Areas of Specialty
Research Interests:
- Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology
- X-ray crystallography
- Drug discovery
- Protein engineering
Education
- B.S. Biophysics, 1997, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
- M.S. Biochemistry, 1998, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
- Ph.D. Biophysics, 2001, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
- Post-doctoral Researcher, Chemistry, 2004, California Institute of Technology
Research and Scholarship
My main research interest is the structure-function relationship in carbohydrate-related and other proteins and its application to drug discovery, protein engineering and biotechnology. In our laboratory, we apply high-throughput methodologies for protein expression, functional analysis and crystallization. Besides x-ray protein crystallography, we routinely use membrane protein biochemistry, molecular biology and structural modeling.