UNC Shadow A Scientist featured Odessa Goudy, a computational protein engineer, in a video that was published on March 21, 2022. Odessa is a fifth-year Biochemistry and Biophysics PhD candidate in the Kuhlman lab. She is one of many researchers highlighted in a series of videos targeted at high school students to learn more about research in a variety of disciplines. In the video, Odessa walked viewers through the process of designing a protein using Rosetta to the expression of the designer proteins in the laboratory.
Mikayla Feldbauer, a Molecular and Cellular Biophysics trainee in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology department, is another graduate student interested in improving the accessibility of structural biology. Mikayla recently highlighted FoldIt in her Pipettepen article, Here’s how you can get involved in scientific research!
Foldit is a game that allows players to move around amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, to satisfy certain criteria and make a design that would be stable if made in a lab. Researchers at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington plan to pick the best designs made by Foldit players and create them in their lab for various applications.
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