Sania received acceptance to graduate programs at UW-Madison, Northwestern, CU-Boulder and University of Michigan.  She is doing her graduate work in the Biological Chemistry PIBS program at the University of Michigan Medical school.

graduated May 2024, was accepted into graduate programs at Scripts and Johns Hopkins.  He will be attending graduate school at Johns Hopkins studying Chemistry.

graduated May 2024 and plans to pursue a job in industry. He is a co-author on published manuscripts.

Scott Horowitz first became interested in molecular structure and dynamics as an undergraduate student looking for a way to understand the biological world from the most basic building blocks of physics and chemistry. In his doctoral work, Scott investigated the role of unconventional hydrogen bonds in S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methylation, providing evidence not only for their existence but also their specific biological roles and importance in enzyme function.

As a member of the Bardwell laboratory, Scott is continuing to take an atomistic approach to studying biology, trying to understand the details of chaperone function using various structural biology techniques. In his spare time, Scott enjoys singing, listening, reading, and talking about music, and playing golf.

Listen to Scott's interview on NPR's Marketplace Tech.

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Changhan earned his Ph.D. degree at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2012. During his Ph.D. thesis, he characterized the regulatory mechanism to respond reactive electrophilic species (RES) in Escherichia coli. Afterwards, he moved to Karolinska Institute in Sweden as a postdoc and expended his research area to protein quality control system in a key opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Changhan joined Bardwell lab in 2017 and keeps his deep interest to protein folding and proteostasis. He loves to travel around the world and watch movies.

Hyun-hee obtained her Ph.D at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, where she worked on yeast transcription mechansms based on epigenetics. She moved to the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and studied multicellular behavior in enterobacteriaceae. In the Bardwell lab, she is focusing on a neurodegenerative disorder in yeast model. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, making crafts and playing games.

Serena is an Italian Ph.D. student at Sapienza - University of Rome. Her main scientific interests are in fields of structural biology and molecular medicine. Her Ph.D. work is focused on studying structure-function relationship of proteins involved in microbial infections, in particular by using X-ray crystallography. In the Bardwell lab she is interested in the structural aspects of chaperone-assisted protein folding. Outside the lab, she enjoys doing sports, travelling and reading, as well as arts and music.

Agnes studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Potsdam. After she finished her Master’s thesis in the field of analytically biochemistry, she joined the Bardwell lab for a one-year internship in April 2014. Currently she works on chaperone characterization. In her spare time, Agnes likes to discover new and fun activities, spend time with her friends, travel, participate in sports, and listen to live music.

Thi Mai Phuong studies Chemistry at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. In her bachelor thesis she optimized the substrate specificity of amyloid building catalysts to hydrolyze aromatic nitrophenole esters. In September 2017 Thi Mai Phuong joined the Bardwell Lab for a 4-month internship to characterize the structure and functionality of OsmY. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, hiking and watching movies.

Franziska is a visiting scholar from Germany.

Sumin is a first year graduate student doing a fall rotation in the Bardwell lab. She studied Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then worked as a research technician for two years doing Alzheimer's-related research. In her spare time, she likes to explore new restaurants, bars, and events with friends, cook, and play or listen to music.

May joined the Bardwell lab in November 2015, after working at the University of Michigan for nearly 20 years.  She is a proud mother and soon-to-be grandmother, who enjoys gardening, shopping, and spending time with family.

Molly attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate, earning degrees in Evolutionary Anthropology and German.  While studying she worked in genetics labs, and after graduating in May 2014 she worked at Pfizer for a short time before joining the Bardwell lab in April 2015.  Working as a lab manager has offered her a chance to use her affinity for organizing and managing to help further scientific discovery.  In her spare time, Molly enjoys camping, cooking, and her pet parrots.

Jarrett joined the lab in Summer 2015 as a rising junior. He is currently majoring in Chemical Engineering and plans to work in industry upon graduating. Jarrett is from Bradenton, Florida and spends his free time playing soccer, hanging out with friends, and watching Michigan football.

Darin Wong is a rising junior majoring in Program in the Environment. He has a passion for marine and freshwater conservation and hopes to become a marine biologist. He enjoys playing sports and running outdoors, lifting, making music, and reading.

Metasebia is a senior pursuing Biochemistry major and Economics minor at Smith College in Northampton, MA. She first became interested in protein folding and stability during her first year when she worked at Smith College as a research assistant studying stabilizing effects of metalloprophyrins on myoglobin derivatives. During 2013 summer, she worked at the University of Leipzig testing the abilities of a plant extract from Ethiopia called Cathinone to cause apoptosis to Lung carcinoma cells. She recently joined Bardwell lab as an HHMI, EXROP student studying the chaperone protein called spy and its ability to bind Zn under the supervision of Scott Horowitz. She aspires to pursue a Ph.D in the future . She enjoys reading, sports, and travelling.

Serife or Sherry (nickname which her study colleagues had given her) began her studies in biology with a focus on structural biology/biophysics at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany. She joined the Bardwell lab to finish her Master program by doing her Master thesis. Because she understands herself as a structural biologist, working with chaperons was highly interesting to her. At the moment she works under the supervision of Dr. Scott Horowitz on HdeA a periplasmic E.coli chaperone. Her aim is to characterize a constantly active mutant of HdeA biophysically and structurally.

In her Spare time, Serife loves to join a dance studio near the lab where she is practicing Hip-Hop and Jazz dance. Besides this she enjoy a diversity of activities starting at visiting operas through to doing extreme sports. She is thankful to Prof. Dieter Willbold who makes it possible for her to join the Bardwell lab. She also wants to thank Dr. Matthias Stoldt, Dr. Justin Lecher and Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer, her former supervisors for supporting her. Last but not least, she also want to thank Prof. Bardwell to letting her in Ann Arbor and all her great colleagues in the Bardwell lab.

Tobias is studying Biotechnology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany. He joined the Bardwell Lab in July 2007 to work on his diploma thesis. He is currently trying to develop an E. coli expression system capable of assessing the folding capabilities of different model proteins. Outside the lab he enjoys hanging out and watching movies with friends as well as playing badminton and volleyball.

Austin joined the lab as a freshman in Fall 2011. He worked for two years as a lab assistant before beginning research under the supervision of Dr. Chris Lennon in October, 2013. Austin is majoring in Biochemistry and hopes to attend dental school after his undergraduate studies. His hometown of Traverse City, Michigan instilled a love for the outdoors, which he retains in Ann Arbor. Outside of the lab Austin enjoys hiking, cycling, and visiting National Parks.

Brianne is a third year PhD student in the Cell and Molecular Biology program. Currently she works on molecular chaperone discovery. She is originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan and received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Grand Valley State University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, baking, biking, crocheting, and spending time with friends.

Chris was a postdoctoral researcher in the Bardwell lab who joined the group in May of 2013 after finishing his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main project is focused on the discovery of unknown chaperones using a direct genetic selection for improved protein folding similar to that previously used to uncover Spy (Quan et al. 2011). When not in lab, Chris likes to organize and participate in dance parties, tickle fights, Spongebob Squarepants marathons, ice cream eating contests... and other adventures with his wife and two kids.
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[expand title="Publications"]Lennon CW, Lemmer KC, Irons JL, Sellman MI, Donohue TJ, Gourse RL, Ross W. (January 2014) A Rhodobacter sphaeroides protein mechanistically similar toEscherichia coli DksA regulates photosynthetic growth. mBio. 5(3):e01105-14.
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Lennon CW, Ross W, Martin-Tumasz S, Toulokhonov I, Vrentas CE, Rutherford ST, Lee JH, Butcher, Gourse RL. (January 2012) Genes and Development .26:2634-26. PMCID: PMC3521624.
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Lee JH, Lennon CW, Ross W, Gourse RL. (January 2012) Role of the coiled-coil tip of Escherichia coli DksA in promoter control. . Journal of Molecular Biology . 416:503-17. PMCID: PMC3288215.[/expand]

Julia is an undergrad student of Molecular Medicine at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She first heard of chaperones in her first semester nearly two years ago and directly got interested in it. Hence she is very happy to be able to join the Bardwell lab for a 10-week internship in cooperation with the DAAD RISE program. Therefore, she wants to thank everyone who made this possible, especially Prof. Bardwell. Currently she is working with biosensors in order to observe protein stability and–if she is lucky–new chaperones may be detected. In her spare time, she loves being outdoors, as well as travelling. Moreover, she likes to spend her time with friends and playing soccer.

Stefan studied biochemistry at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle/Saale in Germany. He did his Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Hauke Lilie in the lab of Rainer Rudolph. There he worked on the development of a new, non-viral vector system for gene therapy based on an engineered and recombinant produced viral coat protein. He joined the Bardwell lab in June 2003 to work on DsbA, an oxidorecuctase in the periplasm of E.coli. His main task is to elucidate how DsbA binds substrates and DsbB and how DsbA distinguishes between these two proteins. In order to do this, he combines genetic approaches as well as protein chemistry and structural biology. Recently Stefan discovered that jumping out of airplanes from 13,000 feet AGL is a way to spend time outside of the lab. Other than that he likes every kind of sport where a ball is involved and many different outdoor activities.
 
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Foit L, Mueller-Schickert A, Mamathambika BS, Gleiter S, Klaska CL, Ren G, Bardwell JC. (2011) Genetic selection for enhanced folding in vivo targets the Cys14-Cys38 disulfide bond in bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor. Antioxid Redox Signal. 14(6):973-84. (Pubmed)
 
Gleiter S, Bardwell JC.. (2008) Disulfide bond isomerization in prokaryotes. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1783(4):530-4. (Pubmed)
 
Tapley TL, Eichner T, Gleiter S, Ballou DP, Bardwell JC. (2007) Kinetic characterization of the disulfide bond-forming enzyme DsbB. J Biol Chem. 282(14):10263-71. (Pubmed)
 
Goulding CW, Apostol MI, Gleiter S, Parseghian A, Bardwell J, Gennaro M, and Eisenberg D. (2003) Gram-positive DsbE proteins function differently from gram-negative DsbE homologs: A structure function analysis of DsbE from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Biol. Chem. 2004 Jan 30;279(5):3516-24. Epub 2003 Nov 3. (Pubmed) [/expand]

Lananh joined the Bardwell / Jakob Labs as a workstudy Lab Assistant in 2012. She’s a Chemical Engineering major.

Raoul is a Junior majoring in Biochemistry at the University of Michigan. He is originally from Marseille, France. Raoul joined our lab in Winter 2012 as a laboratory assistant. In the beginning of October 2012, he became a research assistant under the supervision of Philip Koldewey. His main interests are protein kinetics, structural biology and protein engineering. He is also the vice-president of the Michigan Synthetic Biology Team. He aspires to join a graduate program and earn a PhD.

Jessica graduated from The University of Michigan with her Bachelor of Science in May of 2015 with a double concentration in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN) and Women's Studies. During the spring and summer of this year, she is working at the Bardwell lab as a Research Associate on a project about algae, diatoms, and pollution. She will be leaving Ann Arbor in the fall and moving to Baltimore, MD for graduate school at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she will be pursuing her Master of Science in Public Health through the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health. In her free time, Jessica enjoys rock climbing, Netflix, and creative writing.

Antje studied biology at the University in Tuebingen, Germany, where she graduated with a major in cell biology/immunology. After she finished her diploma thesis at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, she joined the Bardwell lab in September 2009 to work on her PhD thesis.

Currently she is working on developing a genetic system which allows studying protein folding in vivo.

In her spare time Antje enjoys playing ice hockey, plays the guitar and loves the outdoors.

James has been working in the Bardwell / Jakob Labs as a workstudy Lab Assistant since 2013.