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Pasadena, Ca, Us

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Established and leads wet laboratory for AI augmented directed evolution of proteins• Engineers potent neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2• Develops high-throughput experiments for training proprietary AI platform in antibody developability• Trains and supervises postdoctoral researchers

Riverside, Ca, Us

• Lead a research program aimed at optimizing complex protein production• Taught courses on Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Molecular Bioengineering• Engineered eukaryotes to improve production of biomaterials, enzymes, and biopharmaceuticals• Collected and analyzes Ribo-seq and long- and short-read RNA-seq data• Developed optogenetic and other inducible controls over host protein metabolism• Evolved molecular chaperones and chaperone networks• Supervised 4 Ph.D. students, 2 M.S. students

Stanford, Ca, Us

• NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship• Globally characterized early steps of protein secretion within yeast• Developed novel subcellular RNA-seq assays to capture distinct steps in protein synthesis• Developed Ribo-seq guided in vitro translation assays using yeast extract• Trained Ph.D. students in X-ray crystallography and successfully competed for beam time at SSRL• Characterized gene expression and translational elongation in a yeast model of Parkinson's disease• Lead author on publication in Nature; Co-author on 2 other publications

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Established prevailing structural model of a complex involved in membrane protein trafficking• Determined the first X-ray crystal and solution NMR structures of Get3, Get4, Get5, and Sgt2• Characterized protein complexes with ITC, SPR, SEC-MALS, SAXS, and yeast two-hybrid assays• Cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized the membrane protein SecDF• Lead author on 6 publications; Co-author on 4 other publications

La Jolla, California, Us

• Crystallized oxygen-sensitive enzymes and used X-ray diffraction to determine structure• Collected MAD diffraction data at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory• Lead author on 2 publications; Co-author on 2 other publications

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biochemistry And Molecular Biophysics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Molecular Biology