- Vandenberghe Lab > Eric Zinn, BA
Eric Zinn, BA
Systems Biology Graduate Student
Education: B.A. – Biological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2008-2012
Research Project: Engineering novel AAV Capsids for Gene Therapy; Investigating nature of amino acid interactions in the AAV capsid using evolution; Multiplexed analysis of protein libraries; In silico prediction of useful AAV mutants.
Research Interest: Allowing theory, computation, and experiment to influence each other in pursuit of scientific discovery. Also, I like pretty charts.
Career Ambition: Convince a benevolent billionaire to fund moon-shot projects regarding synthetic life
Membership: AAAS, ASV, ASGCT
Awards and Honors: C.J. Luther Scholar 2011-2012, J.G. Nolan Scholar, 2010-2012, Herchel Smith Graduate Fellowship, 2015-Present
Vandenberghe Lab Team
Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD
Director
Christopher Tipper, Ph.D.
Director of Discovery Research
Pauline Schmit
PhD Candidate, BBS Program, Harvard
Weiwei Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Xia Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Michael Florea
PhD Candidate
Julio Sanmiguel
Senior Research Technologist
Allegra Fieldsend
Senior Research Technologist
Reynette Estelien
Research Assistant
Cheikh Diop
Research Assistant
Yanhe (Crane) Wen
Bioinformatician (MS)
Erin Merkel
Research Assistant
Urja Bhatt
Research Assistant
Nerea Zabaleta Lasarte PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Polina Freitas, Ph.D
Laboratory Manager
Aisling Ryan
Program Coordinator
Anil Chekuri, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow