Protein Engineering and Design Directory

	Brett Barney Associate Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology	[email protected]
	Mikael Elias Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Biomanufacturing, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Microbial enzymes and systems with potential use in industry or bio-remediation, specifically, the cellular phosphate uptake mechanism.	[email protected]
	Ben Hackel Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Computational biology, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Protein engineering technologies to develop physiological molecular targeting agents for molecular diagnostics and targeted therapy	[email protected]
	Romas Kazlauskas Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Green (sustainable) chemistry, enzyme modeling, enzyme design, and enzyme engineering.	[email protected]
	Tom Niehaus Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Studying metabolic biochemistry in plant and microbial organisms; focused on metabolite damage and repair associated with the TCA cycle.	[email protected]
	Vincent Noireaux Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy Biomanufacturing, Bioremediation and resource recovery, Industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Cell-free synthetic biology; cell-free gene expression; gene circuits; bacteriophages; synthetic cell systems; biological physics	[email protected]
	Casim Sarkar Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Using tools of biomolecular engineering, synthetic biology, and systems biology to elucidate fundamental biological design principles that underlie cellular decision making	[email protected]
	Claudia Schmidt-Dannert Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics; Director, BioTechnology Institute Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Biomanufacturing, Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Exploring and utilizing biosynthetic machineries to enable sustainable synthesis of valuable compounds for use as fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and chemical building blocks.	[email protected]
	Burckhard Seelig Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology Molecular evolution to generate novel proteins for synthetic biology and biomedical applications, study the origin and evolution of functional proteins	[email protected]