Postdoctoral Associates

• Anne Bunner

  2010-2012

  Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

• Xinhao Ye

  2012

  Pfizer

• D. Calvin Harris

  2011-2013

  UTHSC College of Dentistry

• Arnaz Ranji

  2011-2013

  Program Head, KIC UnivAssist India

• Seok Hoon Hong

  2011-2015

  Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor

• Javin Oza

  2012-2015

  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State University At San Luis Obispo, Assistant Professor

• Filippo Caschera

  2014-2015

  Nextdot

• Yong-Chan Kwon

  2012-2017

  Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor

• James Kath

  2015-2017

  Abbvie

• Rui Gan

  2010-2017

  Broad Institute

• Jian Li

  2013-2017

  School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Assistant Professor

• Markus Jeschek

  2019

  ETH Zurich, Group Leader

• Michael Hammerling

  2016-2021

  Pandemic Response Labs

• Joon Lee

  2016-2021

  POSTECH, Korea, Assistant Professor

Graduate Students

• Jasmine Hershewe

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  9/1/2016-12/1/2020

  Codex DNA

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

• Weston Kightlinger

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2015-6/30/2020

  Swiftscale Biologics

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

• Anne d’Aquino

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  6/1/2014-12/1/2019

  Postdoctoral Fellow with Elizabeth Sattely at Stanford University

  Thesis title: “Studying and Engineering the E. coli 70S Ribosome in vivo and in vitro for the Synthesis of Abiological Polymers”

• Jessica Stark

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2014-9/30/2019

  Postdoctoral Fellow with Carolyn Bertozzi at Stanford University

  Thesis title: “Cell-free Technologies for On-demand Glycoprotein Biomanufacturing and Hands-on Biology Education”

• Benjamin Des Soye

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  5/1/2013-12/31/2018

  Postdoctoral Fellow with Neil Kelleher in the Proteomics Center of Excellence

  Thesis title: “Cell-free Platforms for Synthesis of Non-standard Polypeptides in vitro.”

• Quentin Dudley

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2013-9/31/2017

  Postdoctoral Associate with Sarah O’Connor and Nicola Patron at the John Innis Center and the Earlham Institute

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

• Rey Martin

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2013-8/31/2017

  DuPont

  Thesis title: “Establishing Novel Cell-free Platforms for the Synthesis of Protein-based Biologics.”

• Erik Carlson

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2011-7/31/2017

  Postdoctoral Associate with Beth Sattely, Stanford University

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

• Adam Hockenberry

  Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences

  Jointly advised with Luis Amaral

  6/1/2011-6/1/2017

  Postdoctoral Associate with Claus Wilke, The University of Texas at Austin

  Thesis title: “Sequence determinants of translation efficiency.”

• Jessica Perez

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2012-12/31/2016

  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

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2012-8/31/2016

  Gingko Bioworks

  Thesis title: “Establishment of a System for Small Molecule Synthesis by Crude Lysates of Escherichia Coli”

• Jennifer Schoborg

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2012-8/31/2016

  Pfizer

  Thesis title: “Development and Application of Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Platforms for Biotherapeutic Proteins”

• Yi Liu

  Medical Scientist Training Program

  9/1/2012-12/31/2015

  Feinberg School of Medicine

  Thesis title: “In vitro synthesis and evolution of Escherichia coli ribosomes.”

• Brian Fritz

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2010-12/31/2014

  Moderna Therapeutics

  Thesis title: “In vitro synthesis and evolution of Escherichia coli ribosomes.”

• Charles ‘Eric’ Hodgman

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

  1/1/2010-3/31/2014

  Bristol Myers Squibb

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

Master’s Students

• Andrea Engel

  M.Sc. 2010

  LanzaTech

• Eric Tseng

  M.Sc. 2010

  Abbott

• Richard Bellin

  M.Sc. 2011

  Abbvie

• Eric Van Groll

  M.Sc. 2011

  Ohmx

• Mark Anderson

  M.Sc. 2012, Research Technician 2012-2014

  Abbott

• Alaksh Choudhury

  M.Sc. 2014

  University of Colorado, PhD student

• Oliver Weisser

  M.Sc. 2014

  Harvard Business School, MBA student

• Jasmine Hershwe

  M.Sc. 2015

  Jewett Lab

• He “Justin” Wang

  M.Sc. 2016

  GreenLight Biosciences

• Dubby Wiseman

  M.Sc. 2017

  Genentech

• William Grubbe

  M.Sc. 2018

  University of Chicago, IME, PhD student

• Luca Schulz

  M.Sc.

  ETH Zürich

• Danielle Yoesep

  M.Sc. 2018

  Swiftscale Biologics

Undergraduate Students

• Diana Lorenzini

  2010

  Accenture

• Ethan Altman

  2010

  A.T. Kearney

• Kirsten Swonger

  2010-2012

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

• Christina Burghard

  2011-2013

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

• Emily Masters

  2011-2013, Murphy Scholar

  Dow Chemical

• Joey Knox

  2011

• Elizabeth Trumbull

  2011-2012

• Brett Owens

  2013

• Kyle Kim

  2012-2013

• Vinithra Rajagopalan

  2012-2013

  Works with

• 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

• Osman Jamil

  2013-2014

  Stanford Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• Mary Grace Weiss

  2013

• Ashleigh Stoddart

  2013

• Zachary Lochmueller

  2014-2015

• Matthew Amrofell

  2013-2015

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

• Emm Fulk

  2013-2015

  Rice Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Program, PhD student

• Ellen Zhuang

  2015, Murphy Scholar

• Natalia Majewska

  2014-2016

  John Hopkins University, Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• KC Anderson

  2014-2016

  Gingko Bioworks

• Cindy Chen

  2015-2016

  Regeneron

• Madisen Rosztoczy

  2014-2016, Murphy Scholar

• Jake Heggestad

  2015-2017

  Honors Thesis

  Duke University, Biomedical Engineering, PhD student

• Conor Nash

  2016-2017

• William Grubbe

  2015-2017

  Northwestern University, Master’s Student

• Tasfia Azim

  2016-2018

  Rice University, Chemical Engineering, PhD student

• Samantha Crowe

  2015-2018

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

• Sam Davidson

  2015-2018

  California Institute of Technology, Bioengineering, PhD student

• Rachel Dubner

  2016-2018

  New York University School of Medicine, MD student

• Karen Hsu

  2015-2018

  Honors Thesis

  DMC Robotics

• Emily Roney

  2016-2018

  Abbvie

• Holly Ekas

  Summer 2018

• Shaelyn Iver

  2019

  NU Bioscientist program

• Kim Phan Ngoc Hoang

  2018-2019

  Ohio State University, PhD Student

• Alex Wooldredge

  Summer 2019

• Ashvita Ramesh

  2017-2020

  Murphy Scholar

  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, MD student

• Katherine Duncker

  2017-2020

  Murphy Scholar

  Duke University, PhD student

• Alysse DeFoe

  2018-2020

• Erik Bidstrup

  2017-2020

  Cornell University, PhD student in Chemical Engineering