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
Stephanie Adaniya
Grad Student
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Green Ahn
Postdoc
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Green is designing proteins to modulate cellular processes involved in cancer.
Han Raut Altae-Tran
Postdoc
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Han is studying nucleic acids and design methods
Samaira Bakshi
Undergrad
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Samaira is designing de novo protein circuits
Pooja Bandawane
Grad Student
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Pooja is working on solubilizing membrane proteins for therapeutic and vaccine design, and designing a ph-switch.
Roman Barth
Postdoc
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Roman is designing novel enzymatic molecular motors.
Magnus Bauer
Acting Instructor
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Magnus is exploring the design of kinases and protein-based inhibitors to decode and manipulate cellular logic.
Guillaume Belissent
Visitor
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Siddharth Betala
Grad Student
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Siddharth is a CSE student working on developing deep learning methods for accelerated discovery and design of biomolecules.
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.
Rafi Brent
Grad Student
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Rafi is working on deep learning methods for biomolecular structure prediction and design.
Saket Budhia
Grad Student
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Saket is developing deep learning methods for protein structure prediction and design.
Wei Chen
Postdoc
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Wei is designing proteins to modulate gene expression
Jie Chen
Grad Student
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Yuhuan Chen
Grad Student
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Anqi Chen
Postdoc
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Anqi is interested in generating very specific proteases.
Wenzhe Chen
Postdoc
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Ganyu Chen
Postdoc
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Ganyu is designing new protein motors.
Hojae Choi
Grad Student
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Hojae is working on sequence-specific protease design
Juyoung Choi
Grad Student
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Juyoung is designing protein nanomachines — including dynamic protein fiber and protein computer — powered by light-driven protein motors.
Jungho Chun
Postdoc
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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 all-atom protein structure prediction and design, with an emphasis on enzymes
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
Caleb Cox
Postdoc
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Caleb is interested in designing new enzymes for DNA editing.
Kate Crawford
Postdoc
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Kate is developing modular enzymes to produce new-to-nature products.
Wenzhao Dai
Postdoc
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Elliot Delfosse
Grad Student
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Prisha Dhawan
Undergrad
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Aneesha Donakonda
Undergrad
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Helen Eisenach
Grad Student
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Helen is developing deep learning-based design methods for self-assembling symmetric nanomaterials.
Sayo Eweje
Visitor
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Sayo is designing de novo cytokines for hematopoietic stem cell modulation.
Marc Exposit
Postdoc
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Marc is designing de novo cytokines
Timo Fluegel
Postdoc
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Timo is designing acyltransferases to synthesize amide and ester bonds.
Maximilian Gantz
Postdoc
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Max is designing enzymes for sustainable chemistry and CO2 fixation
Shilong Gao
Postdoc
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Shilong is designing proteins to extend the chemical space accessible to biology.
Antara Garai
Staff
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Antara is designing peptide-guided protein assemblies with control over size and shape.
Mariana Garcia Sanchez
Staff
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Matthias Gloegl
Acting Instructor
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Matthias is designing de novo antagonists and agonists for treatment of autoinflammatory disease and cancer.
Rishabh Goenka
Undergrad
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Inna Goreshnik
Staff
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Shivansh Goyal
Postdoc
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William Grubbe
Postdoc
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Will is designing cooperative protein systems, focusing on cytokine immunotherapies.
Laura Guerrero
Grad Student
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Laura is designing peptide-MHC scaffolds to enable the understanding of peptide-specific disease associations.
Manish Gupta
Visitor
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Ella Haefner
Grad Student
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Ella is designing proteins to modulate protein homeostasis.
Nikita Hanikel
Postdoc
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Nikita is working on the design of de novo metalloproteins
Xi He
Grad Student
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Hirbod Heidari
Postdoc
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Hirbod is working on design of novel metal-binding proteins with practical applications.
Ricardo Heinzmann
Visitor
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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).
Evelyn Huddy
Staff
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Evie is making biomineral compartments and proteins that can be assembled sequentially
Abbas Idris
Grad Student
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I design programmable assembly and disassembly of protein nanoparticles
Jihun Jeung
Grad Student
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Jihun is interested in designing metalloenzymes and developing deep learning-based computational tools.
Shirley Ji
Grad Student
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Indrek Kalvet
Staff
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Indrek is designing new enzymes based on catalytic cofactor binding.
Max Kazman
Grad Student
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Sebastian Kenny
Postdoc
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Kenny is designing minibinder proteins to perform targeted protein degradation for novel therapeutic applications.
Ryan Kibler
Postdoc
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Ryan is designing proteins for purifying non-biological compounds of industrial interest
Chan Johng Kim
Acting Instructor
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Chan is designing cytokine mimics to boost anti-cancer immunity with fewer side effects, activating only in tumor-specific environments
David Kim
Staff
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Donghyo Kim
Postdoc
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Donghyo is designing de novo enzymes using deep learning methods.
Brianne King
Postdoc
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Brianne is designing enzymes for small molecule catalysis and bioremediation.
Yakov Kipnis
Staff
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Yakov is working on computational enzyme design.
Jeremy Koob
Postdoc
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I am engineering new-to-nature enzymes to tackle urgent environmental crises – currently focused on plastic upcycling.
Volodymyr Korkhov
Visitor
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Ksenia Krasileva
Visitor
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Rohith Krishna
Postdoc
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Rohith is developing neural networks for structure prediction and design.
Aditya Krishnakumar
Grad Student
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Aditya is designing de novo cytokines for autoimmune therapies
Andrew Kubaney
Grad Student
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Andrew is developing deep learning models for RNA sequence design and protein-DNA specificity prediction.
Riko Kusumi
Visitor
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Seulhoo Lee
Postdoc
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Seulhoo is developing metalloenzymes, including for plastic degradation.
David Lee
Grad Student
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David is designing a modular protein toolkit to generate specific cell signaling outcomes.
Drew Levitt
Grad Student
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Yanjing Li
Grad Student
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Jia Liang
Grad Student
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Veeksha Lingampalli
Undergrad
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Veeksha is designing de novo protein circuits.
Caixuan Liu
Postdoc
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Caixuan is designing proteins that bind to intrinsically disordered peptide targets.
Bingxu Liu
Postdoc
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Bingxu is working on transforming living system evolution logic from try-and-error to rational design.
Edward Lopatto
Postdoc
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Edward is designing proteins to treat bacterial infections
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
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Meg is a BPSD graduate student in the King and Baker labs. She is working to improve vaccine efficacy using de novo protein design.
Janani Maheswaran
Undergrad
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Janani is working on redesigning cytokines of the IL-12 family
David Mai
Postdoc
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David is interested in tools to direct cell state and function.
Jishnu Manglam
Grad Student
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Jishnu works on enzyme design
Nora McNamara-Bordewick
Grad Student
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Nora is working on using protein design to create new therapeutics that target "undruggable" proteins and allow for new delivery modalities
Amelie Medeiros
Undergrad
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Amelie is designing de novo enzymes to degrade plastic waste.
Ljubica Mihaljevic
Postdoc
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Lj extracts intact native proteins from membranes and precisely reinserts membrane proteins made from scratch using de novo protein design
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.
Stanislav Moroz
Grad Student
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Aiko Muraishi
Grad Student
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Aiko is developing all-atom generative models for symmetric enzyme designs.
Edin Muratspahic
Postdoc
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Edin is working on de novo design of binders targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)
Keisuke Nagao
Postdoc
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Kei is interested in bridging materials science and biology.
Annika Philomin
Grad Student
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Annika is developing and applying machine learning methods for transmembrane beta barrel design.
Yuliya Politanska
Grad Student
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Yuliya is working on the computational design of DNA binding proteins with a goal of developing de novo transcription factors.
Harley Pyles
Staff
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Harley is designing and characterizing proteins to control the formation of minerals
Jason Qian
Postdoc
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enzyme design
Tingli Qian
Grad Student
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Nathen Qing
Undergrad
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Nathen is trying to design de-novo photosynthetic proteins.
Keming Qiu
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.
Shawn Ralyn
Grad Student
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Shawn is working on de novo enzyme design for sustainable chemical bioproduction
Siya Reddy
Undergrad
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Nicole Roullier
Staff
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Nicole is optimizing yeast workflows to better identify useful de novo proteins
Antonia Ruder
Visitor
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Je-Kyung Ryu
Visitor
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Je-Kyung Ryu is a professor at Seoul National University and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Baker lab, working on structural dynamics.
Shayan Sadre
Grad Student
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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
Christina Savvides
Grad Student
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Christina is interested in designing immunomodulators to treat autoimmune diseases.
Tiana Schantz
Undergrad
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Tiana is helping with Tau and pTau binder-protease design/optimization
DeJenae See
Grad Student
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DeJenae works on antibody and nanobody design.
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 designing de novo proteins that bind and sense small molecules
Kathryn Shelley
Postdoc
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Kathryn is designing proteins that undergo light-driven conformational change.
Hao Shen
Postdoc
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Hao is designing self-assembling protein filament nanomaterials
Alexander Shida
Grad Student
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Alex is combining conformational dynamics with enzyme design
Hojeong Shin
Postdoc
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Hojeong is designing proteins to modulate immune cells in a tumor-specific manner
Shirin Shivaei
Postdoc
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Ellen Shrock
Postdoc
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Ellen is studying determinants of immunogenicity.
Miriam Silverstein
Undergrad
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Miriam is designing proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences to develop therapies against neurodegenerative diseases.
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
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Zihao is interested in designing a synthetic proteome and an artificial cell
Chintan Soni
Postdoc
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Ria Sonigra
Grad Student
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Ria is working on designing transmembrane proteins for biosensing applications
Belen Sotomayor
Postdoc
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Belen is working on the de novo design of carbohydrate-active enzymes for therapeutic applications
Chase Suiter
Postdoc
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Chase is developing methods for high-throughput functional characterization of de novo proteins.
Eric Sun
Grad Student
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Eric is developing and testing methods for antibody design.
Avi Swartz
Grad Student
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Avi is designing new photosystems for artificial photosynthesis
Mia Switzer
Staff
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Tabitha Tcheau
Grad Student
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Kirsten Thompson
Grad Student
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Kirsten is working on protein circuits for cancer immunotherapies.
Tuscan Rock Thompson
Grad Student
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Tuscan is developing design methods for noncanonical peptides.
Long Tran
Grad Student
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Eva Trapido
Undergrad
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Dionne Vafeados
Staff
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Preetham Venkatesh
Postdoc
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Preetham is designing sequence-specific proteases
Gonzalo Villegas Rodriguez
Postdoc
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Gonzalo is working on enzyme design
Kelly Wang
Grad Student
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Xingzao Wang
Postdoc
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Carl Wang
Postdoc
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Carl is designing enzymes to clean up forever chemicals
Yujia Wang
Acting Instructor
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Yujia is interested in designing enzymes to address challenges in biotechnology and organic synthesis.
Weijin Wang
Postdoc
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Weijin is designing enzymes with abiotic activities
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
Gde Bimananda Mahardika Wisna
Postdoc
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Bima is interested in designing de novo oligomeric protein motors fueled by enzymatic reactions.
Max Witwer
Grad Student
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Seth Woodbury
Grad Student
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Seth is designing de novo (metallo)enzymes from quantum chemistry 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.
Annie Wu
Undergrad
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Selena Xu
Undergrad
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Chuanyun Xu
Postdoc
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Chuanyun is designing modular transmembrane components for sensing, manipulating, and transporting.
Avery Yang
Grad Student
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Avery is designing C-C bond-forming enzymes
Tracy Yu
Postdoc
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Tracy is working on developing bone-mimetic materials via hydroxyapatite mineralization proteins.
Yuyang Zhang
Visitor
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Jingyi Zhu
Postdoc
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Jingyi is designing ligand-binding proteins for fluorescent biosensors
Olivia Zhu
Undergrad
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