Postdoctoral Associates

• Jessica Willi

  2020-2024

  Assistant Professor at The University of Lethbridge

• Peivand Sadat Mousavi

  2022-2023

  Postdoc at Stanford University

• Maria Cabezas Tapia

  2018-2023

  Northwestern University

• Steve Flemming

  2020-2022

  Genentech

• Antje Krüger

  2017-2022

  Resilience

• Jon Bogart

  2019-2022 w/ Martin Burke from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Life Edit Therapeutics

• Bastian Vögeli

  2019-2021

  Invizyme

• Michael Hammerling

  2016-2021

  Future House

• Joongoo Lee

  2016-2021

  Assistant Professor at Postech

• Jian Li

  2013-2017

  Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University

• James Kath

  2015-2017

  Abbvie

• Gan Rui

  2010-2017

  VecX Biomedicines

• Yong Chan Kwon

  2012-2017

  Assistant Professor at Lousiana State University

• Filippo Caschera

  2014-2015

  Invitris

• Javin Oza

  2012-2015

  Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University

• Seok Hoon Hong

  2011-2015

  Associate Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, deceased

• Arnaz Ranji

  2011-2013

  Head of School at Edubridge International School

• D. Calvin Harris

  2011-2013

  UTHSC College of Dentistry

• Xinhao Ye

  2012

  Pfizer

• Anne Bunner

  2010-2012

  Biologist/Clinical Analyst at FDA/OND

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Graduate Students

• Holly Ekas

  1/1/2020-7/1/2024

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Starling)

  Thesis title: “Development and optimization of high-throughput cell-free platforms for biosensor engineering””

• Madison DeWinter

  9/1/2020-4/1/2024

  Medical Scientist Training Program, Chemical and Biological Engineering (MD Northwestern University).

  Thesis title: “Developing cell-free approaches for the design and delivery of protein-based therapeutics.”

• Camila Kofman

  1/1/2019-3/1/2024

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Avery Biotech)

  Thesis title: “Novel methods and applications of ribosome engineering for synthetic biology.”

• Ariel Thames

  10/1/2019-4/1/2023

  Medical Scientist Training Program, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program (MD Northwestern University).

  Thesis title: “Developing the synthetic biologist’s toolbox for targeting siglecs for the treatment of mast cell-mediated diseases.”

• Kosuke Seki

  1/1/2019-6/30/2023

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Postdoctoral Associate with Tanja Kortemme)

  Thesis title: “Developing platforms for protein engineering and genetic code expansion using in vitro translation systems.”

• Blake Rasor

  1/1/2018-6/30/2023

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Postdoctoral Associate with Tobi Erb)

  Thesis title: “Advancing metabolic pathway prototyping and establishing cell-free biomanufacturing capabilities using rewired cell extracts.”

• Katherine Warfel

  1/1/2018-8/31/23

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Nabla Bio)

  Thesis Title: “Enalbing robust cell-free synthesis of conjugate vaccines for decentralized biomanufacturing.”

• Sam Gowland

  1/1/2018-12/1/22

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Postdoctoral Associate with Corey Wilson)

  Thesis title: “Constructing chassis strains using a novel genome-engineering platform for further development and application of engineered translation systems.”

• Grant Rybnicky

  6/1/2018-7/1/2022

  Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program (Naval Research Laboratory).

  Thesis title: “Establishing Cell-Free Systems to Understand, Apply and Deliver CRISPR-Cas Systems.”

• Charlotte Abrahamson

  1/1/2017-7/1/2022

  Chemical and Biological Engineering jointly advised with Danielle Tullman-Ercek (Vaxcyte).

  Thesis title: “Development of in vitro techniques to study the assembly and function of bacterial microcompartments.”

• Andrew Hunt

  1/1/2017-7/1/2022

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Postdoctoral Associate with David Baker)

  Thesis title: “High-Throughput and Plate-Based Protein-Protein Interaction Screening Using Cell-Free Protein Synthesis.”

• Do Soon Kim

  1/1/2015-6/30/2021

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Inceptive)

  Thesis title: “Design of engineered ribosomes for synthetic biology.”

• Adam Silverman

  1/1/2017-4/1/2021

  Chemical and Biological Engineering jointly advised with Julius Lucks (Sherlock Biosciences).

  Thesis title: “Design and optimization of a field-deployable biosensing platform for measuring water quality.”

• Jasmine Hershewe

  1/1/2017-12/31/2020

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Telesis Bio)

  Thesis title: “Improving and engineering cell-free systems for glycoprotein production.”

• Weston Kightlinger

  1/1/2015-06/30/2020

  Chemical and Biological Engineering, (CTO Swiftscale Biologics).

  Thesis title: “Cell-free platforms for characterization and engineering of protein glycosylation systems.”

• Anne d’Aquino

  6/1/2015-1/1/2020

  Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program (Senior Scientist Stemloop Inc.).

  Thesis title: “Studying and engineering the E. coli 70S Ribosome in vivo and in vitro for the synthesis of abiological polymers.”

• Jessica Stark

  1/1/2014-9/30/2019

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Assistant Professor MIT).

  Thesis title: “Cell-free technologies for on-demand glycoprotein biomanufacturing and hands-on biology education.”

• Benjamin Des Soye

  6/1/2013-12/31/2018

  Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program (Technology Fellow Proteomics Center of Excellence Northwestern University).

  Thesis title: “Cell-free platforms for synthesis of non-standard polypeptides in vitro.”

• Ashty Karim

  1/1/2014-8/31/2018

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University)

  Thesis title: “A cell-free framework for rapid enzymatic pathway prototyping and discovery.”

• Quentin Dudley

  1/1/2013-10/1/2017

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin).

  Thesis title: “Cell-free biosynthesis of isoprenoids using Escherichia coli crude lysates.”

• Rey Martin

  1/1/2013-9/1/2017

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (DuPont)

  Thesis title: “Establishing novel cell-free platforms for the synthesis of protein-based biologics.”

• Erik Carlson

  1/1/2011-8/1/2017

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Postdoctoral Associate with Beth Sattely Stanford University).

  Thesis title: “A platform for ribosome engineering in living Escherichia coli.”

• Adam Hockenberry

  6/1/2011-6/1/2017

  Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program jointly advised with Luis Amaral (Postdoctoral Associate with Claus Wilke UT Austin Tempus Labs Inc.).

  Thesis title: “Sequence determinants of translation efficiency.”

• Jessica Perez

  1/1/2012-12/31/2016

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Associate Director of Education and Inclusivity with the Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems Research (POETS))

  Thesis title: “Improving co-translational incorporation of non-standard amino acids into recombinant proteins using genomically recoded Escherichia coli.”

• Jennifer Kay

  1/1/2012-8/31/2016

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Gingko Bioworks)

  Thesis title: “Establishment of a system for small molecule synthesis by crude lysates of Escherichia coli.”

• Jennifer Schoborg

  1/1/2012-8/1/2016

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Pfizer)

  Thesis title: “Development and application of cell-free protein synthesis platforms for biotherapeutic proteins.”

• Yi Liu

  9/1/2012-12/31/2015

  Medical Scientist Training Program (MD)

• Brian Fritz

  1/1/2010-12/31/2014

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Moderna Therapeutics)

  Thesis title: “In vitro ribosome construction for ribosome engineering.”

• Charles ‘Eric’ Hodgman

  1/1/2010-3/31/2014

  Chemical and Biological Engineering (Bristol Myers Squibb)

  Thesis title: “Establishing a yeast cell-free protein synthesis platform.”

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Master’s Students

• Isaiah Richardson

  M.Sc. 2022

  PhD Student, Dartmouth College

• Deepali Prasanna

  M.Sc. 2023

  PhD Student, Cornell University

• Hunter Brown

  M.Sc. 2021

  Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, NC State University

• Danielle Yoesep

  M.Sc. 2018

  SwiftScale

• Dubby Wiseman

  M.Sc. 2017

  Genentech

• He Wang

  M.Sc. 2016

  GreenLight Biosciences

• Jasmine Hershewe

  M.Sc. 2015

  PhD Student, Northwestern University

• Alaksh Choudhury

  M.Sc. 2014

  PhD Student, University of Colorado

• Oliver Weisser

  M.Sc. 2014

  Deloitte

• Mark Anderson

  M.Sc. 2012

  Abbott

• Richard Bellin

  M.Sc. 2011

  Abbvie

• Eric Van Groll

  M.Sc. 2011

  Ohmx

• Eric Tseng

  M.Sc. 2010

  Abbott

• Andrea Engel

  M.Sc. 2010

  LanzaTech

• Eric Hammarlund

  M.Sc. 2022

  Resilience

• Will Grubbe

  M.Sc. 2017

  PhD Student, University of Chicago

• Laura Timmerman

  Jointly advised with Luis Amaral. M.Sc. 2013

  ToxStrategies Inc.). Thesis title: “In vitro integration of ribosomal RNA synthesis

Research Staff

• Dale Perdue

  2019-2022

  (Northwestern University)

• Lauren Clark

  2014-2023

  Lab Manager (Northwestern University)

• Danielle Yoesep

  2019-2020

  (Swiftscale Biologics)

• Diana Suder

  2018-2019

  (PhD Student University of California Irvine)

• He Wang

  2017

  (GreenLight Biosciences)

• Jasmine Hershewe

  2016

  (Telesis Bio)

• Mark Anderson

  2013-2014

  (Abbott)

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Undergraduate Students

• Sarah Sobol

  2020-2023

  MIT, Biological Engineering PhD Student

• Nathalie Boadi

  2020-2023

  Research Study Coordinator – Radiology at Northwestern University

• Rebeca Lion

  2021-2023

  Northwestern University, Biomedical Engineering Student

• Anika Gupta

  2022-2023

  Rice University, Synthetic Biology PhD Student

• Regina Fernandez

  2022-2023

  Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering PhD Student

• Joey Galindo

  2020-2022

  Princeton University, PhD Student

• Carol Vieira de Magalhaes

  2021-2022

  Stanford University, PhD Student

• David Lopez

  REU 2022

• Yejun Kim

  2019-2022

  University of Washington, PhD Student

• Rafael Torres

  2018-2022

  Medline Industries

• Skylar Ladson-Gary

  2017-2021

  NorthShore Research Institute

• Erik Bidstrup

  2017-2020

  Cornell University, Chemical Engineering PhD student

• Alysse DeFoe

  2018-2020

  CU Boulder, PhD Student

• Katherine Duncker

  2017-2020

  Murphy Scholar

  Duke University, PhD student

• Ashvita Ramesh

  2017-2020

  Murphy Scholar

  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, MD student

• Alex Wooldredge

  Summer 2019

  Buck Institute for Research on Aging

• Kim Phan Ngoc Hoang

  2018-2019

  Ohio State University, PhD Student

• Shaelyn Iver

  2019

  NU Bioscientist program

• Holly Ekas

  Summer 2018

  Northwestern University, Chemical and Biological Engineering, PhD Student

• Emily Roney

  2016-2018

  Abbvie

• Karen Hsu

  2015-2018

  Honors Thesis

  DMC Robotics

• Rachel Dubner

  2016-2018

  New York University School of Medicine, MD student

• Sam Davidson

  2015-2018

  California Institute of Technology, Bioengineering, PhD student

• Samantha Crowe

  2015-2018

  University of California-Berkeley, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, PhD student

• Tasfia Azim

  2016-2018

  Rice University, Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• William Grubbe

  2015-2017

  Northwestern University, Master’s Student

• Conor Nash

  2016-2017

  Qiagen

• Jake Heggestad

  2015-2017

  Honors Thesis

  Duke University, Biomedical Engineering, PhD student

• Madisen Rosztoczy

  2014-2016, Murphy Scholar

• Cindy Chen

  2015-2016

  Regeneron

• KC Anderson

  2014-2016

  Gingko Bioworks

• Natalia Majewska

  2014-2016

  John Hopkins University, Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• Ellen Zhuang

  2015, Murphy Scholar

  Procter & Gamble

• Emm Fulk

  2013-2015

  Rice Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Program, PhD student

• Matthew Amrofell

  2013-2015

  Washington University, Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• Zachary Lochmueller

  2014-2015

• Ashleigh Stoddart

  2013

• Mary Grace Weiss

  2013

• Osman Jamil

  2013-2014

  Stanford Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• Charlotte Mary ter Haar

  2013-2014

  Honors Thesis: “Exploring the orthogonality of the C. elegans mitochondrial translation system”

  Whitaker Fellow, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Medical School, University of California, Irvine

• Vinithra Rajagopalan

  2012-2013

  Works with

• Kyle Kim

  2012-2013

• Brett Owens

  2013

• Elizabeth Trumbull

  2011-2012

• Joey Knox

  2011

• Emily Masters

  2011-2013, Murphy Scholar

  Dow Chemical

• Christina Burghard

  2011-2013

  NIH, Post-baccalaureate researcher; PhD candidate, UCLA Bioinformatics

• Kirsten Swonger

  2010-2012

  VA Hospital in New York, NY, Tulane Chemical Engineering, Master’s student

• Ethan Altman

  2010

  A.T. Kearney

• Diana Lorenzini

  2010

  Accenture