Our Team

Linna An, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

PostDoc University of Washington (Advisor: David Baker)

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Wilfred van der Donk)
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, Chemistry

Email: la72[at]rice.edu

Getting money, and hire people to spend the money in a way which is beneficial to the general public.

Wenbo Ning, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. University of Florida (Advisor: Jeffrey D. Rudolf)
B.S. Nanjing Tech University, Applied chemistry

Email: wn18[at]rice.edu

Enzyme design, biocatalysis

Yanapat Janthana

Graduate RA (He/Him)

B.S. University of Oregon, Biochemistry

Email: yj68[at]rice.edu

Model development

Hayden Stegall

Graduate RA

B.S. University of Texas at Austin, Biochemistry

Email: hs151[at]rice.edu

Peptide binders, polyketide synthase engineering

Fiona Wong

Undergraduate RA (she/her)

B.S. Rice University, Biosciences with a Biochemistry Concentration

Email: fw32[at]rice.edu

Tag free binder development for sex hormone monitoring

Anderson Widjaja

Undergraduate RA

B.S. Rice University, Music and Chemistry

Email: aw200[at]rice.edu

Neoantigen binder design

Zhiling Zhang

Summer Research Intern (she/her)

B.S. McGill University, Microbiology and Immunology

Email: zz185[at]rice.edu

Generating binders for Lynch's syndrome-associated antigens

Andrew Man

High School Student

School. Obra D. Tompkins High School

Email: am585[at]rice.edu

De novo protein design, RFD3 and AF3 Comparison

Karen Paco, Ph.D.

Research Fellow (she/her)

Ph.D. Keck Graduate Institute (Advisor: Larry Grill)
B.S. Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria, Biotechnology Engineering

Email: kyp3[at]rice.edu

Generative Models for Protein Design