Protein Engineering and Design Directory

Portrait of Brett Barney
Brett Barney Associate Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Microbial Engineering Graduate Program Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology

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Portrait of Mikael Elias
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.

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Ben Hackel 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

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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.

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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.

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Headshot of Vincent Noireaux
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

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Casim Sarkar Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Protein engineering and design, Synthetic biology

Using tools of biomolecular engineering, synthetic biology, and systems biology to design new molecular and cellular therapeutics

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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.

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Portrait of Burckhard Seelig
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, and the study of the origin and evolution of functional proteins

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