Current group members:
| Name | Position | Project |
| Frances H. Arnold | Principal Investigator | |
| Sabine Bastian | Laboratory Manager | Directed evolution of cytochrome P450 |
| Eric Brustad | Postdoctoral Researcher | Directed evolution of cytochrome P450 |
| Jackson Cahn | Graduate Student (Chem) | |
| Mike Chen | Postdoctoral Researcher | Directed evolution of cytochrome P450 |
| Pedro Coelho | Graduate Student (Chem) | Directed evolution of cytochrome P450 |
| Yousong Ding | Postdoctoral Researcher | Biofuels |
| Martin Engqvist | Postdoctoral Researcher | Spectral tuning of rhodopsins |
| Chris Farwell | Graduate Student (Chem) | |
| Ryan Lauchli | Postdoctoral Researcher | Directed evolution of cytochrome P450 |
| Joe Meyerowitz | Graduate Student (Biochem) | Biofuels |
| Kersten Rabe | Postdoctoral Researcher | Biofuels |
| Sebastian Schoof | Postdoctoral Researcher | |
| Matthew Smith | Graduate Student (BE) | Cellulase engineering |
| Devin Trudeau | Graduate Student (BE) | Biofuels |
| Indira Wu | Graduate Student (BE) | Directed evolution of cellulases |
Group alumni:
| Murat Acar, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale Systems Biology Institute Yale University PO Box 27391 West Haven, CT 06516-7391 murat.acar@yale.edu |
Miguel Alcalde, Ph.D. |
Staff Scientist Applied Biocatalysis Group Department of Biocatalysis Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry, CSIC Campus Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid, Spain malcalde@icp.csic.es |
| Geethani Bandara, Ph.D. |
Laboratory of Allergic Diseases NIAID, NIH Building 10, Room 11C206 10 Center Drive, MSC1881 Bethesda, MD 20892-1881 bandarag@niaid.nih.gov |
| Holger Berk, Ph.D. |
Institute of Organic Chemistry Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Marie-Curie-Strasse 11, N160-305 60439 Frankfurt, Germany berk@nmr.uni-frankfurt.de |
| Rita Bernhardt, Ph.D. |
Professor Universität des Saarlandes FR 8.8 - Biochemie Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany ritabern@mx.uni-saarland.de |
| Jesse Bloom, Ph.D. |
Principal Investigator Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center MS A3-015 1100 Fairview Avenue N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 jbloom@fhcrc.org |
| Jason Chen, Ph.D. |
Manager, Quality Analytical Labs Amgen One Amgen Center Drive Building 25, Room 0507 Mail Stop: 25-0-A Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799 jachen@amgen.com |
| Kevin Chen, Ph.D. |
Rugen Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Research and Development Room 2026-2027 NO. 555 Bldg 2, Dongchuan Rd. No. 5 Shangdi Kaituo Road Shanghai 200241 China kevin.chen@rugenpharma.com |
| Helen Chuang |
Vice President, Research and
Business Development Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 129 N. Hill Avenue, Suite 104 Pasadena, CA 91106 hchuang@mit.edu |
| Patrick C. Cirino, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of Houston S337 Engineering, Building 1 Houston, TX 77204-4004 pccirino@uh.edu |
| Cynthia H. Collins, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 ccollins@rpi.edu |
| Pradeep K. Dhal, Ph.D. |
Scientific Fellow Drug Discovery and Development Genzyme Corporation 153 Second Avenue Waltham, MA 02541 pradeep.dhal@genzyme.com |
| Michael Dougherty |
Joint Bioenergy Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5885 Hollis Street Emeryville, CA 94608 mjdougherty@lbl.gov |
| D. Allan Drummond, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Chicago GCIS W234 929 E. 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 dadrummond@uchicago.edu |
| Edgardo Farinas, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, NJ 07102 edgardo.t.farinas@njit.edu |
| Rudi Fasan, PhD |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry University of Rochester 409 Hutchinson Hall Rochester, NY 14627 fasan@chem.rochester.edu |
| Tilman Flock |
Hoehenstrasse 10A 87733 Markt Rettenback, Germany tilman.flock@mytum.de |
| Radu Georgescu |
Process Development Associate Amgen Inc. One Amgen Center Drive Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799 radug@amgen.com |
| Anne Gershenson |
Research Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1230 Lederle Graduate Research Tower University of Massachusetts at Amherst 710 N. Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01030 gershenson@biochem.umass.edu |
| Lori Giver, Ph.D. |
Vice President, R&D Systems Biology Codexis, Inc. 200 Penobscot Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 lori.giver@codexis.com |
| Anton Glieder, Ph.D. |
Professor Technical University of Graz Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Petersgasse 12 A-8010 Graz, Austria glieder@glieder.com CEO & CSO Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH) Petersgasse 14 A-8010 Graz, Austria anton.glieder@acib.at |
| Zhibin Guan, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Chemistry 516 Rowland Hall University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2025 zguan@uci.edu |
| Adam Hartwick, Ph.D. | Engineer ATO Pilot Plant Amgen, Inc. One Amgen Center Drive, M/S 30-W-1-A Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 ahartwic@amgen.com |
| Eric L. Haseltine, Ph.D. |
Research Scientist I, Knowledge
Management/CIA Vertex Pharmaceuticals 130 Waverly Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Eric_Haseltine@vrtx.com |
| Pete Heinzelman, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor School of Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering University of Oklahoma T-335 Sarkeys Energy Center 100 E. Boyd Street Norman, OK 73019-1004 pete@ou.edu |
| Kaori Hiraga, Ph.D. |
Scientist Wadsworth Center New York State Department of Health Albany, NY khiraga@wadsworth.org |
| John Joern, Ph.D. |
Scientist Meso-scale Discovery 9238 Gaither Road Gaithersburg, MD 20877 jjoern@meso-scale.com |
| Sang Taek Jung, Ph.D. |
Research Associate Chemical Engineering University of Texas, Austin 1 University Station C0400 Austin, TX 78712-0231 jung@che.utexas.edu |
| Marvin Kadisch, M.Sc. |
Ph.D. Student TU Dortmund Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Emil-Figge-Strasse 66 44227 Dortmund, Germany marvin.kadisch@bci.tu-dortmund.de |
| James Kellis, Ph.D. |
Senior Scientist Genencor International, Inc. 925 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 jkellis@genencor.com |
| Russell Komor, Ph.D. |
Scientist Synthetic Genomics, Inc. |
Takafumi Kubo |
Research Scientist Strategic Technology Research Center Nippon Shokubai Company, Ltd. 5-8 Nishi Otabi-cho, Suita Osaka 564-8512, Japan takafumi_kubo@shokubai.co.jp |
| Lutz Kummer |
Graduate Student Department of Biochemistry University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich, Switzerland l.kummer@bioc.unizh.ch |
| Marco Landwehr, Ph.D. |
Bioinformatics Manager SunGene GmbH - A BASF Plant Science Company Gatersleben D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany marco.landwehr@sungene.de |
| Robert Jan Lebbink, Ph.D. | University Medical Center Utrecht Medical Microbiology Heidelberglaan 100, G04.614 3584CX Utrecht The Netherlands robertjanlebbink@gmail.com |
| Jared Lewis, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry University of Chicago jaredlewis@uchicago.edu |
| Yougen Li, Ph.D. |
Senior Research Scientist DuPont Central Research & Development Experimental Station Building 228/310A Route 141 & Henry Clay Road Wilmington, DE 19880 yougenli@gmail.com |
| Zhanglin Lin, Ph.D. |
Bairen Program Professor of Biological Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China zhanglinlin@tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Sanku Mallik, Ph.D. | Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences North Dakota State University Sudro Hall, Room: 35A Department 2665 P.O. Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 Sanku.Mallik@ndsu.edu |
| Carlos A. Martinez, Ph.D. |
Research Scientist in Biocatalysis Pfizer PGRD, La Jolla Laboratories 4215 Sorrento Valley Blvd San Diego, CA 92121 carlos.martinez6@pfizer.com |
| Oliver May, Ph.D. |
Director, Research & Development DSM Bio-based Products and Services Mauritslaan 49 6129 El Urmond The Netherlands oliver.may@DSM.com |
| Kimberly Mayer,
Ph.D., M.B.A. |
Technology Commercialization Counselor North Carolina SBTDC 5 West Hargett Street, Suite 600 Raleigh, NC 27601-1348 kmayer@sbtdc.org |
| Peter Meinhold, Ph.D. |
Co-Founder & Research Director Gevo, Inc. 345 Inverness Drive South Building C, Suite 310 Englewood, CO 80112 pmeinhold@gevo.com |
| Michelle M. Meyer, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Biology Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 m.meyer@bc.edu |
| Florence Mingardon, Ph.D. | Joint Bioenergy Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5885 Hollis Street Emeryville, CA 94608 |
| Yuuichi Mitsuda, Ph.D. | Associate Senior Scientist Shionogi and Company, Ltd. 1-1 Futaba-cho, 3-chome, Toyonaka Osaka 561-0825, Japan yuuichi.mitsuda@shionogi.co.jp |
| Kentaro Miyazaki, Ph.D. |
Principal Investigator National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Central 6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan miyazaki-kentaro@aist.go.jp |
| Vincent M. Monnier, M.D. |
Professor of Pathology and
Biochemistry Institute of Pathology Case Western Reserve University 2103 Cornell Road Cleveland, OH 44106-7288 |
| Jeffrey C. Moore, Ph.D. |
Senior Investigator, Process Research Merck and Company, Inc. P.O. Box 2000, RY800-C364 Rahway, NJ 07065 jeffrey_moore@merck.com |
| Birgit Morawski, Ph.D. |
European Patent Attorney Patentanwälte Maikowski & Ninnemann European Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Berlin Kurfürstendamm 54-55 D-10707 Berlin, Germany office@maikowski-ninnemann.com |
| Kingman Ng, Ph.D. |
Research Scientist Novartis kingman.ng@novartis.com |
| Chris Otey, Ph.D. |
Director - Life Sciences Alexandria Real Estate Equities |
| Daniel W. Pack, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign MC-712, Box C-3 600 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 |
| Michael Paulus |
Ph.D. Candidate (Biochemistry) Roche Diagnostics Nonnenwald 2 82377 Penzberg, Germany michael.paulus@roche.com |
| Matthew Peters, Ph.D. | Co-Founder and President Gevo, Inc. 345 Inverness Drive South Building C, Suite 310 Englewood, CO 80112 mpeters@gevo.com |
| Joanna P. Petrounia, Ph.D. | Senior Scientist Johnson & Johnson PRD Welsh & McKean Roads Spring House, PA 19477 ipetroun@its.jnj.comoanna |
| Sean Plunkett,
Ph.D. |
Director of
Delivery Systems Alkermes Inc. 88 Sidney Street Cambridge, MA 02139 sean.plunkett@alkermes.com |
| Manish Raizada, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Plant Agriculture Crop Science Building University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 raizada@uoguelph.ca |
| Andrea Rentmeister, Ph.D. |
Junior Professor Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Hamburg Martin Luther King Platz 6 20146 Hamburg, Germany rentmeister@chemie.uni-hamburg.de |
| Philip Romero, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences University of California, San Francisco |
| Michael T. Ru |
Sr. Process Engineer Intel Corporation RNB-2-18 Litho/Etch Department 2200 Mission College Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95054-1537 michael.t.ru@intel.com |
| Takeshi Sakamoto, Ph.D. |
Research Associate Life-Science Laboratory Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 1000 Kamoshidacho Aoba-ku Yokohama, 227-8502 Japan 3002032@cc.m-kagaku.co.jp |
| Oriana Salazar, Ph.D. |
Centre for Biochemical Engineering
and Biotechnology Department of Chemical Engineering University of Chile Beauchef 861 Santiago, Chile orsalaza@cec.uchile.cl |
| Darryl Y. Sasaki, Ph.D. |
Sandia National Laboratories, California MS 9292 Livermore, CA 94551-9292 dysasak@sandia.gov |
| Andrew Sawayama, Ph.D. | Scientist Carmot Therapeutics, Inc. 409 Illinois Street San Francisco, CA 94114 asawayama@carmot.us |
| Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Ph.D. |
Professor Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota 140 Gortner Laboratory 1479 Gortner Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 schmi232@umn.edu |
| Ulrich Schwaneberg, Ph.D. |
Professor of Biochemical
Engineering School of Engineering and Science Jacobs University Bremen Campus Ring 1 28725 Bremen, Germany u.schwaneberg@iu-bremen.de |
| Denis Shcherbakov, B.S. |
Princeton University Department of Chemical Engineering E-Quad A221, Olden Street Princeton, NJ 08544-5263 deniss@princeton.edu |
| Deborah Shnek |
Director, Drug Product & Device Development Amgen, Inc. 1201 Amgen Court Seattle, WA 98119 dshnek@amgen.com |
| Volker Sieber, Ph.D. |
Professor and Chair Chemistry of Biogenic Resources Technische Universität München Schulgasse 16 D-94315 Straubing, Germany e.aichnerwz-straubing.de |
| Hadley Sikes, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 sikes@mit.edu |
| Jonathan (Joff) Silberg, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Cell Biology Rice University Houston, TX 77251 joff@rice.edu |
| Christopher Snow , Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering 1370 Campus Delivery Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1370 christopher.snow@colostate.edu |
| Susanne Striegler, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry Department of Chemistry 179 Chemistry Building Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849 susanne.striegler@auburn.edu |
| Lianhong Sun, Ph.D. |
Professor School of Life Sciences University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui, 230027 P. R. China lianhong@ustc.edu.cn |
| Katsuyuki Takahashi |
Senior Researcher Biocatalysis Team Technical Center Mitsui Chemicals Asia Pacific, Ltd. #06-08/-11 50 Science Park Road Singapore Science Park II katsuyuki.takahashi@mitsui-chem.co.jp |
| Todd Thorsen, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 3-248 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 thorsen@mit.edu |
| Alex Tobias, Ph.D. |
Sr. Research Engineer Biochemical Science & Engineering DuPont Central Research & Development Experimental Station, Box 80323 Wilmington, DE 19880-0323 Alexander.V.Tobias@usa.dupont.com |
| Robert (Bob) Todd, Ph.D. |
Associate Director Amgen Process Development AC-24 4000 Nelson Road Longmont, CO 80501 btodd@amgen.com |
| Andrew K. Udit, Ph.D. |
Research Associate The Scripps Research Institute 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road Mail Code CB-248 La Jolla, CA 92037 akudit@scripps.edu |
| Daisuke Umeno, Ph.D. |
Professor, Department of Applied
Chemistry and Biotechnology Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-machi, Inage-Ku Chiba, Japan 263-8522 umeno@faculty.chiba-u.jp |
| Francisco
Valles, B.S. |
Research
Associate Genentech Inc. 1 DNA Way Mail Stop 32 South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990 cisco@gene.com |
| Christopher Voigt, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Biology Center 500 Technology Square NE47-277 Cambridge, MA 02139 |
| Emily Wen |
Merck Research Laboratory WP 1-9 West Point PA 19486 emily_wen@merck.com |
| Patrick Wintrode, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106-4970 patrick.wintrode@case.edu |
| Tuck Seng Wong, Ph.D. |
Lecturer Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences Sir Robert Hadfield Building Mappin Street Sheffield S1 3JD United Kingdom T.Wong@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Gerald E. Wuenschell, Ph.D. | Staff Scientist Molecular Medicine Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope 1500 E. Duarte Road Duarte, CA 91010 gwuenschell@coh.org |
| Makoto Yagasaki, Ph.D. |
Research Manager Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. Tokyo Research Laboratories 3-6-6, Asahimachi, Machidashi, Tokyo, Japan 194-8533 m.yagasaki@kyowa.co.jp Waseda University Dept. of Applied Chemistry 3-4-1, Ookubo, Shinjukuku Tokyo, Japan 169-8555 |
| Yohei Yokobayashi, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California, Davis 451 Health Sciences Drive, GBSF 3315 Davis, CA 95616 yoko@ucdavis.edu |
| Lingchong You, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University 136 Hudson Hall 3000 Science Drive Campus Box 90281 Durham, NC 27708 you@duke.edu |
| Ji-Hu Zhang, Ph.D. |
Fellow Novartis Pharmaceuticals Company One Health Plaza East Hanover, NJ 07936 ji-hu.zhang@pharma.novartis.com |
| Huimin Zhao, Ph.D. |
Centennial Endowed Chair Professor Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 215 Roger Adams Laboratory, Box C3 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 600 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 zhao5@uiuc.edu |