Principal Investigator

Carl Denard, PhD
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
BS. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
​cdenard@ufl.edu

PhD Students

Samantha Martinusen
Chemical Engineering
BS, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Alabama
Project: High-throughput discovery, engineering, and characterization of protease modulators

Zahra (Athena) Ghiasi
Chemical Engineering
BS, Chemical Engineering
MS, Chemical Engineering

MS Students

Afifa Khan
Chemical Engineering
Project: Discovering and profiling novel orthogonal sortase-mediated ligations

Undergraduate Students

Spencer Serrano
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
McNair Scholar
Fernandez Family Scholar
Project: Directed evolution of an alpha-synuclein-degrading protease

Ethan Slaton
Chemical Engineering
UF Emerging Scholar
​Project: High-throughput discovery, engineering, and characterization of protease modulators

Paola Oliva
Chemical Engineering
Project: Continuous evolution of protein disaggregases

Cassidy Simas
Biomedical Engineering
​Project: High-throughput discovery, engineering, and characterization of protease modulators

Julia Besu
Biology
​​Project: Discovering and profiling novel orthogonal sortase-mediated ligations

Emily Miller
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Project: Engineering tandem surface display systems in yeast

Alumni

Jack Sharkey
Lauren Leisen, ChE
Sai Amirisetti, PhD in Electrical Engineering, UF
Abdul Kadli
​Erika Monte