Recent Graduate Students
Name Department Year(s) Thesis Title Where Are They Now?

Dave Moffet

 Chemistry Ph.D. 2002 Functional Proteins From a Designed Combinatorial Library Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

Yinan Wei

 Chemistry Ph.D. 2003 Structural and Functional Studies of Well Folded Alpha Helical Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

Aditi Das

 Chemistry Ph.D. 2005 Electrochemical and Functional Studies of de Novo Alpha Helical Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Woojin Kim

 Chemistry Ph.D. 2006 Sequence Determinants and Inhibition of the Aggregation of the Alzheimer's ABeta Peptide Harvard Medical School

Abi Go

 Chemistry Ph.D. 2008 Structural and Dynamics of de Novo Proteins form a Designed Superfamily of 4-Helix Bundles Univeristy of Houston Law School

Shona Patel

 Chemical Engineering Ph.D. 2008 The Functional Potential of De Novo Designed Four-Helix Bundle Proteins Merck Inc, West Point, PA.

Jermont Chen

 Chemistry Ph.D. 2008 Using High Throughput Screens to Identify Lead Compounds for Alzheimer's Disease Theraputics Propulsion Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.

Mike Fisher

 Molecular Biology Ph.D. 2009 Toward de Novo Genomes Informed by Protein Design University of California - Berkley.

Emily Breneman

 Chemistry M.A. Screening de Novo Four-Helix Bundle Protein Libraries for Enzymatic Activity Using mRNA Display Vector Biolabs, Inc., Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

Angela Fortner-McKoy

 Chemistry Ph.D 2011 Characterization of Novel Inhibitors of Alzheimer's Peptide Aggregation and Implications for Disease Therapeutics Lecturer, Wheaton College

Maria Korolev

 Chemistry Ph.D 2013 Investigating the mechanism of two synthetic proteins found to rescue E. coli auxotrophic strains ΔgltA and Δges Lecturer at University of Florida