THE DENARD LAB AT UF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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Principal Investigator

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

PhD Students

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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

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

Undergraduate Students

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Spencer Serrano
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
McNair Scholar
Fernandez Family Scholar
Project: Directed evolution of an alpha-synuclein-degrading protease
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Ethan Slaton
Chemical Engineering
UF Emerging Scholar
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Project: High-throughput discovery, engineering, and characterization of protease modulators
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Paola Oliva
Chemical Engineering
Project: Continuous evolution of protein disaggregases
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Cassidy Simas
Biomedical Engineering
​Project: High-throughput discovery, engineering, and characterization of protease modulators
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Julia Besu
Biology
​​Project: Discovering and profiling novel orthogonal sortase-mediated ligations
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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
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