Avery Yang

Avery interested in coupling computational enzyme design with high-throughput microfluidic assays to understand the principles of engineering dynamics in proteins. In particular, she plans to use these methods to improve enzymes that catalyze challenging reactions such as carbon capture, nitrogen fixation, and plastic degradation. She worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Michelle Chang Lab, where she structurally characterized and engineered several Fe(II) aKG-dependent radical amino acid halogenases to understand their mechanism better and expand their substrate scope. She has a B.S. in Chemical Biology and a B.A. in music from the University of California Berkeley.