Barbara Dul

Lab Manager / Senior Researcher   Email Barbara | Barbara was born and bred in north Jersey but wanted to see the world.  So she ventured far from home and attended the University of Scranton in PA for her BS …

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Aishan Zhao

Post-Doctoral Researcher Email Aishan | Hails from: China B.S. of Chemistry, Peking University, 2012 Aishan was a graduate student in Muir lab, studying the agr Quorum Sensing system in S. aureus. She’s now wrapping up her project identifying the key …

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Hai Dao

Post-Doctoral Researcher Email Hai | Hometown: Nghe An, Vietnam Hai received his B.S. and M.S. in chemistry from the University of Tokyo, and his Ph.D. from the Scripps Research Institute under the supervision of Professor Phil Baran. Hai discovered that …

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Antony Burton

Post-Doctoral Researcher Email Antony | Hometown: Ipswich, UK Antony obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol in 2015 working with Dek Woolfson on the design and functional evaluation of novel protein folds. In the Muir lab, he …

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Katharine Diehl

Associate Research Scholar Email Katharine | Hometown: Augusta, GA Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin Katharine works on employing chemical biology tools to investigate mechanisms by which oncohistone mutations can be “detoxified” as a way to …

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John David (JD) Bagert

Post-Doctoral Researcher Email John | Hometown: born and raised in New Orleans BS from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore JD performed his doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of David Tirrell, where he developed and …

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Robert Thompson

Research Scholar Email Robert | Hometown: Blayney, NSW Australia PhD, University of Sydney, 2014, Chemistry Rob is trying to understand the various roles of chromatin architectural proteins using designer chromatin arrays. Outside of the lab, Rob enjoys perfecting his family’s …

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Stephen (Qian) Xie

Post-Doctoral Researcher Email Stephen | Hometown: Nanjing, China PhD, Iowa State University Stephen finds it cool to understand the code bacteria use for communicating among themselves (quorum sensing signaling) and then hack into their system. You might find Stephen singing …

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Jeffrey Bos

Post-Doctoral Researcher Email Jeffrey | Jeffrey is from the Netherlands and obtained his master and PhD from the University of Groningen under the guidance of Prof. Gerard Roelfes. There he worked on the development and construction of artificial metalloenzymes. In …

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Felix Wojcik

Post-Doctoral Fellow Email Felix Hometown: Wieren, Germany PhD, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 2014, Chemistry Felix is using designer chromatin to study recently discovered posttranslational marks and their interplay with more traditional histone marks such as ubiquitination, methylation …

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