Alanna schepartz biography of abraham

Alanna Schepartz is the T. Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

She and her research group are known for the creative application of chemical synthesis and logic to probe mechanism and catalyze discovery in both chemistry and biology. Her research has contributed to and shaped thinking in multiple areas, including the mechanisms of protein-DNA recognition and transcriptional activation; protein design and engineering and their application to synthetic biology; and the complex process by which chemical information is communicated across biological membranes.

She is widely recognized for the pioneering design of miniature proteins and b-peptide bundles, the first and only example of a protein-like architecture that lacks even a single a-amino acid. Current projects focus on (1) repurposing the ribosome to biosynthesize sequence-defined chemical polymers and pol