Lab Alumni

Justin Ong

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2024
    • Thesis: Engineering Proteins for Cancer Applications using mRNA Display

Kaori Noridomi

  • Postdoc, 2022

William Evenson

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2021
    • Thesis: The Selective Targeting of Ras: A Tale of Kinetics, mRNA Display, and Vaccines

Golnaz Kamalinia

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2020

John Mac

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2019 (Co-advised with Dr. Pin Wang)

Lan Huong Lai

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2016
    • Thesis:

Aaron Nichols

  • Ph.D., Chemistry, 2016
    • Thesis: mRNA Display as a Method to Generate Stable Fibronectin Ligands for the Alpha 1 Subunit of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

Mehmet Çetin

  • Ph.D. Molecular and Computational Biology, 2015
    • Thesis: Generation of Disulfide-Free Antibody Mimetics Against the RAS Protein

Farzad Jalali–Yazdi

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2015
    • Thesis: Generation and Characterization of Peptide Theranostics by mRNA Display

Shannon Howell

  • Postdoc, 2015
  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2014
    • Thesis: Directed Evolution of High Affinity, Cyclic, Protease Resistant Peptides Using mRNA Display

Shuwei Li

  • Ph.D.
    • Thesis: mRNA Display – A Novel Combinatorial Peptide Library

Kuo-Chan Hung

  • Ph.D. Genetic, Molecular, and Cellular Biology, 2012
    • Thesis: Developing Peptide and Antibody-Mimetic Ligands for the Cell Surface Receptor Beta2AR and DC-SIGN

Stephen Fiacco

  • Postdoc
  • Ph.D., Chemistry, 2011
    • Thesis: Directed Evolution Provides Stable, Cell Permeable, Efficacious, and Orally Bioavailable Peptidomimetics

Terry Takahashi

  • Postdoc, 2010
  • Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2005 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: In Vitro Selection of RNA Binding Peptides

Anders Olson

  • Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2008 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: mRNA Display Selection Using a Combinatorial 10FnIII Protein Library for Detection and Modulation of Cellular Processes

Steven Millward

  • Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2007 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: The Design, Synthesis, and Evolution of Macrocyclic mRNA Display Libraries Containing Unnatural Amino Acids

Ryan Austin

  • Ph.D. 2007 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: Solving Molecular Recognition Problems with Evolvable Peptide Motifs

Christine Ueda

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2006 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis:

William W. Ja

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2005 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: Peptidde Modulators of G Protein Signaling

Xin Qi

  • Ph.D. Bioorganic, 2005 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation to Rewrite the Genetic Code and RNA-peptide Interactions

Tianbing Xia

  • Postdoc, 2005 (California Institute of Technology)

Shelley R. Starck

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, 2004 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: Exploring the Proteome: Insights into Eukaryotic Protein Synthesis Using Puromycin Analogs

Adam Frankel

  • Postdoc, 2004 (California Institute of Technology)

Jinsong Ren

  • Postdoc

Niki Zacharias

  • Postdoc, 2003 (California Institute of Technology)

Todd Thorsen

  • Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2002 (California Institute of Technology)
    • Thesis: Microfluidic Technologies for High-Throughput Screening Applications

Quan Chen

  • Postdoc