs to facilitate efficient delivery of intracellularly-targeted therapeutic cargos
Isaac Sappington
Grad Student
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Isaac is developing methods to solve protein-protein interface design, enabling the creation of de novo protein therapeutics and cytokines
Amijai Saragovi
Postdoc
amijais
Most of the basic principles underlying protein derived biomineralization remain poorly understood. Using a large set of engineered protein
Christina Savvides
Grad Student
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Christina is interested in designing immunomodulators to treat autoimmune diseases.
Thomas Schlichthaerle
Postdoc
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Thomas is interested in designing super agonists to modulate cellular decision making.
DeJenae See
Grad Student
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Enisha Sehgal
Grad Student
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Enisha is designing DNA binding proteins to modulate gene expression and edit genomes.
Shajesh Sharma
Grad Student
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Shajesh is using protein design to optimize engineered metabolic pathways.
Will Sheffler
Staff
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Kathryn Shelley
Postdoc
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Kathryn is designing proteins that undergo light-driven conformational change.
Hao Shen
Postdoc
shenh2
Hao is designing self-assembling protein filament nanomaterials
Alexander Shida
Grad Student
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Hojeong Shin
Postdoc
hojshin
Hojeong is designing proteins to modulate immune cells in a tumor-specific manner
Ellen Shrock
Postdoc
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Ellen is studying determinants of immunogenicity.
Jeremiah Sims
Postdoc
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Jeremiah is an MSTP student at the UW, where he uses computational tools to make potent, broadly-neutralizing antivirals.
Abhishek Singh
Postdoc
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Abhishek is exploring how to create highly asymmetric protein assemblies with precise control over shape and size.
Zihao Song
Grad Student
zhsong
Zihao is interested in designing a synthetic proteome and an artificial cell
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
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Avi Swartz
Grad Student
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Avi is designing new photosystems for artificial photosynthesis
Mia Switzer
Undergrad
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Kirsten Thompson
Grad Student
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Kirsten is working on de novo protein and cellular cancer immunotherapies.
Tuscan Rock Thompson
Grad Student
tuscant
Marti Rae Tooley
Grad Student
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Marti is interested in modulating the immune response to vaccines through protein designed nanoparticles to generate long lasting response.
Long Tran
Grad Student
lhtran
Jiaobing Tu
Postdoc
jtu24
Dionne Vafeados
Staff
vafeados
Preetham Venkatesh
Grad Student
preetham
Preetham is designing sequence-specific proteases
Shunzhi Wang
Acting Instructor
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Xinru Wang
Acting Instructor
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Carl Wang
Postdoc
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Carl is designing enzymes to clean up forever chemicals
Yujia Wang
Postdoc
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Yujia is interested in designing enzymes to address challenges in biotechnology and organic synthesis.
Roni Weissman
Grad Student
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Roni is working on designing new nanocage modalities for delivery.
Jonas Wilhelm
Postdoc
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Jonas is designing enzymes that catalyze new-to-nature reactions
Max Witwer
Undergrad
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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
Postdoc
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Kejia is on method development for binding peptides/intrinsically disordered regions, and functionalizing the binders.
Jinwei Xu
Postdoc
jinweixu
Fanglei Xue
Visitor
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Fanglei is developing machine intelligence models to improve the success rate of protein design.
Tracy Yu
Postdoc
tracyy2
Tracy is working on developing bone-mimetic materials via hydroxyapatite mineralization proteins.
Jason Zhang
Postdoc
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Jason Zhang is designing molecular tools to understand and manipulate cancer cell signaling.
Olivia Zhu
Undergrad
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