Alan Su

Alan is a Chemical & Systems Biology PhD student in the Petrov and Fordyce labs (2024 - present). He is interested in how coding variation is shaped by the functional and structural architecture of proteins. Currently he is employing high-throughput microfluidic assays 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.