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Professional Title:
Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology
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Research Interests:
- Atomic-scale mechanisms of "molecular thermometers" that allow living systems to sense and respond to temperature
- Method development for structural biology and biophysics, with an emphasis on X-ray crystallography