hengyuan – The Muir Lab

Jeremy Owen

Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Post-Doctoral Fellow Email Jeremy | Hometown: Washington DC, USA Jeremy obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Leonid Mirny and Jeremy England on basic questions in nonequilibrium …

Juner Zhang

Damon Runyon Post-Doctoral Fellow Email Juner | Hometown: Xian, China Juner obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Frances Arnold on engineering new-to-nature carbene transferases for selective C–H functionalization reactions. In the …

Jodi Venables

Administrative Assistant Email Jodi | Jodi received her Bachelors in chemistry from the University of Delaware and her Masters in Secondary Education from Holy Family University. She was a high school chemistry teacher for fifteen years, and prior to that, …

Benjamin Buchmuller

EMBO Post-Doctoral Fellow Email Benjamin | Hometown: Baden-Baden, Germany Ben received his doctorate in Chemical Biology from TU Dortmund University for his work with Daniel Summerer on making proteins to detect subtle epigenetic changes in the DNA double-strand. He is very …

Gabrielle Sudilovsky

Undergraduate Student In the Muir lab, Gabrielle is studying the cofactor scope of the acetyltransferase NatD in the context of cancer-associated histone mutations. Outside of lab, she loves figure skating, baking cookies, listening to music, and complaining to her friends …

Arianne Smith

Undergraduate Student With an interest in microbiology, Arianne is investigating the quorum sensing system of S. aureus. Utilizing improved proximity labeling techniques she hopes to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the agr system and widen the scope of potential …

Anushka Dheer

Undergraduate Student Anushka is interested in studying intein engineering with a focus on NrdJ-1. Outside of the lab, she enjoys singing, trying new cuisines, spending time with friends and family, and pretending she can dance.

Nicholas Tay

NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Post-Doctoral Fellow Email Nicholas | Hometown: Johor Baru, Malaysia Nicholas obtained his PhD in chemistry in 2019 with David Nicewicz at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did a short postdoctoral stint with …

Michelle Mitchener

Associate Research Scholar Email Michelle | Hometown: Troy, MI Michelle obtained her PhD in chemistry from Vanderbilt University where she worked with Larry Marnett to understand the allosteric regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 by two of its substrates. In the Muir lab, …

Cole Lazarus

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 3rd year Email Cole | Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania B.S., Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 2021 Cole obtained his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Delaware, where he worked in the lab of Prof. Zhihao Zhuang, developing …