Current Group Members
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Frances H. Arnold | Principal Investigator | |
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Claire Bedbrook | Graduate Student (BE) | |
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Christina Boville | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Oliver Brandenberg | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Andrew Buller | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Sabine Brinkmann-Chen | Laboratory Manager | |
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Kai Chen | Graduate Student (Chem) | |
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Inha Cho | Graduate Student (BMB) | |
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Nathaniel Goldberg | Graduate Student (Chem) | |
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Stephan Hammer | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Kari Hernandez | Graduate Student (ChE) | |
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Xiongyi Huang | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Jennifer Kan | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Anders Knight | Graduate Student (BE) | |
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Grzegorz Kubik | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Rusty Lewis | Graduate Student (BE) | |
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Austin Rice | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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David Romney | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Ella Watkins | Graduate Student (BE) | |
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Zachary Wu | Graduate Student (ChE) | |
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Kevin Yang | Graduate Student (ChE) | |
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Ruijie (Kelly) Zhang | Graduate Student (Chem) |
Group Alumni
Murat Acar, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale Systems Biology Institute Yale University PO Box 27391 West Haven, CT 06516-7391 murat.acar AT yale.edu |
Miguel Alcalde, Ph.D. |
Staff Scientist Applied Biocatalysis Group Department of Biocatalysis Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry, CSIC Campus Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid, Spain malcalde AT icp.csic.es |
Roee Amit, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel 32000 roeeamit AT technion.ac.il |
Geethani Bandara, Ph.D. |
Laboratory of Allergic Diseases NIAID, NIH Building 10, Room 11C209 10 Center Drive, MSC1881 Bethesda, MD 20892-1881 bandarag AT niaid.nih.gov |
Armin Baumschlager |
ETH Zurich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering Control Theory and Systems Biology Group Mattenstrasse 26 4058 Basel, Switzerland armin.baumschlager AT bsse.ethz |
Holger Berk, Ph.D. |
Institute of Organic Chemistry Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Marie-Curie-Strasse 11, N160-305 60439 Frankfurt, Germany berk AT nmr.uni-frankfurt.de |
Rita Bernhardt, Ph.D. |
Professor Universitat des Saarlandes FR 8.8 - Biochemie Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbrucken, Germany ritabern AT mx.uni-saarland.de |
Jesse Bloom, Ph.D. |
Principal Investigator Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center MS A3-015 1100 Fairview Avenue N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 jbloom AT fredhutch.org |
Ardemis Boghossian, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology (LNB) Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland ardemis.boghossian AT epfl.ch |
Katie Brenner, Ph.D. |
Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, Madison 433 Babcock Drive Madison, WI 53706 ktbrenner AT gmail.com |
Eric Brustad, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Campus Box 3290 Caudill and Kenan Laboratories The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290 brustad AT email.unc.edu |
Jason Chen, Ph.D. |
Chief Scientific Officer |
Kevin Chen, Ph.D. |
Rugen Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Research and Development Room 2026-2027 NO. 555 Bldg 2, Dongchuan Rd. No. 5 Shangdi Kaituo Road Shanghai 200241 China kevin.chen AT rugenpharma.com |
Mike Chen, Ph.D. |
Scientist Provivi, Inc. 1701 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
Linda Chio |
Grad Student (August 2015) U.C. Berkeley Chiolinda.chio0224 AT gmail.com |
Helen Chuang |
Systems Engineer Northrop Gumman Azusa, CA hchuang AT gmail.com |
Patrick C. Cirino, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of Houston S337 Engineering, Building 1 Houston, TX 77204-4004 pccirino AT uh.edu |
Cynthia H. Collins, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 ccollins AT rpi.edu |
Pradeep K. Dhal, Ph.D. |
R&D Senior Director Sanofi Global R&D pradeep.dhal AT sanofi.com |
Yousong Ding, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor College of Pharmacy University of Florida Medical Science Building, P6-27 P.O. Box 100484, Gainesville FL 32610 yding AT cop.ufl.edu |
Sheel Dodani, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell Road Richardson, TX 75080 sheel.dodani AT utdallas.edu |
Michael Dougherty, Ph.D. |
Project Scientist SETI Institute Mountain View, CA |
D. Allan Drummond, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Chicago GCIS W234 929 E. 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 dadrummond AT uchicago.edu |
Jeffrey Endelman, Ph.D. |
WPVGA Professor of Plant Breeding Department of Horticulture University of Wisconsin 1575 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 endelman AT wisc.edu |
Edgardo Farinas, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, NJ 07102 edgardo AT njit.edu |
Rudi Fasan, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry University of Rochester 409 Hutchinson Hall Rochester, NY 14627 fasan AT chem.rochester.edu |
Tilman Flock |
PhD MRC Fellow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Theoretical and Computational Biology Madan Babu Group - Systems Biology Hills Road Cambridge, CB2 0QH, United Kingdom tilman.flock AT mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk |
Radu Georgescu |
Sr. Associate Scientist Amgen Inc. One Amgen Center Drive Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799 radug AT amgen.com |
Anne Gershenson |
Research Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1230 Lederle Graduate Research Tower University of Massachusetts at Amherst 710 N. Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01030 gershenson AT biochem.umass.edu |
Lori Giver, Ph.D. |
Vice President Biological Engineering Calysta Energy 1140 O'BrienDrive Menlo Park, CA 94025 |
Anton Glieder, Ph.D. |
Professor Technical University of Graz Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Petersgasse 12 A-8010 Graz, Austria a.glieder AT tugraz.at CEO & CSO Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH) Petersgasse 14 A-8010 Graz, Austria anton.glieder AT acib.at |
Zhibin Guan, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Chemistry 5042D FRH University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2025 zguan AT uci.edu |
Adam Hartwick, Ph.D. | Engineer ATO Pilot Plant Amgen, Inc. One Amgen Center Drive, M/S 30-W-1-A Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 ahartwic AT amgen.com |
Eric L. Haseltine, Ph.D. |
Research Scientist Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 130 Waverly Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Eric_Haseltine AT vrtx.com |
Pete Heinzelman, Ph.D. |
Assistant Project Scientist Drug Discovery Laboratory UCLA Department of Neurobiology 710 Westwood Plaza, Reed Building - Room 3138 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769 pheinzelman AT mednet.ucla.edu |
Todd Hyster, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Room 190 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 thyster AT princeton.edu |
John Joern, Ph.D. |
Scientist Meso-scale Discovery 9238 Gaither Road Gaithersburg, MD 20877 jjoern AT meso-scale.com |
Sang Taek Jung, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Bio and Nano Chemistry Kookmin University Jeongneung-ro 77, Seongbuk-gu Seoul 136-702, Korea sjung AT kookmin.ac.kr |
Marvin Kadisch, M.Sc. |
Ph.D. Student TU Dortmund Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Emil-Figge-Strasse 66 44227 Dortmund, Germany marvin.kadisch AT bci.tu-dortmund.de |
James Kellis, Ph.D. |
Senior Scientist Genencor International, Inc. 925 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 jkellis AT genencor.com |
Daniel Koch, Ph.D. |
Head, Strain Development Braskem Brazil |
Russell Komor, Ph.D. |
Scientist Synthetic Genomics, Inc. rkomor AT gmail.com |
Takafumi Kubo |
Research Scientist GSC Catalyst Technology Research Nippon Shokubai Company, Ltd. 5-8 Nishi Otabi-cho, Suita Osaka 564-8512, Japan takafumi_kubo AT shokubai.co.jp |
Lutz Kummer |
Graduate Student Department of Biochemistry University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich, Switzerland l.kummer AT bioc.unizh.ch |
Marco Landwehr, Ph.D. |
Research Administration/ Site Manager SunGene GmbH - A BASF Plant Science Company Gatersleben D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany marco.landwehr AT sungene.de |
Ryan Lauchli, Ph.D. |
Research Investigator The DuPont Company Experimental Station E228/310A PO Box 80328 Wilmington, DE 19880 ryan.mark.lauchli AT dupont.com |
Jared C. Lewis, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry University of Chicago Searle Chemistry Laboratory 5735 S. Ellis Ave., SCL 302 Chicago, IL 60637 jaredlewis AT uchicago.edu |
Yougen Li, Ph.D. |
Senior Research Scientist DuPont Central Research & Development Experimental Station Building 228/310A Route 141 & Henry Clay Road Wilmington, DE 19880 yougenli AT gmail.com |
Zhanglin Lin, Ph.D. |
MOE Changjiang Scholars Professor Dean, School of Biology and Biological Engineering South China University of Technology University Park, Guangdong 510006, China zhanglinlin AT scut.edu.cn |
Sanku Mallik, Ph.D. | Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences North Dakota State University Sudro Hall, Room: 35A Department 2665 P.O. Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 Sanku.Mallik AT ndsu.edu |
Carlos A. Martinez, Ph.D. |
Associate Research Fellow Biocatalysis Center of Emphasis Pfizer Global Research and Development 558 Eastern Point Road Groton, CT 06340 carlos.martinez6 AT pfizer.com |
Oliver May, Ph.D. |
Director, Research & Development DSM Bio-based Products and Services Mauritslaan 49 6129 El Urmond The Netherlands oliver.may AT DSM.com |
Kimberly Mayer,
Ph.D., M.B.A. |
Executive Director Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Center for Bioengineering California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd., MC 210-41 Pasadena, CA 91125 kimberly AT cheme.caltech.edu |
John McIntosh, Ph.D. |
Senior Scientist |
Scott McIsaac, Ph.D. |
Staff Scientist |
Peter Meinhold, Ph.D. |
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer |
Michelle M. Meyer, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Biology Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 m.meyer AT bc.edu |
Florence Mingardon, Ph.D. | TOTAL New Energies USA, Inc. |
Yuuichi Mitsuda, Ph.D. | Associate Senior Scientist Shionogi and Company, Ltd. 1-1 Futaba-cho, 3-chome, Toyonaka Osaka 561-0825, Japan yuuichi.mitsuda AT shionogi.co.jp |
Kentaro Miyazaki, Ph.D. |
Group Leader National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 2-17-2-1, Tsukisamu-higashi Sapporo 062-8517, Japan miyazaki-kentaro AT aist.go.jp |
Vincent M. Monnier, M.D. |
Professor of Pathology and
Biochemistry Institute of Pathology Case Western Reserve University 2103 Cornell Road Cleveland, OH 44106-7288 |
Jeffrey C. Moore, Ph.D. |
Senior Investigator, Process Research Merck and Company, Inc. P.O. Box 2000, RY800-C364 Rahway, NJ 07065 jeffrey_moore AT merck.com |
Birgit Morawski, Ph.D. |
European Patent Attorney Patentanwälte Maikowski & Ninnemann European Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Berlin Kurfürstendamm 54-55 D-10707 Berlin, Germany office AT maikowski-ninnemann.com |
Kingman Ng, Ph.D. |
Research Scientist Novartis kingman.ng AT novartis.com |
Chris Otey, Ph.D. |
Senior Director - Life Science Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. 700 Technology Square Suite 302 Cambridge, MA 02139 cotey AT are.com |
Daniel W. Pack, Ph.D. |
Professor and Ashland Inc. Chair in Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Kentucky Biological Pharmaceutical Bldg. Room 467 789 South Limestone Lexington, KY 40536-0596 dan.pack AT uky.edu |
Ioanna P. Petrounia, Ph.D. | Senior Scientist Johnson & Johnson PRD Welsh & McKean Roads Spring House, PA 19477 ipetroun AT its.jnj.comoanna |
Sean Plunkett,
Ph.D. |
Director of
Delivery Systems Alkermes Inc. 88 Sidney Street Cambridge, MA 02139 sean.plunkett AT alkermes.com |
Kersten Rabe, Ph.D. | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Biologische Grenzflachen 1 (IBG 1) Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 Gebaude 601, Raum 318 D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen kersten.rabe AT kit.edu |
Hans Renata, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute, Florida 130 Scripps Way Jupiter, FL 33458 hrenata AT scripps.edu |
Andrea Rentmeister, Ph.D. |
Professor Institut für Biochemie Universität Münster Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 2 48149 Münster a.rentmeister AT uni-muenster.de |
Philip Romero, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 5531-J Boelter Hall University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592 philromero AT ucla.edu |
Takeshi Sakamoto, Ph.D. |
Research Associate Life-Science Laboratory Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 1000 Kamoshidacho Aoba-ku Yokohama, 227-8502 Japan takeshi-sakamoto AT amed.go.jp |
Darryl Y. Sasaki, Ph.D. |
Sandia National Laboratories, California MS 9292 Livermore, CA 94551-9292 dysasak AT sandia.gov |
Andrew Sawayama, Ph.D. | Scientist Carmot Therapeutics, Inc. 409 Illinois Street San Francisco, CA 94114 asawayama AT carmot.us |
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota 140 Gortner Laboratory 1479 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 schmi232 AT umn.edu |
Sebastian Schoof, Ph.D. |
BASF SE Crop Protection APD/EF Metabolism and Dissipation 67117 Limburgerhof Germany ses10 AT gmx.de |
Ulrich Schwaneberg, Ph.D. |
Head, Institute of Biotechnology Professor of Biochemical Engineering RWTHAachen University Worringerweg 1 52074 Aachen Germany u.schwaneberg AT biotec.rwth-aachen.de |
Deborah Shnek, Ph.D. |
Consultant 852 198th Place SE Sammamish, WA 98075 dshnek AT alum.mit.edu |
Volker Sieber, Ph.D. |
Professor and Chair Chemistry of Biogenic Resources Technische Universität München Schulgasse 16 D-94315 Straubing, Germany e.aichnerwz-straubing.de |
Hadley Sikes, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 sikes AT mit.edu |
Jonathan (Joff) Silberg, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Biochemistry and Cell Biology Rice University Houston, TX 77251 joff AT rice.edu |
Matthew Smith, Ph.D. |
Program Director Insight Data Science Mountain View, CA |
Christopher Snow , Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering 1370 Campus Delivery Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1370 christopher.snow AT colostate.edu |
Susanne Striegler, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 susanne.striegler AT uark.edu |
Fei Sun, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology kefsun AT ust.hk |
Katsuyuki Takahashi |
Senior Researcher Biocatalysis Team Technical Center Mitsui Chemicals Asia Pacific, Ltd. #06-08/-11 50 Science Park Road Singapore Science Park II katsuyuki.takahashi AT mitsui-chem.co.jp |
Todd Thorsen, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 3-246 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 thorsen AT mit.edu |
Alex Tobias, Ph.D. |
Science Manager Meso Scale Diagnostics Gaithersburg, MD 20877 avtobias83 AT gmail.com |
Robert (Bob) Todd, Ph.D. |
Vice President, Modeling and Simulation KBI Biopharma 2500 Central Avenue Boulder, CO rtodd AT kbibiopharma.com |
Cara Tracewell, Ph.D. |
Scientist Genomatica San Diego, CA |
Devin Trudeau, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biological Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel devintrudeau AT gmail.com |
Andrew K. Udit, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry Norris Hall Occidental College 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041 udit AT oxy.edu |
Daisuke Umeno, Ph.D. |
Professor, Department of Applied
Chemistry and Biotechnology Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-machi, Inage-Ku Chiba, Japan 263-8522 umeno AT faculty.chiba-u.jp |
Francisco
Valles, B.S. |
Research
Associate Genentech Inc. 1 DNA Way Mail Stop 32 South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990 cisco AT gene.com |
Christopher Voigt, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Biology Center 500 Technology Square NE47-277 Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Emily Wen |
Merck Research Laboratory WP 17-301 West Point PA 19486 emily_wen AT merck.com |
Patrick Wintrode, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Maryland School of Pharmacy 20 North Pine Street Baltimore, MD 21201 pwintrod AT rx.umaryland.edu |
Tuck Seng Wong, Ph.D. |
Lecturer ChELSI Institute Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences University of Sheffield Sir Robert Hadfield Building Mappin Street Sheffield S1 3JD United Kingdom T.Wong AT sheffield.ac.uk |
Gerald E. Wuenschell, Ph.D. | Staff Scientist, Radiation Biology Manager, Translational Proteomics Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope 1500 E. Duarte Road Duarte, CA 91010 gwuenschell AT coh.org |
Makoto Yagasaki, Ph.D. |
Research Manager Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. Tokyo Research Laboratories 3-6-6, Asahimachi, Machidashi, Tokyo, Japan 194-8533 makoto.yagasaki AT kyowa-kirin.co.jp Waseda University Dept. of Applied Chemistry 3-4-1, Ookubo, Shinjukuku Tokyo, Japan 169-8555 |
Yohei Yokobayashi, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California, Davis 451 Health Sciences Drive, GBSF 3315 Davis, CA 95616 yoko AT ucdavis.edu |
Lingchong You, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University 136 Hudson Hall 3000 Science Drive Campus Box 90281 Durham, NC 27708 you AT duke.edu |
Ji-Hu Zhang, Ph.D. |
Fellow Novartis Pharmaceuticals Company One Health Plaza East Hanover, NJ 07936 ji-hu.zhang AT pharma.novartis.com |
Huimin Zhao, Ph.D. |
Centennial Endowed Chair Professor Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 215 Roger Adams Laboratory, Box C3 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 600 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 zhao5 AT illinois.edu |