Alumni

Postdocs

Ph.D. Students

  • Jinrong Ma, Ph.D. Molecular Engineering and Sciences 2022. Designing hierarchical organic-inorganic hybrid materials with high-information-content building blocks. Sanofi.
  • Brittney Hellner, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2019. Correlating solid-binding peptide structure with biomimetic function. Merck.
  • Jessica Soto-Rodríguez, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2018. Solid-binding peptides: Applications in affinity protein purification and bioprotonic devices. TechSource.
  • Brian Swift, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2016. Engineering solid-binding proteins for the biofabrication of environmentally friendly multi-functional quantum dots. Zoetis.
  • Weiran Zhang, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2015. Signal peptide and chaperone engineering for secretion and excretion in Escherichia coli. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
  • James Matthaei, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2015. Two-dimensional protein arrays: de novo design and applications. Sonoma Biotherapeutics.
  • Brandon Coyle, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2014. Solid-binding proteins for modification of inorganic substrates. Gilead Sciences.
  • Brent Nannenga, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2011. Improving the expression of secretory and membrane proteins in Escherichia coli through folding pathway engineering. Arizona State University.
  • Carolynn Grosh, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2011 (co-advised with D.T. Schwartz). Translating designer proteins to nanoparticle manufacturing. Broadcom, Inc.
  • Sathana Kitayaporn, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2011(co-advised with D.T. Schwartz). Integrating top-down and bottom-up nanomanufacturing: Design of nucleation and growth processes from electrolytes. BASF.
  • Jeremy Horst, Ph.D. Oral Biology 2010 (co-advised with R. Samudrala). Modeling mechanisms of mammalian mineralization. UCSF.
  • Mirna Mujacic, Ph.D. Bioengineering 2006. “Characterization of regulation and expression patterns of Escherichia coli Hsp31 protein”. GentiBio.
  • Daniel Allred, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2006. (co-advised with D.T. Schwartz). “Electrochemical nanomoulding through proteins”. IEH Inc.
  • Elyse Saphiro, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2005. Optimizing Escherichia coli for the detection of antimicrobial compounds. Biofidelity.
  • I-Ting Chow, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2005. “Functional study of ClpB95 and ClpB80, the alternative translation products of the E. coli clpB transcript. Adaptive Biotechnologies.
  • Alisson Bianchi, Ph.D. Bioengineering 1999. Characterization and applications of Escherichia coli stress promoters-LacZ Fusions. Lyell Immunopharma.
  • Kerri Cooper, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 1998. Expression, degradation and applications of TolA-b-lactamase fusion proteins. Private practice.
  • Jeffrey G. Thomas, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 1998. Molecular chaperones and the folding of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli. Caris Life Sciences.
  • Jess Vasina, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 1997. Expression of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli under the transcriptional control of the cold-shock inducible cspA promoter. Huue.

M.S. Students

  • Julia Boese, M.S. ChE 2020. Exploiting the interactions of solid-binding proteins with silica to form colloidal assemblies. Footprint.
  • Yundi Zhao, M.S. ChE 2019. Stimuli-responsive assembly of nanoparticles with solid binding proteins. Seagen.
  • Sijia (Lena) Xiao, M.S. ChE 2019 (co-advised with D.A.C. Beck). Machine learning of amino acid composition models for protein redesign. Amazon.
  • Alexander Thomas, M.S. ChE 2018. Two-dimensional architectures as a platform technology. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
  • Sonja Glaser Dunakey, M.S. ChE 2018. Selective labeling of single-walled carbon nanotubes using solid binding proteins. GKN Aerospace.
  • Chiawei (Wayne) Hsu, M.S. ChE 2017. Mineralization of titania with sfGFP-Car9 variants. Garena.
  • Kannan Aravagiri, M.S. ChE 2016. Affinity tag excision strategies for Car9-tagged proteins. St. George’s University Medical School.
  • Wenlan (Lena) Yang, M.S. ChE 2016. Chemically-addressable protein entrapment in silica sol-gels. Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
  • Cristina Nelson, M.S. ChE 2013. Improving YidC function in Escherichia coli. US Coast Guard.
  • David Chiu, M.S. ChE 2010. Vaccinating adjuvant core antigen shell nanoparticles. Seattle Genetics.
  • Kevin Dornfeld, M.S. ChE 2004. Trigger factor and the folding of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli. Sound Biologics.
  • Yan Brodsky, M.S. ChE 2002. Expression and purification of E. coli Hsp33 and Hsp31. Nexgenia.
  • Danielle Amatore, M.S. ChE 2001. Transposon mutagenesis of Escherichia coli GroEL. Intel.
  • Stephanie Richardson, M.S. ChE 2000. Optimizing disulfide bond formation in recombinant proteins synthesized in the cytoplasm of E. coli. Environmental Management.
  • Amanda Ayling, M.S. ChE 1999. Influence of the GroE molecular chaperone machine on the in vitro folding of Escherichia coli b-galactosidase. Seattle Waldorf High School.
  • Jeff Shearstone, M.S. ChE 1999. Biochemical characterization of the E. coli small heat-shock proteins IbpA and IbpB. Syros Pharmaceuticals.
  • Eugene Wan, M.S. ChE 1997. Increasing recombinant protein excretion in Escherichia coli trough overproduction of the third topological domain of the TolA trans- envelope protein. University of Washington Medical Center.
  • Eleonor Schneider, M.S. ChE 1995. Factors affecting the aggregation of recombinant human SPARC (Osteonectin, BM-40) in the Cytoplasm of Escherichia coli. Amgen.
  • Pascale Roux, M.S. ChE 1995. Interactions between b-lactamase mutants and two molecular chaperones, GroEL and SecB. Sanofi.