Christian Lavados, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Bronx, New York

Department of Developmental and Molecular BiologyThesis Title: The Role of SLIRP and its Phosphorylation in the Regulation of Mitophagy (Article In Review - EMBO Reports)Co-Author: Insulin and leptin oscillations license food-entrained browning and metabolic flexibility (Cell Reports, 2024)

Bronx, New York

Developing/Implementing biochemical purifications of yeast- and bacterial-sourced transcription proteins, regulators, and other protein reagents needed in research. Analyzing properties of these molecules in biochemical assays,

San Francisco Bay Area

Additional responsibilities and achievements include purchasing and commissioning of an AKTA Pure 25 system as well as developing a robust, high-yielding process for producing sizable amounts of pure recombinant protein for proof of concept testing within the span of a few months.

San Francisco Bay Area

Seventh employee of the food biotechnology start-up, responsible for end-to-end process optimization. As part of a two-person team, I designed Clara's first baseline upstream process in 1.5 L DASGIP bioreactors as well as worked out the first process economic models in SuperPro Designer. On my own, I developed a purification platform and process that was.

Redwood City, California

Supported purification process development of early-stage antibodies. Main duties lied in benchscale purification development with occasional pilot-scale assistance. Worked on four projects that went on to clinical studies, two of which I personally developed high-yielding chromatography polishing steps for.

Berkeley, CA

Performing mutations in the U3 region of long terminal repeats (LTR) in lentiviral vectors and analyzing GFP expression.

- Synthesized and analyzed optimal oxidation conditions for tetrahydrofluorene intermediates in relation to the kinamycins.- Assembled alpha-pyridylketone library and began conducting dianion studies.

- Performed Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations of water and carbon dioxide adsorption in defect-free silicalites to find an optimum water adsorption structure. - Compared the SPC/E, TIP-4P, and TIP-5P water simulation models in a wide variety of zeolite structures to find a correlation between a structure’s geometric properties and its adsorption.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: First Year Representative (2019) PhD Orientation Committee (2020) Molecular Biology Tutor (2021-2023)Laboratory.

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: President of DCS Engineering Student group, Berkeley chapter of AIChE, Cal Judo Competition Team, UC Berkeley.