Alan Su Joins the Lab!

Super excited to welcome Alan to the lab! He is a Chemical & Systems Biology PhD student jointly advised in the Petrov and Fordyce labs. He will use our ultarprecise measurements of constraint and adaptation in Drosophila and high-throughput microfluidic assays from Polly’s lab to systematically measure the fine biochemical changes produced by natural variation in Drosophila proteins. Before grad school, Alan worked at a biotech startup, Octant, engineering synthetic mammalian systems for deep mutation scanning. Prior to that, he studied biophysics and mathematical finance with a minor in chemistry at Duke and developed methods to study mechanically-responsive genomic enhancers in Charlie Gersbach’s lab.