Bio

Education

B.S./B.A. Chemistry/Physics Emory University 2009

Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics University of Pennsylvania 2017

Post-doctoral Fellow w/ David Baker University of Washington

Publications

• Probing the molecular determinants of emission enhancement in RNA aptamer–metal complex systems , Photochemistry and Photobiology (2026)
• The past, present and future of de novo protein design , Nature (2026)
• White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures: Research Priorities for the Search for Life on Other Worlds , (2026)
• De novo design of proteins housing excitonically coupled chlorophyll special pairs , Nature Chemical Biology (2024)
• Design of Heme Enzymes with a Tunable Substrate Binding Pocket Adjacent to an Open Metal Coordination Site , Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023)
• De novo protein design of photochemical reaction centers , Nature Communications (2022)
• Rational design of photosynthetic reaction center protein maquettes , Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (2022)
• Making Maquette Models of Bioenergetic Structures , Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks (2017)
• Maquette Strategy for Creation of Light- and Redox-Active Proteins , WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks (2017)
• De Novo Construction of Redox Active Proteins , Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology (2016)

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