Team

Alison Narayan
Institute Director
LSA, LSI

Research Interests: Biocatalysis, Complex Molecule Synthesis, Natural Products

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Bradley Biggs
Engineering

Research Interests: Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Microbial Ecology, Natural Product Synthesis

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Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb
Chemistry, LSA

Research Interests: Imaging & Spectroscopy, Chemical Biology, Photochemistry, Catalysis, Biomacromolecular Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Energy & Environmental Chemistry, Chemistry

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Charles Brooks
Engineering, LSA

Research Interests: Statistical Mechanics, Machine Learning, Computational Biophysics, Drug Discovery, Protein Design. 

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Timothy Cernak
LSA, Pharmacy

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Robert Kennedy
LSA, Medical School

Research Interests: Bioanalytical Chemistry, Microfluidics, Mass Spectrometry, High-throughput Analysis

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Nina Lin
Engineering

Research Interests: Microbiome Engineering, Industrial Bio-manufacturing, Bioremediation, Microdroplet Co-cultivation and Analysis

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Anna Mapp
LSA, LSI

Research Interests: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Molecular Biology, Transcriptional Activation, Protein-Protein Interactions

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Matthew O'Meara
DCMB, Pharmacy

Research Interests: Molecular Modeling, Virtual Screening, Generative AI, Analysis of High-Content Screens.

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Filipa Barroso Pereira
LSI, Medical School

Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Natural Products, Biosynthetic Pathways, Drug Discovery

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Janet Smith
LSA, LSI, Medical School

Research Interests: Crystallography, Viruses and Infectious Diseases, Protein Structure and Function, Natural Product Biosynthesis

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