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

Anna Wang

 Chemistry AB 2006 Sequence, Expression, and Structural Characterization of a High-Quality De Novo Combinatorial Four Helix Bundle Library Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Jesse Platt

 Chemistry AB 2007 Biophysical Characterization of De Novo Four Helix Bundle Proteins University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philidelphia PA.

Ellen Duncan

 Chemistry AB 2007 Expression and Enzymatic Activity in Proteins from a Combinatorial Library of De Novo Proteins Columbia University Medical School

Debbie Chen

 Molecular Biology AB 2007 The Aβ42-GFP Fusion Screen: A High Throughput Screen for Compounds that Inhibit Aggregation of the Alzheimer's Peptide University of Connecticut Medical School

Sayuri Jinadasa

 Chemistry AB 2008 Screening, Purification, and Kinetic Characterization of de novo Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library Columbia University Medical School, New York, NY.

Anne Armstrong

 Chemistry AB 2008 Exploring the Primary Sequence Det, erminants of Amyloid Beta Aggregation: Towards a Targeted Therapeutic Approach to Alzheimer's Disease Mount Sinai Medical School

Sara Viola

 Molecular Biology AB 2008 Novel Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library Restore Prototrophy in Single Gene knockouts of Escherichia Coli. Columbia University Medical School, New York, NY

Steve Sasson

 Chemistry AB 2009 A Bacterial Surface Display Library for the High-Throughput Screening and Selection of De Novo Designed Four-Helix Bundle Proteins JP Morgan, New York, NY

Sam Leachman

 Chemistry AB 2009 Redesigning a Dynamic Artificial Protein University of California, Berkeley

Beverly Hon

 Molecular Biology AB 2009 Novel Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library Suppress Conditional Auxotrophs in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Jessica Langholtz

 Chemistry AB 2009 Screening and Enzymatic Characterization of De Novo Proteins from a Designed Combinatorial Library Teaching in Philadelphia, PA.

Atrish Bagchi

 Chemistry AB 2010 Synthetic Biology: Metal-Binding Proteins from a Combinatorially Designed Artificial Proteome Grad Student at UPenn

Kara McKinley

 Molecular Biology AB 2010 Conditionally Essential and Promiscuous Function of De Novo Designed Proteins in Escherichia coli Grad Student at MIT (Biology)

David Canner

 Chemistry AB 2011 Examination of Efficacy of Pro-Aggregation Compounds in the Treatment of A-Beta Mediated Toxicity in a Drosophila melanogaster Alzheimer's Disease Model Grad Student at MIT (Biology)

Dan Echelman

 Chemistry AB 2011 A biochemical characterization of a synthetic iron metabolism protein Columbia University, MD/PhD program

Ros Kellen

 Molecular Biology AB 2011 De novo four-helix bundles restore cell growth of auxotrophic Escherichia coli Cornell University Medical School

Charlotte Rajasingh

 Chemistry AB 2011 Characterization of De Novo Sequences that Rescue the Deletion of Phosphoserine Phosphatase in Escherichia coli Stanford University Medical School

Maria Aristova

 Chemical Engineering AB 2012 Characterizing the Function of a de novo Protein Conferring Antibiotic Resistance in E. Coli Northwestern, MD/PhD program

Laura Bock

 Molecular Biology AB 2012 Characterization of a de novo Sequence that Rescues the Delection of Phosphoadenosine Phosphosulfate Reductase in E. Coli Consultant at Oliver Wyman

Richard Hildreth

 Molecular Biology AB 2013 Investigations into the Activity of the Novel Protein SynFes-2

Eliza Hompe

 Chemistry AB 2014 Investigation into the Enzymatic Function of an Evolved de novo Protein

Jack Greisman

 Molecular Biology AB 2014 Characterization of Functional Proteins from a Combinatorial Library of de novo Designed Sequences D.E. Shaw Research

Kelly Ivins-O'Keefe

 Chemistry AB 2014 Probing Unevolved Sequence Space for Metal Binding Uniformed Services University Medical School