Prof. Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
Biochemistry Molecular Biology & Biophysics
274 Gortner Lab
1479 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-6106
612-625-5782
schmi232@umn.edu
140 Gortner Labs
1479 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-6106
612-624-6774
612-625-5780 FAX
bti@umn.edu
Our Alumni Network, are a key resource for career insights and planning, and for professional development and networking. Our alumni regularly return to share their insight in different areas, including their experiences in career development and in balancing career and family. In our last winter retreat at the Itasca Biological Station, two alumni (Katie and Aaron Wlaschin) and their young children spent one weekend with our trainees.
The successes of our training grant alumni in their academic and industrial positions serve as the best examples for potential career trajectories in biotechnology for our current trainees. Importantly, our program has created a large appreciative and supportive group of alumni. Every alumnus who has received a request to speak at our training grant Alumni Symposium responded favorably. Our past trainees, of whom the vast majority joined the industrial sector, serve as an informal job referral group for our graduating trainees; our program routinely receives information on entry-level job opening for PhDs from many companies.
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Our training program and its faculty are committed to provide an inclusive and accommodating environment for all students regardless of background or disability. The contributions of scientists whose backgrounds encompass diversity in culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, and economic background are vital to a healthy and constructive research environment. Incorporating diversity in our community, curriculum and research is essential for improving the health and knowledge of all, especially those from historically under-represented and disadvantaged groups.
As a part of this strategy, we strive to provide a learning environment that supports all of our students during their training. We partner with the Office for Diversity in Graduate Education, the Disability Resource Center (DRC), and the University of Minnesota’s Office for Equity and Diversity (OED) to offer resources for our trainees.
Many of our training grant faculty work with the DRC to accommodate students with disabilities in our classrooms. This may include providing a separate testing and exam taking environment and allowing extra time for exams and tests, conversion of documents, or note taking assistance. All classrooms are wheel chair accessible and every effort will be made to accommodate students with disabilities in our classrooms. UM class syllabi include a statement that instructors are willing to provide reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities and ask student to contact the DRC and register with DRC to access resources provided by the UM.
To further strengthen education and training of our faculty on resources offered by the DRC and train them in Best Practices/Universal Design for Instruction (https://diversity.umn.edu/disability/), we will reach out to the DRC and OED to organize training faculty meetings with resource/outreach staff from the DRC and identify 2-3 hr workshops offered by the OED (https://diversity.umn.edu/workshopsandtrainings) to be taken by training faculty and interested students.
Subcellular Analysis, Mitochondria, Doxorubicin Metabolism
Engineering the Cell Microenvironment, Regulation of Cellular Dormancy and Activation, Stem Cell-based models of Barrier Function
Computational Biomechanics and Transport
Metabolic Control and Regulation in Adipocytes, Obesity/Insulin Action, Lipid Metabolism, Protein-lipid Association, Lipid Oxidation, Proteomics
Bacterial Communication Mechanisms and Antibiotics. Advancing the Analysis of Biological Systems, Designing and Synthesizing Molecules.
Physiology of Anaerobes, Electricity Generation by Electrode-attached Bacteria
Microfluidics, DNA Technologies, Biophysics
Cell-cell Communication and Gene Regulation in Bacteria, Novel RNA Regulators of Gene Expression, Genetic Determinants of Biofilm Formation
Cellular phosphate uptake and bacterial virulence, Molecular engineering of enzymes and biotechnological applications
Physiology and synthetic biology of environmental bacteria
Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics
Engineering Principles Applied to Chemistry, Biology, and Physiology. Disease Detection, Non-invasive in Vivo Molecular Imaging of Tumors
Analytical chemistry, chemical biology, materials chemistry, environmental chemistry, chemical physics
Plant Metabolomics
Genomic Cell Engineering, Tissue Engineering, Bioreaction Engineering
Bioinformatics, Parallel Computing, Data Mining
Systems Biology of Plant Disease Resistance
Enantioselective Synthesis, Protein Engineering, Catalytic Plasticity, Evolution of Enzymes, Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry
Computational biology, bioinformatics, statistical mechanics, protein fold recognition, antimicrobial peptides, multiscale modeling
DNA Nanotechnology, Biomolecular Engineering, Targeted Drug & Gene Delivery, Peptide Hydrogels, Biopolymers
Oxygenase Mechanisms, Metalloproteins, Magnetic Resonance Techniques, Kinetics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Molecular Genetics of Development, Growth Factor Signaling, Gene Regulation
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
Protein Engineering for Chemical Modulation of Transcription Factor Function
Biocatalysis/Biodegradation of Chlorocarbon Compounds, Bioremediation, Plant-microbe Interactions with Bradurhizobiujm and Rhizobium, Ecophysiology of E. coli, Methods to Determine Sources of Bacteria in the Environment
Biomolecular Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology
Metabolic Pathway Engineering, Combinatorial Biosynthesis, Directed Evolution, Natural Products
Protein Engineering, Cellular Engineering
Biocatalysis, Directed Evolution, Protein Engineering, Artificial Enzymes
Microenvironments, Cell-environment Interactions, Biomolecular Engineering
Synthetic Biology, Natural Product Biosynthesis, Engineering Multigene Systems
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Neural Tissue Engineering
Plant Genome Engineering Through Homologous Recombination; Retrotransposable Elements and Genome Organization
Biodegradation, Microbial Genomics, Metabolic Engineering
Biomaterials, Nonviral Delivery of Genes and Vaccines, Tissue Engineering
Principles of Chemistry, Biology and Engineering to Achieve Biosynthesis Beyond Nature
Voytas (Lead), Dunny, Wei-Shou Hu, Katagiri , Myers, O’Connor, Smanski
This group will give our trainees instructions in genome engineering, computational analysis and visualization of biological interaction networks.
Haynes (Lead), Arriaga, Bernlohr, Distefano,Griffin, Hegeman, John D. Lipscomb, Will Pomerantz, Dan Knights, Daniel Schmidt
Trainees will receive instruction from these trainers in omics approaches and the application of cutting-edge probes and tools.
Burckhard Seelig (Lead), Samira Azarin, Erin Carlson, Mikael Elias, Ben Hackel, Romas Kazlauskas, Yiannis Kaznessis, Efrosini Kokkoli, Casim Sarkar, Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
Trainers in this group are interested in the discovery and design of new protein and metabolic pathways with the goal of generating new cellular or protein functions for biotechnological applications. They use synthetic biology and computational design methods to create emergent functions. They combine molecular engineering strategies with computational design, thereby exposing trainees to quantitative and rational molecular design.
Brenda Ogle (Lead), Victor Barocas, Kevin Dorfman, Jeffrey A. Gralnick, George Karypis, Michael J. Sadowsky, Wei Shen, Robert T. Tranquillo, Lawrence P. Wackett, Chun Wang, Kechun Zhang
This group of faculty is experienced at implementing scientific discoveries and developments into applied technologies and products. They will expose trainees to aspects lof entrepreneurship and innovation.
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
Engineering of biomaterials and cellular microenvironments, cell-environment interactions, biomolecular engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Engineering of biomaterials and cellular microenvironments, cell-environment interactions, biomolecular engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovacular tissue engineering, neural tissue engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biomaterials, non-viral delivery of genes and vaccines, tissue engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Ocular biomechanics and transport, tissue- equivalent mechanics, microelectromechanical systems
BMBB
Metabolic control and regulation in adipocytes, obesity/insulin action, lipid metabolism, protein- lipid association, lipid oxidation, proteomics
BMBB
Proteomics, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics
BMBB
Oxygenase mechanisms, metalloproteins, magnetic resonance techniques, kinetics
BMBB, BTI
Enantioselective synthesis, protein engineering, catalytic plasticity, evolution of enzymes, dynamic combinatorial chemistry
BMBB
Biological networks that coordinate metabolism and growth
BMBB; BTI
Metabolic pathway engineering, combinatorial biosynthesis, directed evolution, natural products
BMBB; BTI
Biocatalysis, directed evolution, protein engineering, artificial enzymes
BMBB; BTI
Biodegradation, microbial genomics, metabolic engineering
BMBB
Targeted protein degradation; Protein quality control; NMR spectroscopy
Microbiology; BTI
Physiology of anaerobes, electricity generation by electrode-attached bacteria
Chemistry; BTI
Protein engineering, biocatalysis, protein chemistry, enzymology, organic synthesis, protein prenylation
Microbiology; BTI
Physiology and genetic engineering of environmental bacteria
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.; BTI
Genomic cell engineering, tissue engineering, bioreaction engineering
BMBB, BTI
Enantioselective synthesis, protein engineering, catalytic plasticity, evolution of enzymes, dynamic combinatorial chemistry
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.; BTI
Computational biology, bioinformatics, statistical mechanics, protein fold recognition, antimicrobial peptides, multi-scale modeling
Soil, Water and Climate; BTI
Biocatalysis/biodegradation of chlorocarbon compounds, bioremediation, plant-microbe interactions with bradurhizobiujm and rhizobium, exophysiology of E. coli, methods to determine sources of bacteria in the environment
BMBB; BTI
Metabolic pathway engineering, combinatorial biosynthesis, directed evolution, natural products
BMBB; BTI
Biocatalysis, Directed Evolution, Protein Engineering, Artificial Enzymes
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.; BTI
Population dynamics and biopolymers
BMBB; BTI
Biodegradation, microbial genomics, metabolic engineering
Chemistry
Subcellular analysis, mitochondria, doxorubicin metabolism
Chemistry
Bacterial communication mechanisms and antibiotics
Chemistry; BTI
Protein engineering, biocatalysis, protein chemistry, enzymology, organic synthesis, protein prenylation
Chemistry
Analytical chemistry, chemical biology, materials chemistry, environmental chemistry, chemical physics
Chemistry
Protein engineering for chemical modulation of transcription factor function
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.
Microfluidics, DNA electrophoresis, biophysics
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.
Molecular imaging, engineering proteins, tumor targeting
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.; BTI
Genomic cell engineering, tissue engineering, bioreaction engineering
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.; BTI
Computational biology, bioinformatics, statistical mechanics, protein fold recognition, antimicrobial peptides, multi-scale modeling
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.
Biotechnology and bioengineering polymers
Chemical Eng. & Mats. Sci.; BTI
Population dynamics and biopolymers
Chemical Engineering & Mats. Sci.
Principles of chemistry, biology, and engineering to achieve biosynthesis beyond nature
Computer Science and Engineering
Bioinformatics, parallel computing, data mining
Computer Science and Engineering
Computational biology
Computer Science and Engineering
Machine learning methods for integrating large- scale genomic datasets to understand gene function and biological networks
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Morphogenesis, cell cycle, chromosome function and genomic structure in yeasts
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Gene therapy for genetic diseases and cancer
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Molecular genetics of development, growth factor signaling, gene regulation
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Protein engineering, cellular engineering
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Plant genome engineering through homologous recombination; Retrotransposable elements and genome organization
Horticultural Science
Plant metabolomics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Logic synthesis and synthetic biology
Mathematics
Modeling of complex systems, mathematical biology, morphogenesis
Microbiology; BTI
Physiology of anaerobes, electricity generation by electrode-attached bacteria
Microbiology
Cell-cell communication and gene regulation in bacteria, novel RNA regulators of gene expression
Microbiology; BTI
Physiology and genetic engineering of environmental bacteria
Plant Biology
Systems biology of plant disease resistance
Soil, Water and Climate; BTI
Biocatalysis/biodegradation of chlorocarbon compounds, bioremediation, plant-microbe interactions with bradurhizobiujm and rhizobium, exophysiology of E. coli, methods to determine sources of bacteria in the environment
David Mills
Bryce Pierson
Kristi Swope
Paul August
Barbara Bensing
J. Nanette Paul
Ronald Davies
David Reeder
Paul Sheldon
Ryan Taber
Florence Wu
JJ Hahn
Daniel Jackson
Timothy Leaf
John McLaughlin
Frank Volkers
Eric Eckwall
Paul Hermes
Scott Frykman
Shane Cain
Steven Wendell
Tammy Turek
Claire Hypolite
Derek Adams
Jason Patzlaff
Julie Friend
Olav Lyngberg
Susan Abu-Absi
Kevin Dolbeare
Aileen Green
Edmund Kao
Aaron Kelley
Betsy M. Martinez-Zayas
Barbara May
Jennifer Seffernick
Emmanouhl Tzanakakis
Michael Valley
Michelle Wagner
Nicholas Abu-Absi
Jerry Johnson
Michael Paustian
Jessica West
Adrian Anderson
Ross Carlson
Stephanie Groce
Simon Shannon
Brian Trammel
Marcela De Leon Gatti
Lisa Herron-Olson
Robert Schwartz
Jason Belter
James Kacmar
Briana Kozlowicz
Erik Pederson
Jack Staddon
Kenneth Finley
Jeffrey (Clem) Fortman
Heather Haemig (Hrodey)
Patrick Hossler
Kevin Watts
Andrew Wilber
Aaron Wlaschin
Charles Cameron
Benjamin Kiddler
Bobby Poe
Howard Salis
David Umulis
Katie Wlaschin
Janelle Cockrell
Anthony Dodge
Jimmy Gosse
Allison Langham
Erin Marasco
Matthew Hamilton
Anne Kantardijeff
Karen Olson
Jonathan Tomshine
James Wollack
Daniel Coursolle
Amanda Degraw
Johnathan Gorke
Bree Hamman
Nathan Lindquist
Emilie Rexesien (Grzywa)
Kelly Bouchonville
Janice Frias
Tyler Price
Tyler Yin
Christina Brakken-Thal
Laura (Case) Cook
Daisy Cross
Jessica Eichmiller
Rachel Hillmer
Margaret Linak
Josh Ochocki
Jason Owens
Janet Rollefson Lawrence
Richard Beck
Stephan Cameron
Sean Corum
Kevin DeRonne
John Haugner
Chris Kauffman
Joel Kooren
Chad Satori
Ilya Tikh
Katherine Volzing
Brett Waybrant
Adam Woodruff
Nick Baltes
Sarah Bloch (Spainhour)
Timothy Johnson
Nicholas Kotloski
David Panus
Patrick Smadbeck
Veronica Diaz-Rodriguez
Ian Gunsolus
Jeremiah Riesberg
Sarah Gruba
Brittany Bennett
Rebecca Breuer
Clairessa Brown
Joseph Buchman
David Chau
James Christenson
Heather Grundhofer
Amy Hauck
Sarah Hunt
Bryan Jones
Anh La
Amani Lee
Maria McClintock
Brian Mikolajczyk
Daniel Mohr
Lauren Otto
Carolyn Scott
Scott Simpkins
Lawrence Stern
Andrew Urick